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      We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
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      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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    • Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?
      Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?
    • We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
      We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
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      On the ‘Violent-Prayer-a-Day’ Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter, Alleged Killer of Minnesota Democrats
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      We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence
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      On the ‘Violent-Prayer-a-Day’ Christian Education of Dr. Vance Boelter, Alleged Killer of Minnesota Democrats
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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, 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, CultureJanuary 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, 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)theologiesMay 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, 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, 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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