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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Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP
Thirty-five years before Donald Trump descended the escalator of his gaudy Manhattan skyscraper to launch…
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QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement
If you’ve been online at any point in the past year—if not, welcome!—your aimless clicks…
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Reading Racism: In Confronting White Christian Fragility ‘Feeling’ is as Important as Ideas
“How does it feel to be a problem?” – W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls…
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The ‘C’ Word: What We’re Missing When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’
Author, scholar and activist Khyati Y. Joshi has been one of the seminal voices on…
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The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy
When I showed up at New York’s Judson Church in 1994 at least some of…
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Our Father, Who Art Our Mother: The (Open) Secret Queer History of God
Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws…
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The Wrong Emperor: Why Ralph Reed’s New Pro-Trump Book Distorts the Bible to Cast the President as Tiberius
Ralph Reed’s new book, For God and Country: The Christian Case for Trump (published by…
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But ‘Natural’ is Better, No? ‘How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science’
Go to the grocery store to buy vanilla extract and you’ll be faced with an…
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New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism
How completely de-Christianized and secularized has Western Europe become? Data from the EU tell a…
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