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R. Drew Smith

R. Drew Smith, a political scientist and Baptist minister, serves as Professor of Urban Ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He also holds an honorary professorial appointment at the University of South Africa and is Co-Convener of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race.

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Religion Dispatches
In 1995, the first of the Left Behind series was published—a hugely successful franchise that dealt in fictionalized enactments of Christian endtimes scenarios. Based upon a Biblical eschatological…
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Religion Dispatches
Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside this man” (Mark 5: 9) In the wake of the murders of nine African Americans at Emanuel AME…
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