What Passover Taught Me About Being Black
As Passover approaches this weekend I often reminisce about how, as a young child, the…
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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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Purity Culture is Also About National Purity: Anti-Asian Hate and Purity Culture [Audio]
The three and a half minute clip below, exclusive to RD, is from Bradley Onishi’s…
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Don’t Discount Evangelicalism as a Factor in Racist Murder of Asian Spa Workers in Georgia
Today, America is still reeling from the news of the mass murder of eight people…
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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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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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‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity
Note on spoilers, etc: This essay covers the broad outlines of the Mark Hofmann forgery…
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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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