Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History
With all the memes wishing a good riddance to 2016, and John Oliver’s epic send-off…
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Call Yourself Evangelical, Isaiah 11, or Orville Redenbacher, But Don’t Organize Under it
What I care about is that a vulgar-talking yam-fascist and his allied goons in Congress are about to savage the American state and the nation it’s supposed to serve.
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Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’
“Quite possibly, bearing the cross might mean opening our homes to immigrants, confronting our racist uncles at Thanksgiving dinner, taking to the streets, and putting our bodies on the line.”
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White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”
Some conservative Christian leaders are challenging the statistic that 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump.
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Jesus Has Left the Building: Celebrating the Next Reformation
Today we have the same fossilization of institutional religion, only this time it is us Protestants.
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Jesus for Atheists (and Agnostics, and Nones, and Everyone Else)
“There is absolutely nothing to stop us ‘seculars’ from following Jesus.”
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The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)
When I was in fifth or sixth grade my father bought me a King James…
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How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”
Back in the mid-1990s, I excitedly announced to my mother—who had spent a good part…
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A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter
Every so often, a news story of the day opens up into something deeper, broader,…
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Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do
Last month, Utah officially declared that pornography is a public health hazard, approving a resolution that contradicts much…
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