When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement
Historian Colin Chapell’s latest book explores gender in the South through the lens of the Holiness movement.
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Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech
“Please don’t come here to solve our poverty when yours is so apparent,” the message goes.
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Why Beth Moore Walked It Back: This Election Season, It’s Tough Being an Evangelical Woman
Women hate Trump, while evangelicals are sticking behind him. But what about evangelical women?
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Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back
We will either learn to walk with one another, or we will be forced by dogma to condemn one another.
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Bad Scholarship A Poor Solution to Anti-Trans Politics: A Response to the New York Times’ “Is God Transgender?”
Doing justice to religious texts and fighting for trans* inclusion aren’t mutually exclusive.
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I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple
The moment I entered the Black Woman is God exhibit in San Francisco’s SOMArts gallery,…
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Late last month, two global authorities signaled their positions on gender, sex, and the rights of…
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Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee
Journalist Deborah Jian Lee is a few months into a book tour for Rescuing Jesus: How…
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Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion
Best-selling psychologist David P. Barash has religion all figured out: God the Father is simply the ultimate alpha male.
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Ask the Dust: Do Queer People Have to Explain Themselves to Religious Conservatives?
You have questions, big questions. Ask the Dust has answers. From the serious to the sacrilegious, no…
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