Are the Southern Baptists, America’s Largest Evangelical Denomination, About to Get Even More Conservative?
There is perhaps no easier way to illustrate the history and present realities of white…
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There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle
A plague is upon us. And white evangelicals, naturally, are on the scene—theologizing the COVID-19…
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In Speech to Religious Broadcasters William Barr Warns of Secular Tyranny, Promotes Christian Tyranny
I’ve said it before, and if you’re reading this, you’ve very likely heard the same…
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Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate
If you’re pondering the question of who won last night’s final Democratic primary debate, one…
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The Evangelical Pluralism Problem and its Media Enablers
At this critical moment for American democracy our media landscape is doing a poor job…
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Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion
Reuters’ Sarah N. Lynch broke a big story on Monday morning highlighting one of the more…
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Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals
Since late December, 2019, when retiring editor-in-chief of Christianity Today Mark Galli published his infamous…
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Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow
Evangelical authoritarianism is a problem that the American mainstream as a rule fails to treat with the seriousness it demands, in part because it’s easy to laugh at the antics of a Robert Jeffress while assuming that more respectable conservative evangelicals are more moderate and more numerous.
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Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response
Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals’ love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting.
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‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video
I think all of these [Christian rock stars] who find the courage to share their truth make a huge impact, and if everyone in contemporary Christian music and the church was honest about their own truth, their own questions, and their own beliefs, I think we would progress a lot quicker.
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