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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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Alana Massey

Alana Massey is a writer covering culture, identity, and labor for publications like Elle, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. She is the author of two non-fiction books, All The Lives I Want and Worth Less, both forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing. She is a graduate of New York University and Yale Divinity School and she lives in New York.

History/Theology, Politics/LawOctober 11, 2018

Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

His hollow performances of Christian piety are so illegible because Trump’s object of worship isn’t the God of Abraham, or even the United States. To Trump, land borders themselves are holy, worth honoring with menacing shrines and protecting with the blood of innocents.

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Alana Massey, Archive, Culture, Science, The CubitOctober 14, 2016

Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

The most outspoken non-believers have been antagonistic, bombastic, and sometimes profoundly embarrassing older white men.

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(A)theologies, Alana Massey, Archive, Culture, Remapping American Christianities, Special FeaturesAugust 7, 2016

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

Those panicking over the rise of the Nones have been looking for the youth in the wrong places and asking them the wrong questions when they do find them. Christianity, and a very orthodox Christianity at that, is hiding in plain sight.

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(A)theologies, Alana Massey, Archive, New Books, RD Blog, StoriesJanuary 27, 2015

As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

Professor Daniel C. Maguire’s latest book, Christianity Without God: Moving beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving…

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(A)theologies, Alana Massey, RD BlogSeptember 9, 2014

Must James Foley and Steven Sotloff Be Martyrs to Not Have Died in Vain?

By Alana Massey

The recent arrival of ISIS in the international spotlight has demonstrated once again that there…

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(A)theologies, Alana Massey, Archive, RD Blog, UncategorizedAugust 21, 2014

James Foley Prayed, But He Was Not a Martyr

By Alana Massey

One of many of the unbecoming habits of career non-believers is the mockery of prayer….

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Alana Massey, RD Blog, StoriesMarch 19, 2014

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

Is it believable that the Pro-Life Action League, a group with a spotty past, has published identifying information of abortion-rights activists in order to help supporters pray for individuals?   

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Alana Massey, RD Blog, StoriesMarch 18, 2014

You Can’t be the Face of Religious Liberty and Spew Hatred of Religion

By Alana Massey

Note to atheist champions of religious liberty.

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Alana Massey, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderMarch 17, 2014

Does God Hate the Terminally Ill Fred Phelps?

By Alana Massey

The ugliness (and irony) of rejoicing in Fred Phelps’ death.

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Alana Massey, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderMarch 7, 2014

Who Threatens Marriage More: Gays Who Value the Sacrament or Atheists Who Don’t?

By Alana Massey

Go on, ask the Church of England.

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