Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism
After the Trump years and the January 6 insurrection, in which recognizably evangelical prayers and…
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‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6
In the twentieth century the word “cult” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that…
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Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics
In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote,…
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Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?
In 2012 James Carville was ecstatic on CNN as incumbent President Barack Obama had just…
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Biden’s New Domestic Terrorism Strategy Addresses Trump’s Omission of White Nationalism, But Fails to Address Targeting of Black and Brown Americans
Last week, the Biden administration published the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. With…
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We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization
As I noted previously here on RD, when it comes to covering American Christianity in…
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UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism
The following piece has been updated with an adendum titled: Is a Fixation on…
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What do the January 6 Commission, Covid Deaths and Gun Massacres All Have in Common? God’s Chosen
I’m going to try connecting things that don’t at first seem related. They’re the fight…
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Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation
The city of Spokane, Washington sits at the eastern edge of the state—a mountain range…
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Student Expelled from Sorority for Transphobia Illustrates the Problem with Evangelical Understanding of Pluralism
A prominent theologian, an angry conservative undergraduate, and the leadership of a sorority set out…
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