QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?
John F. Kennedy Jr. is dead and has been dead for some time. In July…
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‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
The following is an excerpt from Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels…
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How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams
It seems that when Donald Trump and his Republican enablers are able to seat a…
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What Does Satanism Have to do With QAnon?
Outsiders to the Q-Anon conspiracy system evolving over the past few years may be confused…
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No, Amy Coney Barrett Won’t Surprise Anyone
I’m guessing T.M. Luhrmann was trying to be reassuring. In a piece published Tuesday in The Atlantic,…
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‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle
Note: For readers directed here by the newsletter, we apologize for the incorrect link. Read…
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The Religious Reason Many Americans Refuse to Wear Masks
Even in the most evangelical phase of my life, when I was a college student…
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The Tyranny of Politesse: Why Decency Does Not Require us to Wish Trump a Full and Speedy Recovery
Let me state for the record. There is no moral obligation to wish Trump a…
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Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?
Early in George W. Bush’s second term, not long after I started my Ph.D. work…
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Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him
In 1820, at age 77, retired President Thomas Jefferson took a razor to four versions…
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