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Christian community, immigration, books | Another Gospel: Christian Nationalism & the Crisis of Evangelical Identity is out Aug 27: tinyurl.com/27twxyyz

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Joel Looper’s Biography

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Religion writer. Baylor adjunct. Bylines: LA Review of Books, Australian Broadcasting Company, Leadership Journal, Sojourners, the Other Journal, Church Life Journal, Arc, and more. Author of Bonhoeffer's America: A Land without Reformation.

Joel Looper’s Journalist Portfolio

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How Would Bonhoeffer Vote?

How Would Bonhoeffer Vote?

LESS THAN A MONTH before the 2016 presidential election, evangelical journalist and biographer Eric Metaxas m…

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Bonhoeffer Co-Opted

Bonhoeffer Co-Opted

THE BIOGRAPHY of the German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer has been a hot commodity since the publ…

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Will Love Cast Out Fear? The Syrian Refugees and Christian America - The Other Journal

Will Love Cast Out Fear? The Syrian Refugees and Christian America - The Other Journal

On the Monday after the Paris attacks, Oliver Willis (@owillis) of Media Matters for America tweeted, "if onl…

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Jordan Peterson is wrong about identity politics

Jordan Peterson is wrong about identity politics

If Jordan Peterson is now the West's most famous living public intellectual - and even his detractors rarely …

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Can 'Gentle Ethnocentrism' Remain Gentle? Richard Rorty and Our Political Crisis

Can 'Gentle Ethnocentrism' Remain Gentle? Richard Rorty and Our Political Crisis

Now that the potential international crisis of a Donald Trump presidency is upon us, it's time America had a …

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Sex was Never Safe: Why Consent is Not Enough in the Post-Weinstein Era

Sex was Never Safe: Why Consent is Not Enough in the Post-Weinstein Era

Joel Looper is a doctoral candidate in divinity at the University of Aberdeen. "Sexual morality," Stephen Mar…

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Articles

My health insurer wants cancer to win It won’t let a drug manufacturer help with my expenses

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By Joel Looper
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Controversial “copay accumulator programs” allow insurers to double-dip on patient deductibles. Credit: Getty Anthem Blue Cross Blue ShieldCancerCarelon RxCo-195ColoradoCopay Accumulator ProgramDeductiblesERISAHealthcareSB 23-195 Prefer us on Google On Nov. 19, 2024, I was diagnosed with polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer.
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Standing Under the Cross: Essays on Bonhoeffer's Theology by Michael Mawson (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), xiii +216 pp.

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By Joel Looper
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A Response to Miles Smith IV’s CSR Review of Another Gospel

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By Joel Looper, Barry Harvey, Jessica Martin
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Another Gospel: Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity Published by . Eerdmans in 168pp / $19.99 / 9780802884275 Miles Smith IV begins his review of Another Gospel by telling the reader that the book is about Christian Nationalism—which, he writes, can mean “nearly anything” pastors, professors, or politicians find “exotic” at “the intersection of politics and religion.” At such a characterization, the discerning reader will likely raise an eyebrow.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Coldwater Daily Reporter, MI

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Sure.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

I'm no longer editing.