Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians
Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism
There is little doubt as to why Orthodoxy seems appealing to a white nationalist movement.
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#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity
Why is it always “courageous” to stand with Black people?
Read MoreGay Marriage isn’t About Christianity So Much as Christian Nationalism
Eerie coincidence or scholar-geist?
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‘Let It Be Unto Me’: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church
A pair of historians discuss Republican rep. Todd Akin’s remarks on “legitimate rape”: the female body carries a huge burden of representation: her ability to protect the boundaries of her body, and to maintain her purity, reflects the church’s ability to do the same.
Read MoreThe Theological Roots of Akin’s ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment
The Senate candidate is proud of how his Masters in Divinity shaped his politics.
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Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?
If Anders Behring Breivik isn’t a Christian terrorist, then the same can be said of Osama bin Laden and many other Islamist activists—whose writings show that they were much more interested in Islamic history than theology or scripture and imagined themselves as re-creating glorious moments in Islamic history in their own imagined wars.
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Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate
The New Apostolic Reformation has been in the news a great deal since Rick Perry first announced his prayer rally, The Response. Sarah Posner has an investigative journalist’s view of this movement, its place in religious movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in politics. Here she is in conversation with Anthea Butler, a scholar of American religious history.
The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti
Notwithstanding Haiti’s Christian character, the Haitian personality, if there is one, has been nurtured by a Vodou civilization that any responsible treatment of the subject must disentangle from the Western world’s manufactured “voodoo” culture.
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RDBook: Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama
What’s a white racist to do these days? A new book examines the history of white nationalism as it has moved from the fringe to the mainstream, describes the religious roots of the movement, and alerts us to its political and social goals.
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