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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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The logical, and theological, problem with Red Letter Christians

The logical, and theological, problem with Red Letter Christians

Red Letter Christians have valuably reminded us of some of Jesus's central teachings about the way his discip…

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Scapegoating, Responsibility, and Neighborly Love in the Plague

Scapegoating, Responsibility, and Neighborly Love in the Plague

"It so happened," wrote Michele de Piazza, a member of the Franciscan order from Sicily, that in the month of…

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An American Reichstag Fire

An American Reichstag Fire

On February 27, 1933, less than a month after Adolf Hitler had been sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, an imp…

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How to Avert a Trump-Created Humanitarian Crisis in El Salvador

How to Avert a Trump-Created Humanitarian Crisis in El Salvador

It is 1981. Members of a small community called Valle Nuevo near the rural town of Santa Marta, El Salvador a…

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Liberty University Theology

Liberty University Theology

Around the time President Trump began his campaign, his former attorney Michael Cohen hired John Gauger, the …

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Why Evangelicalism Must Change or Die

Why Evangelicalism Must Change or Die

I awoke on Martin Luther King Jr. Day morning to find that yet another video had surfaced from the insurrecti…

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Why Evangelicalism Must Change or Die

Why Evangelicalism Must Change or Die

I awoke on Martin Luther King Jr. Day morning to find that yet another video had surfaced from the insurrecti…

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