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Hollis Phelps

Hollis Phelps is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Mercer University, in Macon, GA. He writes regularly on the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.

Culture, History/Theology, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 20, 2019

The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point

By Hollis Phelps

Much of the discussion of white evangelicals laments the loss of their moral standing, but such criticisms suffer under the misunderstanding that white evangelicalism in the United States has somehow devolved from a once salutary moral vision to brute political opportunism.

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History/Theology, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 19, 2019

The Problem of ‘Evil’ in Describing Southern Baptist Abuse Crisis

By Hollis Phelps

Now that I’m a pastor, I hold this truth within me: Every person has the capacity to do horrible things and so our congregations need to be set up with ways to report that go beyond a distraught housewife armed with a telephone.

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History/Theology, Politics/LawJanuary 28, 2019

The Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’

By Hollis Phelps

Not only are claims that the religious left is “on the rise” as old as the contemporary religious right itself, but the framing of the religious left may actually further enable the religious right.

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Culture, History/TheologyJune 7, 2018

So What if Psychedelics Are ‘Just’ Spiritual?

By Hollis Phelps

A recent journal study found that the majority who use the psychedelic DMT do so for the expressed purpose of spiritual exploration. Will that kind of data hurt the prospects for the future study of psychedelics?

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawApril 19, 2018

Maybe It’s Time to Admit That The “Grotesque Caricature” of White Evangelicals is the Reality

By Hollis Phelps

This week dozens of prominent evangelical leaders gathered at conservative Wheaton College, in Wheaton, IL,…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawJune 24, 2016

Repent, Hillary: Trump’s Evangelical Backers Play the Sin Card

By Hollis Phelps

In the Atlantic this morning, Jonathan Merritt writes a bemused narrative of this week’s evangelical about-face as,…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveFebruary 18, 2016

Will Evangelicals Vote for a Non-Christian Trump? If They Don’t, the Vatican May Fall to ISIS

By Hollis Phelps

Did Pope Francis just throw a wrench into Donald Trump’s machinations to win the evangelical vote? Referring…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, New Books, ScienceFebruary 5, 2016

Do Psychedelics Offer a Path To The “God Within”?

By Hollis Phelps

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary’s famous exhortation still influences our view of so-called psychedelic…

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Activism and the Academy, Archive, Ask the Dust, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesDecember 17, 2015

It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging

By Hollis Phelps

Larycia Hawkins, a tenured political science professor at the evangelical stalwart Wheaton College, was placed…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, StoriesApril 14, 2015

What the Critics of the Mindfulness Trend Don’t Get

By Hollis Phelps

It’s not simply reinforcing western privilege or turning us into contented drones.

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