Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
Breaking up is hard to do, and I am not at all prepared to discard…
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Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking
Readers of RD don’t need to be told that the image of “The First Thanksgiving”…
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What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis
Fundamentalist Christian support for President Trump is a commonly known, if poorly understood, political dynamic…
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The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult
At 400 pages, Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American…
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#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church
Late last month, when my pastor Isaac Villegas was getting his ministerial credentials suspended for…
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An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right
What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise…
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Why We Should Teach Theology in the Public University
Theology, which influences so much of public discourse, should not be the exclusive property of the faithful.
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Let There Be Light: Handwritten Draft of King James Bible Reveals Secrets of Its Creation
The King James Bible may well be the greatest work of literature ever written by committee—and…
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His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President
Randall Balmer on Jimmy Carter, the role of the president’s faith, and the real reason for the rise of the Religious Right.
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The “One True Christian” of His Age?
What inspired you to write Spider in a Tree? I live in Northampton, Massachusetts, across the…
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