“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)
Traveling through India in the summer of 1998, I arrived with some friends at Varanasi’s…
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History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope
From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to “Wilding,” myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.
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The current issue of ILGA-Europe’s Destination EQUALITY magazine focuses on reconciling sexual orientation, gender identity,…
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What the Fight over Allah says about the Future of Evangelical Christianity
When Professor Larycia Hawkins of Wheaton College publicly announced her solidarity with Muslims by wearing a…
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What Did the Puritans Have Against Christmas?
Another Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there…
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Out of Options: Christians’ Losing Battle Over Equality
In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative…
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Huckabee Says Obama is “Pretending to Be a Christian”
Somewhere on the floor of the Arctic Ocean there is a titanium flag on a…
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A Theology of Anger: Forgiveness For White Supremacy Derails Action and Alienates Young Black Activists
Just a day after the massacre in the historic Emanuel AME Church of Charleston, the son of…
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The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Ripple’ Is a Spiritual Manifesto
A stack of amplifiers three stories tall loomed over the 7,000 faithful arrayed on sun-baked…
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Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here
Not everyone has achieved their whiteness. Some cannot achieve it. Others do not want to attain it, and some live in constant frustration in their failure to secure it.
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