Purity Culture is Also About National Purity: Anti-Asian Hate and Purity Culture [Audio]
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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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The Vatican ‘Doubts’ Same-Sex Love, But More Doubt The Vatican
Beware the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar went to his reward in 44…
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The End of My Line: It’s Okay to Embrace The ‘Covid Baby Bust’
Last week, researchers at Wellesley College and the University of Maryland described how—in contrast to…
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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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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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