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      What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
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      Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
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Jill Marshall

Jill Marshall earned her PhD in New Testament and early Christianity from Emory University in Atlanta and is currently a research fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. View her research and writing at https://jillmarshall.contently.com/or https://hu-berlin.academia.edu/JillMarshall.

History/Theology, Politics/LawFebruary 6, 2019

If Pelosi Is Guilty, So’s Jesus

By Jill Marshall

Nancy Pelosi has come under fire because her “favorite Bible verse” isn’t actually in the Bible. But there’s a long and storied history of misquoting the Bible, including a couple of figures you’d least expect.

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