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      The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?
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      Exclusive: Why Did Chicago Public Schools Just Quietly Drop Transcendental Meditation?
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      Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%
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Anita Little

Anita Little is the editor of the Remapping American Christianities initiative at Religion Dispatches. Prior to that, she was the associate editor at Ms. magazine where she spent three years covering the intersections of gender, race and class. Little's work has been published in Ms., Angeleno, Alternet, Ebony and Pacific Standard. She is also a 2011 alumna of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesOctober 13, 2017

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

Three years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen.

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Archive, Culture, Remapping American ChristianitiesJuly 13, 2017

Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

The house was more than just a clever marketing ploy, it was an innovative vehicle for movement-building.

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Archive, Culture, Remapping American ChristianitiesJuly 12, 2017

#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

“Being conscious of your mind and body isn’t something that should be exclusive to white people.”

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Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesMay 30, 2017

A Progressive Christian Conference With an All-White Lineup: What Could Go Wrong?

By Anita Little

Preaching Peace, a progressive Christian organization that aims to achieve peace through the application of…

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Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderMay 17, 2017

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

Are we worse off than when “The Handmaid’s Tale” was first published?

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Archive, Culture, OMFG, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderMay 9, 2017

This Is How You Lose Them: Why “Generation Z” Won’t Be Flocking To Churches Anytime Soon

By Anita Little

Evangelicalism’s routine disengagement toward what matters to younger, more inclusive generations will only hasten its slide into irrelevance.

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Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesMarch 28, 2017

New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color

By Anita Little

Where are the journalists of color in religion reporting?

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Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderMarch 24, 2017

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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(A)theologies, Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesMarch 16, 2017

The Unbearable Whiteness of American Lent

By Anita Little

I realized then that I didn’t really “get” Lent—or at least how white Catholics interpreted it.

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Archive, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesMarch 10, 2017

New Poll Shows: White Evangelicals Are Still Dancing With the One That Brung ‘Em

By Anita Little

An astonishing 88 percent of those who originally backed Trump during his campaign approve of his current job performance and 91 percent of his original supporters still have a favorable view of him.

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