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Article Neither Hidden nor Dead This symposium reconsiders 'Time' magazine's landmark cover on the "death of God," sixty years later. By Cathleen Kaveny September 9, 2026 History Religion Theology
Article When God Died We remember Time’s Holy Week cover of 1966 less for the story itself than for the three words on the cover: “Is God Dead?” By Kenneth L. Woodward September 9, 2026 Theology History Religion Culture
Article Generalizing with Precision In 1960s America, God was not dead or hidden. So why did Time's "Toward a Hidden God" touch a nerve? By Paul Elie September 9, 2026 History Culture Religion
Article Green Shoots? Religious belief has migrated away from public institutional life and toward the interior, the personal, the chosen. By Brandon Vaidyanathan September 7, 2026 U.S. Catholicism Secularism and Modernity Religion
Article The Thrill of the Chase The fundamentalist Christian tendency to claim full knowledge of God has not protected religion. Instead, it has contributed to its decline. By R. Scott Appleby September 7, 2026 U.S. Catholicism Secularism and Modernity Theology
Article The End of Religion and the Death of God For Christians, the death of God in Jesus Christ is not a disaster, but an event of God’s saving and creative power. By Michael Welker August 31, 2026 Theology Religion History
Article A Glaring Absence Time's article on the death of God got reactions, but Black and Jewish theologians would have asked (and answered) different questions. By Susannah Heschel August 31, 2026