The Biggest Lesson Learned From the US War in Afghanistan is How Little We’ve Learned
Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks, President George W….
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The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism
Over the last couple of weeks, America’s conservative, mostly white evangelicals have once again generated…
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Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?
Some ten days after the fall of Kabul it’s still not clear how the Taliban…
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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?
In 2018, I published an article here on Religion Dispatches about how abortion is a…
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Another Manufactured Outrage: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did Nothing Wrong in Listing Hamas, Israel, and U.S. Together
Last week, Representative Ilhan Omar asked Secretary of State Tony Blinken a straightforward question. It…
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With Trump’s Failure to Protect Religious Minorities, Afghan Hindus and Sikhs Face an Uncertain Future in India
On July 19, 2020, The New York Times reported that India had offered to take in…
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Satanists Want You to Respond to the Pandemic with Compassion. And Reason.
The Coronavirus is changing America’s religious landscape as social distancing forces most religious communities to…
Read MoreAt CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed
When you center abortion at the cost of all other issues, you center the unborn whose lives are supposedly at stake. The unborn become angels who must be protected at all costs, which means the rest of us—the born and bodied—are of secondary concern at best.
Read MoreJesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial
The army inquires about soliders’ faiths because it doesn’t assume the people dying to defend this nation are Christian. When one views the cross in that light, it seems antithetical to the ideals for which those same soldiers fought.
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Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians
Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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