Daniel Silliman


Oct 19, 2014

Religious choices

Religious choices
By Daniel Silliman at 1:36 PM
Labels: Christian music, church, German Reformed Church, living in Germany, my life, organ
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E-mail:

dsilliman@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

Twitter:

@danielsilliman

News

  • Hillary Clinton's Christian America
  • In church, Clinton talks about how her faith helped her through husband's infidelity
  • Tennessee restricts how religion can be taught in schools
  • Will the "nones" become a voting bloc?
  • How 11 evangelical pastors preach politics
  • Homeschooling success story questions homeschooling success stories
  • Better birth control behind decline of unplanned pregnancies (and abortions)
  • Mich. Catholic Church to expand employer health care to include same-sex couples without violating church teaching
  • Donald Trump and a brief history of not-quite-believable pro-life conversions
  • What evangelism looks like on New York's Upper West Side
  • Nancy Reagan's Presbyterian church
  • For sale: Catholic beard balm
  • The bestselling Bibles of 2015
  • The bestselling Christian fiction of 2015
Daniel Silliman teaches American religion and culture at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include American evangelicals and pentecostals, book history, atheism and secularity.

Silliman has a B.A. in philosophy from Hillsdale College and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Tübingen. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation at Heidelberg on the representations of belief in contemporary evangelical fiction.

He previously worked as a reporter for a metro Atlanta newspaper, where he wrote about crime.

He has lived in Germany with his wife since 2008.

Notable posts

The 'Left Behind' audience

Jackson Cuidon read the Left Behind books as a kid.

Sam Hose's Christian America

Sam Hose was burned to death in Georgia on a Sunday.

The 1st Pentecostal scandal

In 1907 in San Antonio, in the heat of July and Pentecostal revival, Charles Fox Parham was arrested.

Francis Schaeffer and the death of Baby Doe

Francis Schaeffer's 1982 message to the Presbyterians at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was pretty simple: the philosophy of modern society is humanism, and humanism means death.

Links

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  • Gov. track
  • Heeb
  • Hemant Mehta
  • Hit Coffee
  • Huffpo: Religion
  • Imaginative Conservative
  • Immanent Frame
  • In These Times
  • Inside Higher Ed
  • Jacobin
  • Jared C. Wilson
  • Jason Tatum
  • Justin Taylor
  • Killing the Buddha
  • LARB
  • LifeWays
  • Mark Betcher
  • Mark Bowles
  • Menno World
  • Mere Orthodoxy
  • Mike Duran
  • Millions
  • Mockingbird
  • NSRN
  • Nation
  • National Review
  • New York Times
  • Novel Crossing
  • On Being
  • Open Culture
  • Ordinary Gentlemen
  • Ortho- & Heterodoxy
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  • Partially Examined Life
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  • Patheos
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  • Pew Sitter
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  • Religion Clause
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  • Revealer
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  • S-USIH
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  • Science & Religion
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