Step Right Up And Get Your Low-Priced ‘Pro-God Content’! Donald Trump Enters the Bible Business
Nearly four years ago on June 1, 2020, Federal officers violently cleared peaceful protestors from…
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Oklahoma Bill Would Violate Basic Freedoms, Rewrite the Ten Commandments
In the waning days of 2023, a banner year for Christian nationalism, Oklahoma State Representative…
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Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, many Christians have…
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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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The Bible May Be Stranger Than You Think … And Why It Matters
Despite the Bible’s ubiquity, despite the Bible’s appearance as a book like any other on…
Read MoreIf Pelosi Is Guilty, So’s Jesus
Nancy Pelosi has come under fire because her “favorite Bible verse” isn’t actually in the Bible. But there’s a long and storied history of misquoting the Bible, including a couple of figures you’d least expect.
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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: The Disgusting Religious Defense of Roy Moore
The practice of commenting on religion and politics frequently takes one to strange places. Say,…
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Bad Scholarship A Poor Solution to Anti-Trans Politics: A Response to the New York Times’ “Is God Transgender?”
Doing justice to religious texts and fighting for trans* inclusion aren’t mutually exclusive.
Read MoreMiss Conception: Donald Trump the (Self-Styled) Devil?
Welcome to the first in a sporadic series of posts on popularly misunderstood, misused, or misleading…
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Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful
I have had the honor of working extensively with the Rev. Dr. William Barber II,…
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