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The Evangelical Abortion Myth

The rhetoric about abortion being the catalyst for the rise of the Religious Right collapses under scrutiny.
by Randall Balmer via Religion Dispatches on August 30, 2021
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Centuries of U.S. Imperialism Made Surfing an Olympic Sport

With an eye toward U.S. power, Americans spread the sport making its Olympic debut.
by Thomas Blake Earle via Made By History on July 25, 2021
Illustration of Jesus Christ showing anger at money changers in the temple

When Did Jesus Become a Capitalist?

How did a radical social activist, killed for his politics, become the figurehead of capitalist and imperial power?
by Steve Teare via The Nib on July 19, 2021
Linda Kay Klein as a teenager
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Shamed Over Sex, a Generation Confronts the Past

Former followers of an evangelical “purity” movement that promoted a strict view of abstinence are grappling with aftershocks.
via Retro Report on April 6, 2021
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No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity

White evangelicals have long been attracted to the conservative media's militant politics and regressive gender roles.
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez via Religion Dispatches on February 22, 2021
Artistic collage of black leaders surrounded by images associated with prohibition.

The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.
by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Politico Magazine on February 6, 2021
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Joe Biden's Harshest Critics Are Likely To Be Some of His Fellow Catholics

The fight between Biden and conservative Catholics will be about more than policy.
by Theresa Keeley via Made By History on November 30, 2020
Two men stand in a church doorway.

The Revival of Church Sanctuary

How a long-abandoned practice became a way for undocumented immigrants to seek protection.
by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi via New York Review of Books on November 10, 2020

The World’s Human Rights Convention and the Paradox of American Abolitionism

An inquiry into a utopian vision of abolitionism.
by Bennett Parten via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on July 29, 2020

Racism Among White Christians is Higher Than Among the Nonreligious. That's no Coincidence.

For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order.
by Robert P. Jones via NBC News on July 28, 2020

Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

Applying King to our contemporary moment.
by Justin Rose via Black Perspectives on January 20, 2020

My Friend Mister Rogers

I first met him 21 years ago, and now our relationship is the subject of a new movie. He’s never been more revered—or more misunderstood.
by Tom Junod via The Atlantic on November 12, 2019

The Christian History of Korean-American Adoption

How World Vision and Compassion International sparked an Oregon family to raise eight mixed-race children.
by Soojin Chung via Christianity Today on October 9, 2019

“Our Moral Obligation:” The Pastors That Counseled in Pre-Roe South Carolina

Before the Roe decision, at least 68 South Carolina clergymen actively counseled women on where they should receive abortions.
by Madeleine Ware via Nursing Clio on May 9, 2019
Enslaved people being baptized.

'Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World'

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."
by Katharine Gerbner, Casey Schmitt via The Junto on April 19, 2019
People stand outside the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham.

The American Church's Complicity in Racism

On the many moments when white Christians could have interceded on behalf of racial justice, but did not.
by Jemar Tisby, Eric C. Miller via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on April 2, 2019

Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.
by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen via Process: A Blog for American History on March 18, 2019

Winthrop’s “City” Was Exceptional, not Exceptionalist

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."
by Jim Sleeper via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 19, 2019

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.
by Asad Haider via n+1 on January 18, 2019
Drawing of "Uncle Sam," a common national personification of the U.S., crouched over a church. He appears to be listening to what is going on inside.

Under God

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?
by Jackie Roche via The Nib on November 30, 2018
The Rev. William Barber, the Rev. Liz Theoharis, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson gather outside of the U.S. Capitol during a Poor People’s Campaign rally in June, 2018.

The Social Gospel Roots of the American Religious Left

A review of Gary Dorrien's new book, “Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.”
by Vanessa Cook via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 31, 2018
Trump with eyes closed and head bowed as evangelist Paula White leads a prayer at the White House.

The Christian Nationalism of Donald Trump

The debate among American Christians over globalism and nationalism is nothing new — rather, it has been going on for decades.
by Gene Zubovich via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 17, 2018

Evangelical Fear Elected Trump

The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.
by John Fea via The Atlantic on June 24, 2018
Billy Graham at the pulpit.

American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.
by Seth Dowland via The Christian Century on June 19, 2018
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Religious Groups Are Fighting Trump to Keep Families Together

But they didn’t always oppose ripping kids from their parents.
by William S. Cossen via Made By History on June 19, 2018

The Last Temptation

How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.
by Michael Gerson via The Atlantic on March 8, 2018

Voices in Time: Epistolary Activism

An early nineteenth-century feminist fights back against a narrow view of woman’s place in society.
by Louise W. Knight via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 22, 2018

Are White Evangelicals Sacrificing The Future In Search Of The Past?

The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.
by Daniel Cox via FiveThirtyEight on January 24, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

Martin Luther King Jr. Spent the Last Year of His Life Detested by the Liberal Establishment

King was roundly denounced for his stances against the Vietnam War and injustices north of the Mason-Dixon line.
by Zaid Jilani via The Intercept on January 15, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK Now

The canonical image of Martin Luther King Jr. neglects many of his most important intellectual, ethical, and political critiques.
by Brandon M. Terry via Boston Review on January 9, 2018
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