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  • Racial Justice
    • Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
      Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
    • Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>
      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
  • Politics/Law
    • Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
      Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
    • The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
      The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
    • New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
      New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
  • The End of Roe
    • Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
      Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
    • What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
      What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
    • Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
      Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
      Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
    • The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
      The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
    • New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
      New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
      Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
    • With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
    • Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet

Mike Greer

Mike Greer is a retired ex-Southern Baptist minister who has lived in Kentucky for more than 25 years. He received a BA from Georgetown College, and an M.Div. and Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kentucky. He lived and ministered in the West Bank for 5 years.

(A)theologies, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesNovember 13, 2014

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

On November 11 Kentucky’s Southern Baptists voted overwhelmingly at their annual state meeting to sever…

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Guest Bloggers, OMFG, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderNovember 3, 2014

LGBT Christians Respond to Southern Baptists’ Call For Kindness, Understanding

By Mike Greer

Last week’s Southern Baptist Convention conference on “The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage”…

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Guest Bloggers, RD Blog, ScienceAugust 26, 2014

Did the “Science Guy” Bill Nye Single-Handedly Revive Noah’s Ark Theme Park?

By Mike Greer

The pitfalls of opposition.

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Guest Bloggers, OMFG, RD BlogAugust 15, 2014

Why Al Mohler offered to “Host” Kentucky’s U.S. Senate Race Debates

By Mike Greer

In an August 4 press release, Al Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary…

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Guest Bloggers**, OMFG, RD BlogJuly 31, 2014

Are Southern Baptists Softening Stance on Immigration?

By Mike Greer

In recent comments after visiting Central American refugees in Texas, the Southern Baptists’ emerging point man…

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