The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’
Me, starting column: Well, actually, an evangelical sign-on petition calling white nationalism a heresy…
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I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’
The six white men who lead the seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention released a…
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QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement
If you’ve been online at any point in the past year—if not, welcome!—your aimless clicks…
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Reading Racism: In Confronting White Christian Fragility ‘Feeling’ is as Important as Ideas
“How does it feel to be a problem?” – W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls…
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Why ‘Respectable’ Evangelicals Can’t Rein in Evangelical Conspiracy Theorists
According to a recent blog post by David French, former staff writer for the National…
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Southern Baptist Leader Al Mohler Addresses Past Racist Comments; But the Past Isn’t the Problem
No. It was not an incredibly stupid comment. And no, a trap was not cleverly…
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Where’s the 2020 Democratic Faith Outreach Discussion… Or Has the Folly of Courting White Evangelicals Finally Hit Home?
The 2020 election season is ramping up. Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic…
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Are the Southern Baptists, America’s Largest Evangelical Denomination, About to Get Even More Conservative?
There is perhaps no easier way to illustrate the history and present realities of white…
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When the ‘Biblical View’ for Evangelicals Was That Life Begins at Birth
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was recently castigated by evangelicals and other conservative Christians for saying that, according to his read of the Bible, life begins at first breath. But there was a time, not long ago, when that same belief was at the center of evangelical thought. How quickly the Bible can change.
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The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments
If they were to fully and meaningfully implement this policy, I doubt that the Convention would be left with any churches as members, for they all remain complicit with racist and sexist structures that rob many of us of our very humanity.
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