Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?
It’s a story that can inspire even the most cynical among us. A person endures…
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Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade
In the wake of every mass shooting in this country, we have a brief moment…
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What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
More times than I can remember, I’ve had to ascend the minbar and address a…
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Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr
Earlier this month Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke announced to the world that he had contracted…
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The Tyranny of Politesse: Why Decency Does Not Require us to Wish Trump a Full and Speedy Recovery
Let me state for the record. There is no moral obligation to wish Trump a…
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There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle
A plague is upon us. And white evangelicals, naturally, are on the scene—theologizing the COVID-19…
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The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]
This story should sound familiar, especially given the blame thrown at godlessness in the wake of mass shootings and the “thoughts and prayers” offered as a “solution.”
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Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence
In order for the GOP leadership to continue to do nothing on guns they need loyal foot soldiers to deliver messaging that appeals to their base. What this messaging, familiar to those of us who grew up in the Christian Right, tells us about the “soul” of the Republican Party is not pretty.
Read MoreAfter More Mass Shootings It’s Time to Call Out White Supremacy in the Pews
I’m a preacher and I can say with near certainty that 99% of the sermons preached yesterday morning didn’t get close to the level of truth-telling that’s needed. Nor will the compulsory “thoughts and prayers” pronouncements, nor the words spoken at memorial services over the next days and weeks.
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Parkland Activists Don’t Care What You Think And They’re Not Interested in the Faith Wars
It’s been interesting to wake up this morning and discover that the #NEVERAGAIN kids have…
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