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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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The Revolutionary Joy of Desmond Tutu
There is a danger in softening Tutu’s legacy, but we make the same mistake in the opposite direction if we forget his contagious, all-embracing joy....
January 6, 2022
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Luther Goes Global
This week most Lutherans, many Protestants, and not a few “general public” participants will turn the page from observances of the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. Some church figures—pastors, choir directors, tour leaders, etc.—confess...
November 6, 2017
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Reformation Jostlings
On this day, 499 years ago, a friar proposed 95 theses for debate and “posted” them (in today’s world and words), meaning he mailed them to his superior, the Archbishop of Mainz, and/or nailed them to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, Germany. Wh...