Rev. Rob Lee Lost Congregation For His Anti-Racism Speech: Here’s Why He Should Have Packed His Bags First
Liberal viewers of Monday’s episode of The View (scroll for video) may have been surprised to hear…
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Alabama Senate Considers Giving Church Its Own Police Force; Irony Reportedly Dead
Tomorrow night, as we head into the home stretch of Lent rounding the corner to…
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Will Church Attendance Reduce Bigotry? A Response to Peter Beinart
We’re studying theories of baptism in the college course I teach on prayer, worship, and…
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“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution
We are human beings, and we build things.
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Why Christian Fundamentalism Is Still a Big Deal in U.S. Politics, And How It Got That Way
An interview with Jonathan J. Edwards on “Superchurch: the Rhetoric and Politics of American Fundamentalism”
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How to Become an Atheist in Twelve Short Months
Ryan Bell no longer believes in God, exactly. Bell is the former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor who last January made…
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The Ordinary Jesus: An Excerpt from Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age
The divinity of Jesus is problematic.
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No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead
What inspired you to write Talking to the Dead? I vividly recall the experiences that…
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The Fourth of July Is Not America’s Birthday
No, in July of 2014 we don’t face the urgent threat of an established church, but we do face an ongoing struggle with those abusing freedom of religion.
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Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’
“The book is vulnerable, to have all these stories about myself and these truths about myself out there. It’s not like the book is going to impress anyone—nobody’s going to say, ‘Wow, Nadia Bolz-Weber is a fucking spiritual giant.'”
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