A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy
Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has…
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A New Book Traces the Influence of Racism and Imperialism on White Christian Feminism
As a scholar of American evangelicalism, I often spend my time writing and teaching about…
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Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?
Conservative Christian social media influencers have an important message to deliver after a new documentary…
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Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors
Imagine my embarrassment when I heard from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s media relations…
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Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators
Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention voted during a plenary session to disfellowship six of…
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‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance
When I signed up to attend a 3-day conference at the flagship young-Earth creationist organization…
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New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem
In the midst of tense debates around race, gender, and partisan politics, the 2021 Southern…
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Inside the Evangelical Beliefs and Practices that Facilitate Abuse in Families like the Duggars’
Last Thursday, Josh Duggar’s sexual misconduct once again brought his reality TV-famous family into the…
Read MoreTony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission
While Perkins has expressed interest in using his new position as an opportunity to support “religious freedom and the defense of religious minorities,” he might find that the USCIRF actually doesn’t require a significant change in focus from his own preoccupations with Christians’ rights.
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Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission
At first glance, Tony Perkins, who recently complained that the Secretary of State isn’t doing enough…
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