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Christian Century | cisgender people | Commonweal | Pope Pius XI | transgender people

Transitioning Out of Mediocrity

Cisgender dysphoria, transgender identity, etc., were not part of my formal curriculum in theology or religious studies, which ended at 3:00 p.m. on graduation day, December 14th, 1956. The earliest known use of the term “transgender” was in 1974, an...

March 13, 2017

White evangelical Christians | John Stormer | McCarthy Era | same-sex marriage | transgender people | Federal government | Federal debt | 2016 GOP primaries

Explained: Donald Trump's Unlikely Support from White Evangelicals

Donald Trump is deeply divisive among white evangelical Christians. In a recent story on NPR, one evangelical called the billionaire New Yorker a “reprehensible” and “wicked” man. Even so, Trump has done well enough among conservative Christians to b...

May 26, 2016