More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s
What inspired you to write PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical…
Read MoreRemapping American Christianities
This initiative aimed to take a fresh look at Christianity’s increasingly diverse expression in the United States. As the monochromatic paradigm of American Christianity fades, this initiative explored how people came together in new ways to express their beliefs, effect social justice, and find community in structures we may not yet recognize as “church.”
Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”
Author Max Perry Mueller answers RD’s 10 Questions
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What Happens When An American President Believes He is Above the Law?
Americans like to talk about law as if it something real, something outside the thoughts…
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In Times of Upheaval, SBC Turns Its Back on “the Least of These”
An open letter to the Southern Baptist Convention for its tepid response to white supremacy and reproductive rights
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Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?
The bishops helped radicalize white Catholics to be favorable to Trump—which they were, with 60 percent backing him despite all-but-explicit condemnations by Pope Francis:
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It’s Complicated: When “None” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It
The paradox of post-evangelicals’ relationship to faith
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The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument
The dustup between Stephen Miller and CNN’s Jim Acosta reveals American civil religious ideals in a colossal clash with administration policy.
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Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?
An electric sermon lights up the night at a century-old conference for Black clergy.
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Unmasking the “Veiled Prophet” Behind a 135-Year-Old St. Louis Tradition
The Arch City Religion Project is one of the latest digital means of mapping (and remapping) American Christianities and American religions more broadly.
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For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring
“The shallow connections you facilitate and use to milk people out of some cash, also makes them less likely to participate in the actual justice work that would eliminate poverty and injustice.”
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