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      Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
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      It’s Time to Put an End to Virginia’s Racist Death Penalty
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      We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
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      As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
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      Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point
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      It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
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      We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
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      Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
    • ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
      ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
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Brian Kaylor

Brian Kaylor is a Baptist minister, doctoral candidate in communication at the University of Missouri, and author of For God's Sake, Shut Up!.

Politics/LawJuly 3, 2009

American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus

By Brian Kaylor

McCain’s repudiation of Hagee has made news while a remark from a Georgia Republican has gone unnoticed…

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJuly 3, 2009

RDPulpit: Stop Playing Politics with Prayer

By Brian Kaylor

Missouri Republicans push a meaningless Constitutional amendment in an effort to increase religious right voter turnout.

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Politics/LawSeptember 23, 2008

Religious Right Prays for “Good Rain“ Over Obama

By Brian Kaylor

If Focus on the Family isn’t praying for rain to quench the thirst and grow the food of drought-threatened regions what exactly are they praying for?

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