The SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal is a ‘Success’ Story of the Theological Vision and Social Structure of the ‘Conservative Resurgence’
I don’t recall the specific date in late summer 1985—but I remember exactly where I…
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Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation
Dominion theology—the idea that humans are created uniquely like God and given godlike rule over…
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Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’
On Sunday, May 22, a third-party investigation of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention…
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Opposition to Marriage Equality is Not the Only Scriptural Position for Christians
Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article about Joseph Kuilema, a professor at…
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Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now over 100 days old. When the war began,…
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Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?
Sometimes it’s little details that evoke the biggest feels. I’ve been writing about the Uvalde…
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What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
More times than I can remember, I’ve had to ascend the minbar and address a…
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Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
You know it’s coming. Every time a mass shooting captures the American public’s consciousness, leading…
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Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
For the second time in almost as many weeks, a mass shooter used an AR-15-style…
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It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
On Sunday, an investigation firm called Guidepost Solutions released a 300-page report recounting a disturbingly…
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