‘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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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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Why Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion is Fair Game
On Monday the Senate Democrats the subject of religion. During the first day of Appellate…
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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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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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Are Evangelicals Sweetness and Light or Enablers of Cruelty and Racism? Gender Roles Hint at an Answer
Have white evangelicals been unfairly demonized by scholars and pundits alike in the run-up to…
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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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Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?
You could be forgiven if, after watching the 2020 Democratic and Republican party conventions, you…
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The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness
“[T]he North has as much to apprehend from abolition as the South…and it is…
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