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    • Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past
      Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past
    • Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP
      Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP
    • Reading Racism: In Confronting White Christian Fragility ‘Feeling’ is as Important as Ideas
      Reading Racism: In Confronting White Christian Fragility ‘Feeling’ is as Important as Ideas
  • Politics/Law
    • Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past
      Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past
    • Trump’s Nominee to Fill RBG’s Seat Is Unfit. By Definition.
      Trump’s Nominee to Fill RBG’s Seat Is Unfit. By Definition.
    • Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable
      Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable
  • Religious Liberty
    • Exclusive: Why Did Chicago Public Schools Just Quietly Drop Transcendental Meditation?
      Exclusive: Why Did Chicago Public Schools Just Quietly Drop Transcendental Meditation?
    • Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)
      Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)
    • Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine
      Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
      A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
    • Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
      Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
    • Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
      Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
  • New Books
    • Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP
      Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP
    • QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement
      QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement
    • The ‘C’ Word: What We’re Missing When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’
      The ‘C’ Word: What We’re Missing When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

Nyasha Junior

Nyasha Junior is an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Temple University Department of Religion. She is the author of An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation. See her website: nyashajunior.com.

Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesMay 10, 2016

Ten Books to Read After You’ve Watched “Lemonade”

By Nyasha Junior

We are living in the end times—or at least, in the post-“Lemonade” era. On April…

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Archive, New Books, RD10Q, RD10Q, Remapping American ChristianitiesJanuary 5, 2016

A Biblical Perspective That Recognizes Black Women

By Nyasha Junior

What inspired you to write An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation? I used some of…

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(A)theologies, Archive, New Books, Remapping American ChristianitiesDecember 3, 2015

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

“When we talk about Black Lives Matter, we’re talking about all black lives.”

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