How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories
Doing research in a branch of the state library in Berlin a few years ago,…
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Alabama’s Yoga Ban Is Part of the Christian Right’s War on Pluralism
The headline itself was the stuff of viral internet fodder: Alabama House votes to end…
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Beth Moore’s Departure Could Hurt Southern Baptists and Move Them Further Right
The departure of evangelical superstar Beth Moore from the Southern Baptist Convention and its publishing…
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I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’
For readers of RD, Anthea Butler scarcely needs an introduction. Since 2009, shortly after RD’s…
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Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption
Recently the news dropped that the Michigan-based Bethany Christian Services, a large and influential conservative…
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How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture
As we approach the two-month ‘anniversary’ of the armed takeover of the Capitol, and President…
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Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts
When Twitter and Facebook shuttered the account of Donald Trump, along with thousands of others…
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The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’
Me, starting column: Well, actually, an evangelical sign-on petition calling white nationalism a heresy…
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Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence
In the wake of the devastating January 6th attack on the Capitol, White nationalist domestic…
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No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity
We’ve all heard the stories, and some of us have seen it with our own…
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