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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Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation
LOS ANGELES, CA—To the average passerby, Azusa Street is little more than a brick-lined pedestrian…
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Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020
Especially for people deemed “too political” (a label I’ve worn proudly for decades), this has…
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11 Top RD Stories of the Year: Because in 2020 Religion Went to 11
We could spend time preciously putting together a mildly clever and gently informative introduction to…
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Why I’m Not Quite Sold on ‘Black Santa’
Like many areas in American life, the symbols of Christmas are haunted by the specter…
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