Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
A month ago, I argued here on RD that America’s national conversation about Christianity is…
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Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation
LOS ANGELES, CA—To the average passerby, Azusa Street is little more than a brick-lined pedestrian…
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Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors
On Tuesday, December 15, disgraced former Houston Police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was charged with…
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I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’
The six white men who lead the seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention released a…
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Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV
It was billed as unprecedented, a religion-themed tour to “broadcast a message of unity” to…
Read MoreThe Kidnapping of Nigerian Girls, A Primer
Nigeria is arguably the most important country in Africa. With 175 million people, it’s certainly…
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The Catholic-Evangelical (Non-)Coalition
Are Catholics and evangelicals aligned on the culture war issues?
Read MoreTrue Detective’s Occult Conspiracy
A reflection of the region’s complex religio-cultural heritage or good ol’ fashioned othering?
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The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution
Along comes Jersey Shore with its cast of self-described Italians. These are not the magical white folks of world-conquering, democracy-building myth-but they’re still “white”. They behave like the Museum assumes only people of my color behaved. The sum total of their television life is a kind of late-capitalist tragic anthropology: doing laundry to go to parties, in order to have sex. For me, it’s been tremendously liberating to know that people of my color and faith are not the only people who are embarrassing to watch on television.
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