Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement
Last Tuesday, just days before Idaho became one of a handful states to see a…
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Will ‘Pandemic Time’ Save Us From the Inhuman and Destructive Demands of ‘Fossil-Fuel Time’?
In our recent book on environmental ethics, Kevin O’Brien and I deal quite a bit…
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Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse
In her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, the philosopher Kate Manne coined…
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Louie Giglio ‘White Blessing’ Incident Reveals Something Critical About Evangelical Efforts to Address Racism
On June 14th, as the city of Atlanta reeled from the murder of Rayshard Brooks…
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In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!
On Monday, I and a group of womanist Presidents and Deans, decided that we would…
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‘Jesus is my Vaccine’ Has a Millennium-Long History Rooted in Antisemitism
In early April, the internet was entranced by televangelist Kenneth Copeland summoning the wind of…
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How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion
Honestly, we blame ourselves. We should have known that releasing an episode of Keeping It…
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Is the Satanic Temple Just an Elaborate Prank? 10 Questions for the Author of ‘Speak of the Devil’
What inspired you to write Speak of the Devil? I started writing on The Satanic…
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Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals
Since late December, 2019, when retiring editor-in-chief of Christianity Today Mark Galli published his infamous…
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A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
Since the turn of this century, following the news is like experiencing a daily repudiation…
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