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      ‘Do You Want Columbia to be Cursed by God?’ — Alarming Exchanges in Congress and Beyond Highlight the Desperate Need for Religious Literacy
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      Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It?
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      Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely
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      Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’
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      Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It?
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      Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely
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      We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree
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      Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?
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      After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures
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      Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It?
    • Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’
      Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’
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Christopher James Blythe

Christopher James Blythe is a research associate at the Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University, as well as the coeditor of the Journal of Mormon History and copresident of the Folklore Society of Utah. In 2015, he received his Ph.D. in American Religious History from Florida State University. He is currently co-authoring a book on contemporary Latter-day Saints for Columbia University Press with Philip Barlow and Jan Shipps. His book, Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse is due out this summer from Oxford University Press.

(A)theologies, Archive, OMFGMay 4, 2020

Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

If the worries of most quarantined Christians in the United States center on health and…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFGMarch 24, 2020

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet

By Christopher James Blythe

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet On March 18, 2020,…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveMarch 12, 2020

How ‘The Seven Missions’ of the ‘Doomsday Couple’ Connect Them to the Larger LDS Prophecy Subculture

By Christopher James Blythe

Apocalypticism was once part of the mainstream of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

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