MRBlog | Synodal Spin and the Authorized Jesus
By Thomas J. Whitley Now that the much-discussed, oft-maligned Synod on the Family has concluded, we can engage in everyone’s favorite pastime:
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. From Belarus … With Love – By David Shneer
On singing Yiddish in Belarus By David Shneer In the 1920s, passengers arriving to Minsk, the capital of the new Belorussian Soviet Socialist
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MRBlog | God, Aliens, and the Confirmation Bias
By Thomas J. Whitley The aliens are coming. Maybe not next week, but they are definitely coming. At least that’s how many have
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MRBlog | Donald Trump and The Myth of the Evangelical Voting Bloc
By Thomas J. Whitley War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. We might add to this list of dystopian contradictions: Evangelicals
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MRBlog | The Genius of Pope Francis’ Subtle Rhetoric
By Thomas J. Whitley Much has been made of Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. In a supposedly increasingly secular age, it has
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MRBlog | Carly Fiorina’s Religious Test For Office
By Thomas J. Whitley Ben Carson has been in hot water since his comments on Meet the Press Sunday morning in which he
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MRBlog | Then They Came For The County Clerks: The Martyrology of Kim Davis (and Mike Huckabee for President)
By Thomas J. Whitley First they came for the Bakers, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Baker.
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MRBlog | The Birmingham Quran and the Palimpsest of History
By Aaron W. Hughes We like nothing more than a really big story about religion. If we are religious, it makes us feel good
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MRBlog | God Was the Big Winner at the #GOPDebate
By Thomas J. Whitley Depending on whom you ask, either Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina (from the “Happy Hour” debate), Megyn Kelly (one of the
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MRBlog | Audrey DuBose and The Demand for Black Forgiveness
By Thomas J. Whitley We are trying to raise self-confident children for long lives, not hashtags for slaughter. So wrote Gary Younge on the
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