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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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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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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Liberty University’s In-House Conversion ‘Therapist’ Retires, But Will the Christian School Cease This Discredited Practice?
On January 13, Liberty University, the world’s largest and most notorious fundamentalist college located in…
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The Bible May Be Stranger Than You Think … And Why It Matters
Despite the Bible’s ubiquity, despite the Bible’s appearance as a book like any other on…
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Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’
Brother Laeo Mystwood looks at the camera, his body obscured by a 3D avatar. He…
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I Grew Up Evangelical and the Christian Nationalist Insurrection Did Not Surprise Me
On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob…
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After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right
When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, most news reports focused on…
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How the Anti-Abortion Movement Gave us Donald Trump — and Why It Could Bring Worse
I grew up in the white evangelical community, surrounded by individuals who became Donald Trump’s…
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