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Nearly four years ago on June 1, 2020, Federal officers violently cleared peaceful protestors from Washington DC’s Lafayette Square in order to make way for Trump to stand in front of St. John’s…

In the waning days of 2023, a banner year for Christian nationalism, Oklahoma State Representative Jim Olsen introduced a bill that would force every public school to display his version of the Ten…

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade , many Christians have gone to their Bibles. Some in joy as they celebrate. Some for comfort as they worry about what comes next. Others for…

After the Trump years and the January 6 insurrection , in which recognizably evangelical prayers and symbols featured prominently, America’s conservative, mostly white evangelical Christians aren’t…

Despite the Bible’s ubiquity, despite the Bible’s appearance as a book like any other on our twenty-first century shelves, despite its frequent citation in private and public discourse, the Bible…

Nancy Pelosi has come under fire because her “favorite Bible verse” isn’t actually in the Bible. But there’s a long and storied history of misquoting the Bible, including a couple of figures you’d least expect.

The practice of commenting on religion and politics frequently takes one to strange places. Say, for example, having to parse a statement like this defense of former Alabama Supreme Court Justice and…

Occasionally, a bit of scripture will float into public discourse, often in the context of politicians and civilians sorting through the implications of some bit of policy. The citations are as a rule…

Doing justice to religious texts and fighting for trans* inclusion aren’t mutually exclusive.

Welcome to the first in a sporadic series of posts on popularly misunderstood, misused, or misleading terms, stories, and ideas from the world of religion. In this first installment, “Miss Conception…