Still Left Behind: What the Endurance of the Left Behind Cinematic Universe Can Tell Us About Conservative Moral Psychology
The End keeps on not coming, but the delay has produced yet another opportunity for…
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Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment
Daniel Silliman’s new book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith,…
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Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics
In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote,…
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What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis
Fundamentalist Christian support for President Trump is a commonly known, if poorly understood, political dynamic…
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Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’
We are all like Sanders and other conservative white evangelicals insofar as we all have confirmation bias, making it difficult for us to accept evidence contrary to what we already believe, but the history and faith practices of white evangelicals offer an additional set of tools of belief.
Read MoreDoes Romans 13 Controversy Call the Adequacy of the Bible Itself Into Question?
Better historical context just compounds the question of the adequacy of this Book, given its wildly divergent ethical uses.
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Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?
President Donald Trump recently led a ceremony on National Prayer Day, just a day after…
Read MoreWhy Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?
It’s not that Republican politicians and strategists had become convinced of critical theory’s questioning of how scientific knowledge is produced. It’s that their desire to undercut the “realist attitude” and their love of uncertainty about the true had appeared to strangely dovetail with some postmodern theorists.
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Why America’s Handmaid’s Tale Doesn’t Look Like Hulu’s
Nothing like a Handmaid’s Tale revolution is going to happen. Probably.
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Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era
The following was originally published on April 25, 2017. The upcoming release of Hulu’s Handmaid’s…
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