From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America
In 1961, driving back from a short vacation, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a bright…
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Russell Moore Claims There’s a Crisis in Evangelical America — But White Evangelicalism is Exactly Where it Wants to Be
Russell Moore used to be one of the top officials of the most powerful religious…
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Is ‘Beyond Doubt’ Correct About the Decline of Religion? Yes… Sort Of.
Looking back at the past seven years, Christianity seems stronger than ever in the United…
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How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism — An Interview
Earlier this year, on his Straight White American Jesus podcast, RD’s Bradley Onishi spoke with…
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From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism
Ana Marie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and…
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How Christian Theology Created the Need to Assert that Black Lives Matter
The Republican Party’s primary race is filling up with candidates crusading against “wokeness,” particularly in…
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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about…
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When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner
I have to admit that Michelle Huneven’s new novel was almost too delicious for me,…
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy: How Amazon, Google & Neuroscience Threaten American Buddhism
Contemporary American Buddhism has a problem, although, thankfully, unlike Christianity it has little to do…
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Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’
Sometimes, the scholarly life means taking delight in unexpectedly relevant news items: a new adaptation…
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