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      As a Religious Studies Professor I Disagreed With the Hamline Firing — But Now I’ve Changed My Mind
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      GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident
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      The Right’s Satanic-Grammy-Panic Isn’t About the Devil or Pfizer or Even Scantily-Clad Women — It’s All About the Transphobia
    • Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution
      Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution
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      In Israel, Left and Right Join to Protest New Government Threat to Democracy — What’s Striking is What’s Missing
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      Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution
    • Don’t Tread on our Gas Stoves: The Latest Right-Wing Cause May Be Silly But the Strategy is the Point
      Don’t Tread on our Gas Stoves: The Latest Right-Wing Cause May Be Silly But the Strategy is the Point
    • GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident
      GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident
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      Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
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      As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon
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Anthony B. Pinn

Anthony B. Pinn received his B.A. from Columbia University, Master of Divinity and PhD in the study of religion from Harvard University. He is currently the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religion at Rice University. Pinn is the founding director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) also at Rice University. Pinn’s research interests include religion and culture; humanism; and hip hop culture. He is the author/editor of over 35 books, including The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2002); Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion (2003), Noise and Spirit: Rap Music’s Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities (2004), and the novel, The New Disciples (2015). Pinn is also director of research for the Institute for Humanist Studies, a Washington DC-based think tank.

(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 23, 2009

O(pinn)ion: Cosmic Lessons: When the Ministry Pulls a Madoff

By Anthony B. Pinn

A minister’s son plays Bernie Madoff and swindles his father’s congregation out of millions. Is it helpful to see events like this in terms of God’s plan?

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 22, 2009

O(Pinn)ion: God’s Little Soldiers: Procreation as a Weapon

By Anthony B. Pinn

The Quiverfull movement sees children as an army of missionaries meant to reshape the United States along biblical lines.

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Politics/LawJune 18, 2009

O(Pinn)ion: Reevaluating a Faith-Based Nation

By Anthony B. Pinn

While it’s great that Obama’s faith-based program addresses nonbelief, without the proper vigilance we’ll simply get superficial “tolerance” of secularists with an assumed theistic backstory.

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 16, 2009

O(Pinn)ion: Defending Obama’s Choice

By Anthony B. Pinn

I reject Rick Warren’s theological orientation and vigorously critique the death-dealing theologies of those like him. But my disagreement (and yours) is not the point.

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Politics/LawJune 16, 2009

Inauguration Day: Re-imagining Ourselves

By Anthony B. Pinn

With the election of Barack Obama Americans have proven that we are able to re-imagine something as fundamental as race, as the perception of our bodies in society. But oppression is a complex mechanism, and we cannot allow ourselves to be blinded to its workings.

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CultureJune 15, 2009

Bad Karma: Life Lessons From Earl

By Anthony B. Pinn

When an American TV show borrows from Eastern philosophy, it leaves the ethical dimension behind while offering a healthy dose of materialism. Even so, it might have something to teach us.

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(A)theologies, Science & TechnologyJune 11, 2009

In the Dark Night of Disaster

By Anthony B. Pinn

A meditation by flashlight on the nature of evil, whether natural or moral, and the power of human agency to do good in the world…

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CultureJune 2, 2009

Facebook, Twitter, and the Death of Body Language

By Anthony B. Pinn

Something is missing from the world of instant communicating, microblogging, and social media: the body. There’s no face-to-face in Facebook, and no turning back. Are we becoming a network of phantoms?

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