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    • Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’
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Mary Fulkerson

Mary McClintock Fulkerson is Associate Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School.

Books, RD10QJune 2, 2010

Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church

By Mary Fulkerson

When it comes to subtle racism and able-ism in church communities, “even very well-meaning dominant groups are oblivious to their own power.”

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