Evangelical Women Celebrities: A Crisis of Authority
Erica Ramirez on Kate Bowler In The Preacher’s Wife, Kate Bowler introduces readers to a group of powerful evangelical women leaders. Through this
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American evangelicalism
MRBlog | America’s Religion Problem
By Thomas J. Whitley Emma Green’s interview of Michael Wear, the former director of Barack Obama’s faith-outreach efforts, for The Atlantic has many
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MRBlog | Religious Cover for an Aspiring War Criminal
By Charles Halton On July 28, 2016 conservative evangelicalism’s most prominent ethicist threw his support behind a presidential candidate who repudiates practically
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Why Place Matters – By James Bielo
James Bielo on Mark Mulder’s Shades of White Flight Racial inequality plagues America. This fact is central to our national story and continues
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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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When America Was Born Again – By Neil J. Young
Neil J. Young on Steven P. Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years In 1976, as Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White
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Divided by Faith – By Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey on Nancy D. Wadsworth’s Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing Nancy Wadsworth’s stimulating new work on the politics of
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Divided by Reason – By David R. Swartz
David R. Swartz on Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. In 1994, historian Mark Noll published his
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First Impressions #20: Amy DeRogatis
Art Remillard talks with Amy DeRogatis about her new book, Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism. DeRogatis is Associate Professor of
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