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Jonathan Malesic

Jonathan Malesic is a writer in Dallas. He is the author of Secret Faith in the Public Square: An Argument for the Concealment of A White supremacist and antisemitic form of Christianity that believes White Europeans are descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Learn more (Brazos Press, 2009). His essays on religion, work, and education have appeared in The New Republic, America, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and other publications. He has a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia and is currently writing a book about the spiritual costs of the American work ethic. Subscribe to his newsletter at http://tinyletter.com/jonmalesic.

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Religion Dispatches
The Trumpocalypse began a year ago today. That means it’s time to check in with the working-class white voters who flipped the Rust Belt for now-President Donald Trump last November 8. As Michael…
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Religion Dispatches
There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin. - Linus van Pelt The Trump era changes everything, including how I view Halloween cartoon…
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Religion Dispatches
Nobody’s perfect. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Paul wrote to a Christian community in Rome. It’s an important verse in American evangelical Christianity. Because all have…
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