How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream
This is not a majority Catholic court. It’s the Supreme Court that the strange alliance of the religious right built.
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The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation
Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color.
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Is #MeToo Misogyny ‘Unbiblical’? Southern Baptist Women Test Limits of Biblical Inerrancy
If conservative Christians want to challenge the misogyny in their institutions, they should be applauded and supported. But their call for change will remain problematic as long as they claim Biblical inerrancy as their reason for this call.
Read MoreBusting a Myth of Evangelical Glory Days … and More, in White Supremacy Quiz
If American evangelicals can no longer point to the “glory days” when they were on the right side of history with regard to race, then it becomes much more difficult to avoid a reckoning.
Read MoreThe Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address
On Saturday the Liberty University community heard a commencement address from an evangelical Christian who disagrees with Trump and Falwell Jr. on almost every major policy issue of the age.
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“I Think the White Evangelical Church is Dead”: Dr. Russell Jeung on ‘Guilt’ vs. ‘Shame’ and Decolonizing Asian-American Christianity
People of color are a few short decades away from making up the majority of…
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A 14-Point Rebuttal to The Nashville Statement from a Straight Cis Christian Man
In the wake of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s “Nashville Statement,” RD published commentaries by…
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A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump
Trump is not a Christian warrior; he is, however, a warrior for Christ.
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Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield
An interview with the author of “Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith”
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Dobson’s Baby: Trump’s Baptism at the Evangelical-Washing Font
Donald Trump is now a “baby Christian“? Now that Trump has become the presumptive GOP nominee—the…
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