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Cavan Concannon

Cavan Concannon is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. For more on the White evangelical Bible, see his recent book, co-written with Jill Hicks-Keeton, Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation (Cambridge 2022). He is also the author of Profaning Paul (Chicago 2021). You can find him on Twitter @CavanConcannon or at cavanconcannon.com.

(A)theologies, Archive, Books, Christian Nationalism, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/LawMarch 29, 2024

Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ is No Joke

By Cavan Concannon

As he makes another bid for the White House, Donald Trump is well aware of…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Media Analysis, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 25, 2022

‘Do They Even Read the Bible?’ — Why Exposing White Evangelical Hypocrisy is a Dead End

By Cavan Concannon

Almost every day I run across some version of this Twitter interaction:  Original Tweet: Bible/Jesus/God…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Culture, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 4, 2021

Who Killed Mars Hill Church? There’s One Suspect Evangelicals Simply Aren’t Prepared to Interrogate

By Cavan Concannon

In the fall of 2014, Mark Driscoll resigned from his position as pastor of Mars…

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