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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Virginia Mollenkott: Warrior in the Battle for Evangelical Acceptance of Gays (1932-2020)
How do you start at Bob Jones University and end up one of the pre-eminent…
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Are Churches Making Americans More Racist?
America recently witnessed another display of the power of white supremacy in the failure to…
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Attraction to Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Can Be Traced to the Christian Apocalyptic Imagination
Among the troubling buzzwords forced into our pop culture vocabulary by the Covid-19 pandemic, one…
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High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death
Warning: Spoilers ahead I dare say that nobody decides to watch the new Seth…
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