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Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

By Chrissy Stroop

…Theocrats and kleptocrats make for natural bedfellows as I’ve argued in Playboy and elsewhere. Despite all the hand wringing and pearl clutching of pundits supposedly seeking to understand how Christians can support such a corrupt and sinful president, there’s no contradiction whatsoever in the behavior of these authoritarian believers whose version of Christianity is intertwined with white supremacist patriarchy. When it comes to programs for tho…

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11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You

By Evan Derkacz

…recount/status/1324200240694648834 6. For the president in your life utterly mystified by the fact that his leads began to “magically disappear” overnight: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1324006465389142016 7. Ouch: https://twitter.com/MattOswaltVA/status/1324224471713030144 8. Gomer Pyle with the low-information leadership: https://twitter.com/GorillaMamaWho/status/1324180525456777216 9. Yeah, okay… https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/sta…

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10 Pro-LGBT #ChristiansVote Tweets From Anti-Gay, Pro-Trump Hashtag Hijack

By Sunnivie Brydum

…atus/794147976918642691 4) https://twitter.com/revdrjanet/status/795034285174620160   5) https://twitter.com/umjeremy/status/793906267274125312 6) https://twitter.com/leahrullman/status/795360690307530752 7) https://twitter.com/EvelynShoop/status/795362779733426176 8) https://twitter.com/stvp68/status/795117474140323840 9) https://twitter.com/kmarnold/status/795230676865974273 10) https://twitter.com/lgbtqtaskforce/status/795001209623027712  …

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The 11 Best #RealClergyBios Tweets

By Anita Little

…but if we dig a little deeper into their lives, it’s not so shiny and happy. My friend, Elizabeth Grasham (@elizabethlgr), helped originate this hashtag with #realpreacherbios in a closed Facebook group for young clergywomen. Did you expect it to take off like it did? It’s amazing that it became such an expression of vulnerability and honesty. The more people tweeted their bios and experiences, the safer the space became for others to enter into…

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“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…are now found again. In his 1995 autobiography, Rebel With a Cause: Finally Comfortable Being Graham, Franklin Graham recalls his rebellious youth, including wild times “drinking the beer, and going out to the parties, and running around with different girlfriends.” One night, alone in a hotel room while traveling abroad, Graham experienced a religious epiphany. “That night instead of going to the bar for a couple of beers,” he writes, “I found m…

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Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

By Kaya Oakes

…ng forward to a sleepless night of encyclical reading followed by the bleary-eyed composition of hot takes and appearances on talk shows and radio on the morning of June 18, when the Vatican officially released it to the world. Then something weird happened: the encyclical leaked three days early. The journalist who wrote an introduction to the leaked draft in the Italian magazine L’Espresso, Sandro Magister, quickly was stripped of his Vatican pr…

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Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

By Chrissy Stroop

…h of his book. But haven’t you ever heard evangelicals cite Rahab to justify lying to ‘the enemy?’” Other religious studies scholars weighed in with related insights on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidFeltmate/status/1417140750937174027?s=20 https://twitter.com/PennyEMN/status/1417162782802432002?s=20 https://twitter.com/ntammerman/status/1417134430066462722?s=20 Bradley Onishi, a popular exvangelical podcaster and associate professor of religio…

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Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…cing on the cake. According to Newsweek, Strandberg’s Web site, RaptureReady.com, which “track[s] current events and link[s] them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his status as ‘the eBay of prophecy,’ the best source online for predictions and calculations concerning the end of the world.” In addition to Rapture Ready Wallpaper, and a number of ads for books (Coincidences in the Bible and in Biblical Hebrewby Haim Shore), a very scary…

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“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

By Anita Little

…ore than a political identity with a pinch of impotent cultural Christianity. You’ve become a category for pollsters rather than pastors, a word of exclusion rather than embrace…What was admirable about your name has been buried, crushed under the weight of 60 million votes. I am no less committed to Christ, his gospel, and his church, but I can no longer be called an evangelical. https://twitter.com/d_l_mayfield/status/796229392112332800 https://…

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Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…Bloomberg, and Steyer bringing up the rear. But did secular Americans really come out the big winners of last night’s debate? Before treating this answer as the gospel truth, it’s important to consider that there are times when, given the power and influence of religion in both domestic politics and geopolitics in today’s world, politicians’ failure to mention religion may be harmful. And no, I don’t mean they should say “God bless America” or oth…

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