Evangelical Christianity

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  8/2/2021
  

  We've Begun to Confront Christian White Nationalism. But What About the Source Text?

  by Dianne M. Stewart

  Critics of emergent White Christian Nationalism too often stop short of a key point: the Bible's explicit endorsement of war, conquest and genocide back up an eliminationist political outlook on the right. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/25/2021
  

  The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood: Prof. Beth Allison Barr's Historical Challenge to Evangelical Gender Roles

  “Women think all of this is the Bible because they learn it in their churches,” Barr told me. “But it’s really a post-Second World War construction of domesticity, which was designed to send working women back to the kitchen.”

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• SOURCE: Vox
  7/12/2020
  

  Is Evangelical Support for Trump a Contradiction?

  Religious historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez explains why Trump wasn’t a trade-off for American evangelicals.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/19/2020
  

  Fundamentalist Pandemics

  by Juan Cole

  What evangelicals could learn from "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam."

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• SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
  5/19/2020
  

  Analysis: Al Mohler, Southern Baptist Leader, Says He Was ‘Stupid’ To Defend Slavery

  In December 2018, Albert Mohler, longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, released a report detailing and denouncing the school’s legacy of supporting slavery and segregation. However, evidence suggests both the denomination's and Mohler's personal reckoning have been incomplete.