Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion
A recent Fox News headline, “Americans who Practice Yoga Contribute to White Supremacy, Michigan State…
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Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives
Nobody’s perfect. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Paul wrote…
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Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization
Just as no American, after Charlottesville, can doubt that the current US president remains deferential to an extremist white supremacist base that rallies in his name, so too no American can pretend Confederate memorials don’t serve as public shrines to a treasonous worldview
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The Southern Baptists’ “All Lives Matter” Approach to Racial Reconciliation Is Spiritual Malpractice
When the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting “went off the rails” last month following the…
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Black Pastor Who Introduced SBC Resolution Against Alt-Right Assumed It Would Be a “Slam Dunk”
The Texas pastor who drafted the original resolution calling on the Southern Baptist Convention to…
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Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America
Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, now in its second iteration, deserves its shorthand designation:…
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The Deadly Politics of (in)Difference Is Killing Trans Women of Color
Just nine weeks into this year, at least seven trans people—all women of color, and…
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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism
David Nirenberg, historian of Judaism, spoke with RD about Twitter, Trump, and the parallels between anti-Semitism and misogyny.
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“Killary” must be stopped or the Republic will cease to exist.
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Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?
Did a group of Christian Vikings from Sweden and Norway travel by river to Douglas…
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