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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Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?
What does the Bible have in common with a raccoon, a Barrett M82 rifle, and…
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What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed
For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books…
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The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music
Ten Questions on “Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture”
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Ross Douthat’s Rosy Old-Time Religion
In his latest the Times’ conservative Wunderkind Ross Douthat attempts to explain the current crisis as the result of our nation’s departure from orthodoxy. An honest look at the history of orthodoxy and he might see a past rife with the sin and brutality, enforced less by faith than by coercion.
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