When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For
One of the biggest questions I received after writing about Trump, evangelicals, and the end…
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The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion
According to a recent study, those who have a stable religious or secular identity generally report…
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Re-branding Is Not the Cure: Campolo & Claiborne Miss the Core Problem in Evangelicalism
There certainly was a time when leading evangelicals railed against money grubbing and corporate domination, but that time is long past.
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Looking for Islam in All the Wrong Places: A Response to Nabeel Qureshi
Nabeel Qureshi made his debut into the evangelical anti-Muslim apologetics market with his conversion narrative…
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Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”
“I held my tongue as she told me, ‘Son, fear is the heart of love.’…
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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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Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast
Now that the sexual abuse allegations against Josh Duggar have resurfaced and made the news,…
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Bill O’Reilly’s Biblical Misremembering
The Bible is full of mistakes.
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Graeme Wood on ISIS: No Such Thing as Objective Critique
The debate continues to deepen over Graeme Wood’s Atlantic cover story on ISIS: Murtaza Hussain…
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It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More
Even if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less.
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