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Diana Butler Bass

Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality. You can sign up for The Cottage, her newsletter “for those who feel dissatisfied, discomforted, or uncertain about religion,” here. Visit her website, dianabutlerbass.com, for more information.

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Religion Dispatches

Evangelical Groundhog Day: The 'Times' Identifies the 'Religious Fervor in the American Right' — Around Four Decades Late

In autumn 1980, I was a senior at a Christian college in California taking a course on the history of American evangelicalism. One November day, a fellow student brought a copy of the New York Times…
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Religion Dispatches

Post-Modern Progressives, or Liberalism Ain’t What It Used To Be

With whom does one make alliances for the sake of peace in the world? Post-modern progressive theology does not compromise, but neither does it insist on a single truth. In its journey toward justice, it keeps its eye on the practical.
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Religion Dispatches

Why I Am Still a Christian

A friend once asked Diana Butler Bass why she was still a Christian. The answer lies in the question of spiritual memory, and of a community that exists through time.
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