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    • 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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Diana Butler Bass

Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality. You can sign up for The Cottage, her newsletter "for those who feel dissatisfied, discomforted, or uncertain about religion," here. Visit her website, dianabutlerbass.com, for more information.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawApril 23, 2024

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

By Diana Butler Bass

When Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pushed through aid to Ukraine this week, it…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Sex/Gender/JusticeJune 3, 2022

The SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal is a ‘Success’ Story of the Theological Vision and Social Structure of the ‘Conservative Resurgence’

By Diana Butler Bass

I don’t recall the specific date in late summer 1985—but I remember exactly where I…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/LawApril 21, 2022

‘Straight, White, Christian, Married, Suburban Mom’ Calls Out GOP Bully; But are Majority of White Suburban Moms Ready to See Through the ‘Nice’ Charade?

By Diana Butler Bass

On April 19, Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow publicly called her colleague, Senator Lana Theis,…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Media Analysis, OMFGApril 7, 2022

Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late

By Diana Butler Bass

In autumn 1980, I was a senior at a Christian college in California taking a…

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 22, 2009

Post-Modern Progressives, or Liberalism Ain’t What It Used To Be

By Diana Butler Bass

With whom does one make alliances for the sake of peace in the world? Post-modern progressive theology does not compromise, but neither does it insist on a single truth. In its journey toward justice, it keeps its eye on the practical.

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(A)theologies, Archive, CultureJune 17, 2009

Why I Am Still a Christian

By Diana Butler Bass

A friend once asked Diana Butler Bass why she was still a Christian. The answer lies in the question of spiritual memory, and of a community that exists through time.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, Politics/LawJune 17, 2009

Christianity v. Christ: An Excerpt From A People’s History of Christianity

By Diana Butler Bass

Most people know only the Big-C Christianity—Christ, Constantine, Christendom, Calvin, and Christian America—but there is another one, linked to a biblical parable of a wounded man’s rescue by a stranger.

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