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      Times’ Link of NOI With Capitol Killer is Based on Flawed Comparison Between Rightwing Christian Nationalism and Black Religious Nationalism
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      Have White Evangelicals Finally Lost Control of the Narrative?
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      As a Minister I’m Fed Up With Anti-Trans Legislation Written by Adults to Pick on Children, All in the Name of Religious Freedom
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      Battle of Antisemitism Definitions is Actually a Proxy War For Criticism of Israel
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      Arkansas’s Creationism Bill is Also Motivated by Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry
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    • As a Minister I’m Fed Up With Anti-Trans Legislation Written by Adults to Pick on Children, All in the Name of Religious Freedom
      As a Minister I’m Fed Up With Anti-Trans Legislation Written by Adults to Pick on Children, All in the Name of Religious Freedom
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      Alabama Yoga Debate Focusing on the Wrong Question
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      Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Spouts Christian Nationalism Defending Racist Voter Suppression
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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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      I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’
    • How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture
      How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture
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Darnell Moore

Darnell L. Moore is a writer and activist. He is Co-Managing Editor, along with Tamura Lomax and Monica Casper, of The Feminist Wire. He is presently a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. 

Politics/Law, StoriesMarch 21, 2014

When Religious Freedom Should Be Restricted

By Darnell Moore

A question for same sex marriage supporters who also support the right to discriminate.

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Guest Bloggers**, RD Blog, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesMarch 10, 2014

US Evangelicals: A Case Against Their “Innocence”

By Darnell Moore

American evangelicals went to Uganda to spread the anti-gay word, but now refuse to accept the tragic consequences of that effort.

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Guest Bloggers**, RD BlogMarch 7, 2014

Gays Going to Hell According to “Expert” Witness in Michigan’s Gay Marriage Trial

By Darnell Moore

An embarrassing case gets embarrassinger. 

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StoriesMarch 5, 2014

LGBTQ Group to March in St. Patty Parade… Good News, Right?

By Darnell Moore

Parade marches one step forward, two steps back.

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Guest Bloggers, RD BlogFebruary 25, 2014

Is Africa the Most Homophobic Continent?

By Darnell Moore

It’s easy enough to say it.

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RD Blog, StoriesFebruary 15, 2014

Transforming Sports Culture: Sochi and the NFL

By Darnell Moore

Will religion follow suit? 

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StoriesFebruary 4, 2014

What More is There to Say About LGBTQI Life and Religion?

By Darnell Moore

A new blog is launched.

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(A)theologies, Sexuality/GenderDecember 12, 2013

A Pastor’s Suicide: Addressing Mental Health in Black Churches

By Darnell Moore

What are we to do when the spiritual leaders we expect to give us life take their own? 

I have been pondering this question, among many others, in the wake of national media reports about the suicide of 42-year old Teddy Parker Jr., pastor of Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church.

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