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Daniel Silliman

Daniel Silliman is a U.S. historian. A Lilly Fellow at Valparaiso University, he writes about religion in American culture.

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David Carr's Secret to Honesty: Sin

David Carr didn’t want you to trust him. It’s a funny thing about journalists and trust. Skepticism is a point of professional pride. “If your mother says she loves you,” the j-school saying goes,…
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Why Don't Republicans Want to Allow Pastors to Endorse from Pulpit?

One of the first things North Carolina congressmen Walter Jones, Jr. did on the very first day of the 114th US Congress was file House Resolution 153. The bill would repeal a law that keeps churches…
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Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

No other end-of-year list can hope to offer such profound juxtapositions: a groundbreaking female Mennonite pastor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader…
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