But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap
What do you call parents who side with the ADF, a right-wing legal advocacy group,…
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Evangelicals Continue To Speak Over, But Not To Ex-vangelicals
Christianity Today magazine just can’t seem to leave exvangelicals alone. On October 19, they published…
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A Love Letter to #Exvangelicals and Those Deconstructing Their Toxic Faith
I’m astounded by people who have the intellectual honesty, courage, and fortitude to examine their…
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Exvangelical TikTokkers Aren’t a Sign of the End Times, But Here’s What Evangelicals Need to Understand About ‘The Falling Away’
On June 27, David Jeremiah, who sat on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board, preached a…
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Katy Perry’s Evangelical Hangover
Despite an American Idol judging gig, a baby girl with Orlando Bloom on the way,…
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Why ‘Respectable’ Evangelicals Can’t Rein in Evangelical Conspiracy Theorists
According to a recent blog post by David French, former staff writer for the National…
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Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence
In order for the GOP leadership to continue to do nothing on guns they need loyal foot soldiers to deliver messaging that appeals to their base. What this messaging, familiar to those of us who grew up in the Christian Right, tells us about the “soul” of the Republican Party is not pretty.
Read MoreChristian ‘Purity’ Guru’s Loss of Faith May Signal a Coming Reckoning For Conservative Christianity
Attitudes about sex have come to signal a person or group’s attitudes about modernity itself. Arguments about gender roles, birth control, abortion, sex education, and LGBTQ rights have become central to the religious and political identity of American Christians.
Read MoreFor LGBTQ People Christian Schools Can Be Traumatizing
#ExposeChristianSchools was launched shortly after it was reported that Karen Pence was teaching at a Christian school that excludes LGBTQ students and teachers. It quickly went viral with many sharing their own stories of surviving Christian schooling.
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“Exvangelical” Podcast: Safe Space for Those “Living In, Leaving, or Coming to Terms With” Evangelicalism
In June 2015, I asserted here on RD that “we need to listen to the voices…
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