Out of Options: Christians’ Losing Battle Over Equality
In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative…
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Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now
Anyone who saw last year’s standout documentary, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters, probably noted a brief, sober coda to…
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Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform
Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…
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What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed
For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books…
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LDS Church Labels Same-Sex Spouses “Apostates,” Bars Children From Baptism
5 things the church can do if it cares about the children.
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White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break
The chattering classes are all agog to learn from two Princeton economists that white working-class America…
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The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll
Yes, there are bad questions.
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The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music
Ten Questions on “Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture”
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The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown
A conversation with author Sikivu Hutchinson
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Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?
Did a group of Christian Vikings from Sweden and Norway travel by river to Douglas…
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