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      Have White Evangelicals Finally Lost Control of the Narrative?
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      Derek Chauvin’s Defense, in Keeping with a Long Racist Tradition, Seeks to Criminalize George Floyd
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      Have White Evangelicals Finally Lost Control of the Narrative?
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      Alabama Yoga Debate Focusing on the Wrong Question
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      Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Spouts Christian Nationalism Defending Racist Voter Suppression
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Kaya Oakes

Kaya Oakes is the author of four books, including The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers and Those In-Between (Orbis Books, 2015), and Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church (Counterpoint Press, 2009). A contributing writer to America Magazine, Commonweal, and many other publications, she is also a contributing editor at the website Killing the Buddha. She teaches nonfiction writing at the University of California, Berkeley.

(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, Featured, Kaya Oakes, StoriesJune 22, 2015

Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

By Kaya Oakes

In the days before the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudauto Si,…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Featured, Kaya OakesMay 28, 2015

What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience

By Kaya Oakes

Having spent most of the last two years in conversation with Nones, seekers, doubters, and…

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Archive, Culture, StoriesAugust 19, 2014

Calvary is Bleak, But Can it Kick?

By Kaya Oakes

Calvary posits that faith is mostly a fear of death, but in reality, like Gleeson’s performance, faith is a living, changing, malleable thing. His Father James helps us understand why people still need religion.

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