A History of Prophetic Black Preaching That Doesn’t Start or End With Dr. King
“We preachers who have come of age in the 21st century stand on tall shoulders and drink from cisterns and wells we did not dig.”
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Power in a Union: How the Working Class Shaped Religion in America
A time when working-class identity and religion converged
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A Time to Break Down, and A Time to Build Up: Reinventing Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans
A disaster is not an “Act of God.”
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Come Hell or High Water: How the Melodrama of Disaster Leaves Us Vulnerable
Disaster has a clarifying glamour. It promises to highlight virtue and reveal iniquity. Therein lies the problem.
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Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution
What is remarkable is not even how many times Axe repeats the same argument, but how many times this same argument has been repeated by intelligent design (ID) proponents before him.
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The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips
Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.
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Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation
Evangelicals have enjoyed a longstanding right to define the terms of “religious freedom” as it benefits their own cultural position
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What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains
An early scene in Frank Bures’s The Geography of Madness describes the author wandering through…
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The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins
An interview with Alison Collis Greene, author of No Depression in Heaven: the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
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Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now
The old refrain that white liberals are the bane of systemic change applies differently when…
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