Gen. Kelly’s Civil War Story Derives From 19th Century Pro-Slavery Evangelicalism
Racist undercurrents in Gen. Kelly’s Civil War opinions run deep in the strand of American Evangelicalism that helped elect Trump.
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Is “Weak Leadership” to Blame for Catholic Trump Support?
It’s perhaps a sign of the times that two of the four articles in the…
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Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power
As the sixteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, communities from Utica, New York to…
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Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization
Just as no American, after Charlottesville, can doubt that the current US president remains deferential to an extremist white supremacist base that rallies in his name, so too no American can pretend Confederate memorials don’t serve as public shrines to a treasonous worldview
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Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left
It is the poor and dispossessed as a class whose ethics and struggle must be centered if we are going to have a real moral revival — not the ethics of the “religious left” or of progressive Democrats.
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What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen
…and to those long denied liberty and justice.
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The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This
The NRA released a terrifying recruitment video the other day, unsettling even by their standards,…
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The Origin Story of the Evangelical Mindset: A Conversation with Frances FitzGerald
For anyone who thought they could safely ignore the role of white evangelicals in American…
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How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes
Amid news that the GOP is trying once again to restart negotiations over their failed…
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From Empire to Shire: Rod Dreher’s Nostalgia for Middle-Earth
The author of “The Benedict Option” offers a social vision that omits centuries of Christian intellectual and theological history.
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