Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”
From Trump’s support among evangelicals to Bernie Sanders’ secular Judaism to Hillary’s “voice of God” ad…
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Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?
By profession, Sam Harris is a brawler. The New Atheist writer has ongoing feuds with…
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History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope
From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to “Wilding,” myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.
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Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad
And it came to pass after the captivity of Israel and the desolation of Jerusalem…
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Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse
A conversation with End Times scholar Phil Torres on killer aliens, killer nanobots,
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“Of Kings and Prophets” Producers—a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew—Refuse to Sanitize the Bible
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan stated: “Religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion…
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On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number
Depending on how you look at it, Pi Day is a festival of nerds, a…
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How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ
When fitness tracking industry leader Fitbit went public last summer it was valued at $4.1 billion. The…
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Silence of “Religious Liberty” Activists on Muslims’ Cases Not What You Think
It’s the economics, stupid.
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Just Give ‘Em a Little Jesus: Black Marriage Meets White Paternalism
These days, a standard caveat from some religious black folk is that errant souls just…
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