Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?
In 2018, I published an article here on Religion Dispatches about how abortion is a…
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First Roe, Then Contraception: Unless Action is Taken, Supreme Court is About to Strike Down Fundamental Rights of American Women
Sixteen days before Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, the Supreme Court scheduled a conference on a…
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What’s Wrong with Taming the Tongue? ‘Gossip’ and the Limits of Evangelical Abuse Prevention Efforts
As has become increasingly clear to outside observers in recent years, conservative evangelicals don’t exactly…
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I Grew Up Evangelical and the Christian Nationalist Insurrection Did Not Surprise Me
On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob…
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Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing
UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached…
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With This Thanksgiving Bombshell SCOTUS Began Implementation of an Ultraconservative Agenda
The unsigned, midnight opinion dropped like a bombshell on Thanksgiving. Five ultraconservative members of the…
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No, Amy Coney Barrett Won’t Surprise Anyone
I’m guessing T.M. Luhrmann was trying to be reassuring. In a piece published Tuesday in The Atlantic,…
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Why the Media and Democrats Should Reject the Christian Right’s Pearl-Clutching and Address Problematic Religious Views
America is trapped in an abusive relationship—not just with the pussy-grabbing President Donald Trump, our…
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Trump’s Nominee to Fill RBG’s Seat Is Unfit. By Definition.
The name will be announced later this week. The president, a former reality show host,…
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Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine
One has to imagine that the rabidly anti-LGBTQ Franklin Graham, President and CEO of the…
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