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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Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point
Amen and awoman. Exclusion and inclusion. Division and diversity. Religion and nonreligion. Rep. Cleaver (D-MO)…
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Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020
Especially for people deemed “too political” (a label I’ve worn proudly for decades), this has…
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11 Top RD Stories of the Year: Because in 2020 Religion Went to 11
We could spend time preciously putting together a mildly clever and gently informative introduction to…
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Why Virginia Governor’s ‘God is Everywhere’ Statement isn’t a Simple Answer to Those Who Want to Worship Together
On December 12, Bishop Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles founder…
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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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History Matters: On the 400th Anniversary of Plymouth We’re Still Clinging to Destructive National Myths
Within William Bradford’s massive work, Of Plymouth Plantation, composed between 1630 and 1651 while he…
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Inevitable Megachurch Abuse of PPP Funds is Coming to Light — Private Jet Included
“The federal government can’t take our money and give it to Joel Osteen or Robert…
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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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Rev. Raphael Warnock Tweets ‘I am a pro-choice pastor’ and Suddenly a Public Figure’s Religion is Fair Game
As you know, the Rev. Raphael Warnock is running to represent the state of Georgia…
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