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    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
    • Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
      Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
  • Politics/Law
    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Don’t Buy Alito’s Assurances: Here’s What Happens Next After <em>Roe</em> Falls
      Don’t Buy Alito’s Assurances: Here’s What Happens Next After Roe Falls
  • The End of Roe
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
      Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
  • Christian Nationalism
    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
      Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
    • How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
      How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
    • Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
      Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
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Rob Shryock

Rob Shryock is an author, journalist and editor of the Religion blog "God Is Sometimes Great." He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Religion from Reed College, where he wrote his thesis on Christian Worship Music.

 

Guest BloggersDecember 12, 2013

Did Mark Driscoll Plagiarize the Wrong Person?

By Rob Shryock

Sorry, I meant to copy the other guy. 

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Guest BloggersNovember 24, 2013

Pastor Implicated in Sex Abuse Scandal is Back

By Rob Shryock

How long does it take to regain the trust of colleagues? Not too long it turns out. 

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Guest BloggersNovember 11, 2013

Conservative Mag: Glenn Greenwald Hates America

By Rob Shryock

But not for the reason you might think.

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Guest BloggersOctober 29, 2013

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

That which does not kill Mark Driscoll simply makes him stronger.

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Guest Bloggers, Sexuality/GenderOctober 23, 2013

Why is Liberty Institute Still Defending Phillip Monk?

By Rob Shryock

Maybe he’s all they’ve got.

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Guest BloggersOctober 22, 2013

Mark Driscoll vs John MacArthur: Battle of the Self-Promoting Calvinists

By Rob Shryock

Megachurch pastors have mini publicity scuffle.

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Guest BloggersOctober 22, 2013

The New Anti-Gay Argument: “The Gag Reflex”

By Rob Shryock

A pastor for the Gospel Coalition offers an immodest proposal.

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Guest BloggersOctober 15, 2013

Why $60K and Torture Beats Changing Divorce Law

By Rob Shryock

The holy work-around.

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Guest Bloggers, Sexuality/GenderOctober 10, 2013

UPDATE: Air Force Not Persecuting Christians After All

By Rob Shryock

Of course, the right-wing groups that published false information are lining up to apologize!

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Guest BloggersOctober 1, 2013

Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

By Rob Shryock

Then digs in… then apologizes. Mostly. 

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