Making Muffins and Troops for God’s Army: The Godly Women of Instagram
Selfies and photojournalists’ images reveal mostly white men at January 6th’s Trump rally and siege…
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Does Biden’s Inauguration Signal a ‘Third Reconstruction’?
Steny Hoyer was right, and we should thank the House Majority leader for clarifying things….
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The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion
There’s a reason religion and politics are forbidden topics in polite conversation: they’re divisive. Mixing…
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Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space
C’mon, admit it: you had the Kleenex handy while you watched the swearing-in of the…
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Christian Nationalists Didn’t Seek to Desecrate the Capitol But to Purify It
In her new book, Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s Capital and Redeem…
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Where Were They Radicalized? No Answer is Complete Without Addressing Evangelical Churches and Schooling
As the United States prepares for the end of a nightmarish one-term presidency that seemed…
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Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness
On Wednesday, January 6, a day now infamous for many Americans, I was pulled from…
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Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque…
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Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing
UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached…
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How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking
Positivity and positive thinking are very often held as inherently good qualities to embody. If you…
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