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Religion Dispatches
It’s been a little over a year since the president first took office, and the role of white evangelical support for Donald Trump remains under the microscope. Last year I wrote a story about the…
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An open letter to the Southern Baptist Convention for its tepid response to white supremacy and reproductive rights
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Religion Dispatches
There’s a lot happening in Hopkinsville, Kentucky the weekend of August 18. The town is hosting cast members from The Walking Dead and JEM at a local Comic Con; the director of the Vatican Observatory…
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There are those who would co-opt American Orthodoxy, make it the voice of white nationalism. Churches need to confront the problem head on.
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Dear Texas Legislators, The Lone Star State still holds a ten-gallon spot in my heart, but I am afraid that the warm, welcoming place I loved, the place that proved so crucially formative to my sense…
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Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the “ State of Religious Liberty in America.” What was perhaps most striking about the hearing was how dated many of the speeches and…
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A review of Eboo Patel’s new book, “Interfaith Leadership: a Primer.”
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A conversation with Rev. Faye London, of Tennessee’s SisterReach.
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These activists have made headlines—and, in many cases, served prison sentences.
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The old refrain that white liberals are the bane of systemic change applies differently when we are looking at the record of white liberals during the first half of this country’s 240-year official…
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