Netflix’s Carlton Pearson Biopic, “Come Sunday,” Reveals Christianity’s Struggle for its Soul
What’s the message, Bishop? That question, asked by the church’s closeted gay music director, Reggie…
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A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture
Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the…
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Billy Graham Was More Like White America’s Surrogate Savior Than “America’s Pastor”
OK, I completely understand why the Graham family and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association would cotton…
Read MoreHillary Clinton’s Disgraced “Faith Guru” is Out… Now How About the “Faith Operations” Industry?
Burns Strider, Hillary Clinton’s disgraced former “faith guru”—accused of sexually harassing at least two young…
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The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness
Taking my cue from the revised pater noster commended by His Holiness, I begin by…
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For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising
‘Tis the season for Christian supersessionism.
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Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality
Okay, we’re off to the races on what the White House and GOP Congressional leadership…
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Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a “Letter to the Americans” In His New Video Series
John Dominic Crossan: “Scholarly research on the Bible is inadequate or irrelevant if at least some of the scholars do not communicate their insights to laypeople who are eager to think and who are aware that baptism is not the same as lobotomy.”
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Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?
For almost ten years now, the folks at Sojourners and other progressive evangelical outfits have…
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Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science
The news of Louise Hay’s death took me right back to the mid-1980s and the…
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