Coverage of Tucker Carlson’s Demonic Assault Missed the Importance of the Man He Shared the Story With
“Physically mauled” is how Tucker Carlson refers to the alleged demonic assault he suffered in…
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Authoritarians Must Break Your Will to Resist — So What Can You Do About it?
There were many people, apparently, who voted for Trump who justified it with plain vanilla…
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Trump’s Cabinet (and Other) Picks Paint Picture of a Christian Nationalist ‘Kakistocracy’
Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too…
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With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson
I’ll confess something up front. I hate election postmortems. I’m not sure anybody likes them,…
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Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
On October 12th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in…
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New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?
Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan…
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A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy
Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has…
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The Overwhelming Whiteness and Increasing Maleness of U.S. Churches isn’t an Accident — It’s a Selling Point
In a recent front-page article, New York Times religion reporter Ruth Graham explores a historic…
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Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category
As a transgender person who grew up evangelical and is now an atheist, I feel…
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Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?
As I watched this year’s Democratic National Convention live, there were moments when it became…
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