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October 2014

October 09, 2014

His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelcial President

What inspired you to write Redeemer?I was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Deerfield, when Jimmy...

October 09, 2014

More School, Less Church

Social science has traditionally considered education and religion to be somewhat opposing forces. As societies...

October 09, 2014

Are the Osteens Evangelical Outliers?

Recently Victoria Osteen, wife of pastor Joel Osteen, made some comments that concerned many Christians....

October 08, 2014

The Rise and Fall of the American Seminary

General Theological Seminary’s campus in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan is everything you’d want in...

October 07, 2014

The Suffocation of Black Women in the Age of Prosperity Theology

We live in the age of prosperity preachers: Joel Osteen, Paula White, T.D. Jakes. These...

October 06, 2014

What We Can Learn From The Failure Of The Religious Right (And Why They’re In A Panic)

The Religious Right has failed, and now they’re panicking.They’ve been this way for quite some...

October 06, 2014

The Silence of the White Church

I am a Christian and a black man. My wife and I wife attend a...

October 05, 2014

Cornel West: The State of Black America Under Obama

The great irony of our time is that in the age of Obama the grand...

October 05, 2014

Pseudo-pacifism: Why Priviledged People Love Quoting MLK

If you’re someone that is outspoken on the issue of race chances are, at one...

October 05, 2014

Nadia Bolz-Weber’s Foulmouth Articulation of Christianity

Nadia Bolz-Weber bounds into the University United Methodist Church sanctuary like a superhero from Planet...

October 04, 2014

Evangelicals Revisited

My department chair warned me against writing the book. He said it would be professional...

October 03, 2014

And the Young Ones Shall Lead Them: The Ferguson Rebellion and the Crisis in Black Leadership

The blood of Michael Brown has seeded the soil of a great American revolution—sprouting yearlings...

October 03, 2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings

October 01, 2014

A Reflection on Ferguson: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Activism, Experience, and Transformation

October 01, 2014

Turning Tables Teach-In: Christian Response to Racialized Violence

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September 2014

September 30, 2014

3 Ways Jesus Read the Bible That Evangelicals Are Told Not to Do

For Evangelicals--and I'm among them--Jesus and the Bible are high on the priority list. Not...

September 30, 2014

How a Black Gay Mormon Kid Lost His Faith

Growing up Mormon in rural Alabama sheltered me from many lessons that my friends and...

September 30, 2014

Is America Losing its Religious Vitality?

Over the last week, I have been seeing a confluence of concerns regarding religious vitality...

September 30, 2014

Religion as a Social Construct

I think we’re ready to get into the philosophical arguments about religion now. This is...

September 29, 2014

Racism, Oppression and the Hope of the Gospel

A few months ago, I sat in church with tears streaming down my face like...

September 28, 2014

The Health Effects of Leaving Religion

Curtis Penfold got kicked out of his apartment, fired from his job, and left Brigham...

September 27, 2014

My Journey to Feminism: How Questioning Religion Started It All

I was raised as a Lutheran and my life growing up was filled with religion;...

September 27, 2014

It’s Official: Religion Doesn’t Make You More Moral

Suppose you actually do have an angel over your shoulder telling you the right thing...

September 27, 2014

The Myth of Religious Violence

As we watch the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis) rampaging through the Middle East,...

September 27, 2014

Spirituality, Religion, and Black Women’s Well-Being

A number of studies have suggested that religion plays a critical role in black Americans'...

September 27, 2014

Hip Hop And Religion

For a while, during our adolescence in the nineties, it felt like hip-hop could answer...

September 27, 2014

Public Sees Religion’s Influence Waning

Nearly three-quarters of the public (72%) now thinks religion is losing influence in American life,...

September 26, 2014

How Lecrae Found Success Mixing Rap and Theology

He’s been crowned the “new hip-hop king” and his newest album, Anomaly, topped iTunes and...

September 26, 2014

Episcopal Church’s Katharine Jefferts Schori To Step Down After Current Term

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman elected to head a national...

September 25, 2014

Provoked to Politic: The Pew Foundation, Clergy, and Public Theology

I believe that people should weigh their political opinions in light of their faith commitments....

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