Hollis Phelps

Hollis Phelps is an associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Mercer University, in Macon, GA. He writes regularly on the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.

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Religion Dispatches

What the Critics of the Mindfulness Trend Don't Get

It’s not simply reinforcing western privilege or turning us into contented drones.

Hollis Phelps

April 14, 2015

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Religion Dispatches

How to Become an Atheist in Twelve Short Months

Ryan Bell no longer believes in God, exactly. Bell is the former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor who last January made a resolution to live as an atheist, to live for a “ year without God.” More…

Hollis Phelps

January 14, 2015

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Religion Dispatches

Dear Public Employee: Think the Government is "Hostile to Religion"? Get Another Job.

Same-sex marriage is now legal in North Carolina. It was, of course, bound to be so eventually. Even Thom Tillis, Speaker of the House of Representatives in North Carolina and current GOP nominee for…

Hollis Phelps

October 30, 2014

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