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    • Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash
      Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash
    • How the Right’s War on ‘Critical Race Theory’ Taps into the Powerful Religion of American Innocence
      How the Right’s War on ‘Critical Race Theory’ Taps into the Powerful Religion of American Innocence
    • Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN
      Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN
  • Politics/Law
    • How the Right’s War on ‘Critical Race Theory’ Taps into the Powerful Religion of American Innocence
      How the Right’s War on ‘Critical Race Theory’ Taps into the Powerful Religion of American Innocence
    • Rick Santorum Breezes Past the Genocidal Foundation of White Christian Nationalism
      Rick Santorum Breezes Past the Genocidal Foundation of White Christian Nationalism
    • Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN
      Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN
  • Religious Liberty
    • Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.
      Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.
    • As a Minister I’m Fed Up With Anti-Trans Legislation Written by Adults to Pick on Children, All in the Name of Religious Freedom
      As a Minister I’m Fed Up With Anti-Trans Legislation Written by Adults to Pick on Children, All in the Name of Religious Freedom
    • Alabama Yoga Debate Focusing on the Wrong Question
      Alabama Yoga Debate Focusing on the Wrong Question
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    • It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
      It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
    • We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
      We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
    • 11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You
      11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You
  • New Books
    • The Breaking of Biblical Womanhood: The Problem With the Hot New Book Taking Aim at the Subjugation of Women in Evangelicalism
      The Breaking of Biblical Womanhood: The Problem With the Hot New Book Taking Aim at the Subjugation of Women in Evangelicalism
    • I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’
      I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’
    • How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture
      How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

Deborah Jian Lee

Deborah Jian Lee is an award-winning journalist, podcast host of Kaleidoscope, and the author of the critically acclaimed book Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women & Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism (Beacon, 2015). She has worked as a staff reporter for the Associated Press, taught journalism at Columbia University, and written for Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Forbes, Slate, Reuters, GOOD, WBEZ, WNYC and others. She lives in Chicago.

Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderFebruary 14, 2018

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

It’s been a little over a year since the president first took office, and the…

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Culture, Remapping American ChristianitiesJanuary 29, 2018

“I Think the White Evangelical Church is Dead”: Dr. Russell Jeung on ‘Guilt’ vs. ‘Shame’ and Decolonizing Asian-American Christianity

By Deborah Jian Lee

People of color are a few short decades away from making up the majority of…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 10, 2018

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

This is how quickly it happened. One moment we were passing sumptuous kebob platters around…

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(A)theologies, Remapping American ChristianitiesMay 22, 2017

What Does Repentance Look Like For the White Church?: A Conversation with Lisa Sharon Harper

By Deborah Jian Lee

We are four months and counting into the administration of one of the least qualified…

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History/Theology, Politics/LawApril 27, 2017

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

White evangelicals captured the election, but they may have lost their fellow believers, the very people who could keep their institutions from the attrition that has many Christians genuinely worried for the future.

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Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Special FeaturesApril 27, 2017

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

He seemed drunk and ready for a fight. The man, mid-fifties, towering and broad shouldered,…

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Archive, Featured, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/Gender, Special FeaturesOctober 18, 2016

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

One of the nation’s largest campus ministries has demanded that its LGBT-affirming staff quit by November 11th.

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