The Evangelical Abortion Myth: An Excerpt from ‘Bad Faith’
The Religious Right’s most cherished and durable myth is its myth of origins. According to…
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‘Bad Faith’ Reveals This isn’t First Rodeo for Racism and Religious Right
The Religious Right is experiencing another, devastating Covid surge, especially in Southern states with Republican…
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A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture
At a small group Bible study in suburban Colorado Springs, circa 2008, a group of…
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Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment
Daniel Silliman’s new book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith,…
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After Michael Jerryson (1974-2021) Nobody Will Ever Look at Buddhism the Same Way
It is perhaps not too much of an exaggeration to say that after Michael Jerryson…
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Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — ‘The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy’
Last month, the internal politics of the Southern Baptist Convention became national news after Ed…
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Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’
Mat Staver, cofounder of the right-wing legal activist group Liberty Counsel, seems to think that…
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The Breaking of Biblical Womanhood: The Problem With the Hot New Book Taking Aim at the Subjugation of Women in Evangelicalism
As the Mississippi sun drenched my parents’ stately living room, I strained with anticipation from…
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I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’
For readers of RD, Anthea Butler scarcely needs an introduction. Since 2009, shortly after RD’s…
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How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture
As we approach the two-month ‘anniversary’ of the armed takeover of the Capitol, and President…
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