Calling Trump’s Bee-Smitten Christians: You Think You Know What “Koinonia” Means?
Let’s have the required etymological look at the winning word and get it over with:…
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Without Judgment Day or Karma How Does a Humanist Confront ‘Trump Funk’?
Like all progressives, Trump’s victory in 2016 sent me into a funk. Now, as the…
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The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address
Last year Donald Trump delivered the commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Jerry…
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Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission
At first glance, Tony Perkins, who recently complained that the Secretary of State isn’t doing enough…
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Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?
President Donald Trump recently led a ceremony on National Prayer Day, just a day after…
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Why America’s Handmaid’s Tale Doesn’t Look Like Hulu’s
Nothing like a Handmaid’s Tale revolution is going to happen. Probably.
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No Time for Casual Faith: The First Unitarian Woman Elected President on our Urgent Moment
As an activist local minister in Phoenix, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray was deeply immersed in fighting…
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Maybe It’s Time to Admit That The “Grotesque Caricature” of White Evangelicals is the Reality
This week dozens of prominent evangelical leaders gathered at conservative Wheaton College, in Wheaton, IL,…
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Fear, Nostalgia and Power Drove Evangelicals to Trump: Interview with Evangelical Scholar John Fea
If you were raised in American evangelicalism during the past thirty years, you’ve probably come…
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A Somewhat Cynical Take On The Future And Soul Of Evangelicalism
Hidely-ho, readerinos! It’s time for one of our favorite running gags around the RD religio-sphere,…
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