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Attention, Please
A culture of distraction may detract from religiosity and lead to lazy secularism....
September 22, 2022
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A Global Perspective on American Evangelical Politics
White American evangelical Trumpism is a lot more white and more American than it is evangelical....
September 13, 2022
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What is Religious Appropriation and Why Does it Matter?
Accusations of cultural appropriation are increasingly common. But as a religious ethicist, I am not sure that is a good thing....
September 9, 2022
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Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools
American Christians must reckon with colonial history and cooperate with US government's “Road to Healing" initiative....
July 6, 2022
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Weary (and Wary) of Decisions, Opinions, and Polemics? Religious Wisdom Would Like a Word
Religion that is prescribed by a privileged few to control the lives of the many obfuscates human dignity, limits and cheapens life abundant, substitutes the trivial for the transcendent, and elevates a cruel justice that cannot admit its need for me...
July 1, 2022
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Bad Faith History: The End of Roe v. Wade and The Supreme Court’s Myth about Abortion in the United States
The world that the Court’s opinion imagines is intimately (and frighteningly) consonant with a white, Christian nationalist vision of our nation....
July 1, 2022
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Duty! Thou Sublime and Mighty Name
In responding to duty, we testify to our worth and our dignity as free human beings....
June 28, 2022
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Jihad Against Capitalism: FNKSDA and the Islamic Eco-socialist Movement in Indonesia
A group of environmental activists in Indonesia see Islamic values as necessitating a struggle for socialism....
June 23, 2022
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Human Goods, Environmental Evils
The same mastery of nature (human and nonhuman) that has made civilization possible now imperils us....
June 16, 2022
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Thoughts and Prayers
As inhabitants of the only country in the world where school shootings are routine, the American faithful must not pray for serenity, but for courage....