Where Were They Radicalized? No Answer is Complete Without Addressing Evangelical Churches and Schooling
As the United States prepares for the end of a nightmarish one-term presidency that seemed…
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Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
A month ago, I argued here on RD that America’s national conversation about Christianity is…
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Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque…
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Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing
UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached…
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Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation
LOS ANGELES, CA—To the average passerby, Azusa Street is little more than a brick-lined pedestrian…
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Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors
On Tuesday, December 15, disgraced former Houston Police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was charged with…
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I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’
The six white men who lead the seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention released a…
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America’s National Conversation about Christianity is ‘Fundamentally Unserious’ — But Not in the Way You Think
As I’ve argued before, the United States, an ostensibly secular country, has a de facto…
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With This Thanksgiving Bombshell SCOTUS Began Implementation of an Ultraconservative Agenda
The unsigned, midnight opinion dropped like a bombshell on Thanksgiving. Five ultraconservative members of the…
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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
Jack Rakove, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, is back with another prize-worthy book, Beyond Belief, Beyond…
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