Paula Cooey

Paula Cooey serves as the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Harmon Professor Emerita of Religion at Macalester College. Her latest book is Willing the Good: Jesus, Dissent, and Desire, published by Augsburg Fortress Press, 2006.

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Religion Dispatches

Welcome to the RNC's Elmer Gantry Tent Revival

I took Trump as my savior; you take him too—NOT.

Paula Cooey

July 22, 2016

hillary clinton
parody and performance art
republican party
donald trump
the supernatural

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Religion Dispatches

"Who Prays?" A Soul At War Finds No Refuge

“We are innocent people, Lord.” So prayed Diamond Reynolds as police handcuffed her and put her and her four-year-old daughter into a police car. Officer Jeronimo Yanez had just fatally shot her…

Paula Cooey

July 12, 2016

Law Enforcement
philando castile

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Religion Dispatches

Why Won’t the President Say “Islamic Terrorists?”

Donald Trump has tried to make much about why President Obama won’t use the phrase “ Islamic terrorism”: Although the President and I have not discussed the reasons, I can think of several good ones…

Paula Cooey

December 15, 2015

islam
terrorism
Al-Qaeda
donald trump

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