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Where Franklin Graham Has Gone Wrong

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Ronald Reagan’s Legacy & the Religious Right

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Loud on Poverty, Quiet on Abortion: The Danger of Selective Theonomy

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Beyond Activism Innocence

It was my pleasure this week to interview Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, whose book, The World is Not...

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Social Justice, Guns, and God

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Santa’s Elves, Revealed

I enjoyed this description of a community of nuns from Margarita Mooney: “What is life...

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