Why Won’t Evangelicals Get the COVID Vaccine?
MARCH 17, 2021 BY ADAM LEE We got very lucky in our quest for a coronavirus vaccine. The mRNA approach, untried in humans until now, worked spectacularly well. It yielded two vaccines with…
On Christian Hypocrites: Ravi Zacharias Edition
FEBRUARY 17, 2021 BY ADAM LEE I have to admit, it’s satisfying to see titans of the religious right exposed as corrupt frauds and hypocrites. In the past, I’ve taken particular…
When Gender Theology Doesn’t Fit in Our Boxes: Then and Now
JUNE 26, 2019 BY ANDREA L. TURPIN I love to study people who don’t fit in boxes. These people explode our assumptions about which ideas or which actions go together. They…
#Woke Evangelical Timeline
MAY 14, 2019 BY D. G. HART Jemar Tisby has a new book out contending that the history of the church’s complicity in racism means evangelicals can no longer act as if they…
Trump The Anointed?
By Paul A. Djupe and Ryan P. Burge Last fall, we wrote about the extent to which white Protestants believed Donald Trump was anointed by God to be president of the United…
Father Found Guilty, Mom Takes Plea Deal After Starving Daughter For ‘Religious Reasons’
FEBRUARY 25, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Faith Healing Kills: Conservative Christian parents in Michigan who refused to get their dying daughter medical attention because of “religious reasons” now face 25 years…
Evangelists Sometimes Didn’t Understand Jesus
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY FELLOW DYING INMATE Evangelists were elites representing two percent of the total population who could read and write—because their context was far removed from the Galilee, sometimes…
Why Are You Still Going to a Church that Does Bad Worship?
FEBRUARY 9, 2020 BY JONATHAN AIGNER I think it’s a legitimate question. I should probably included a disclaimer here. If you’re not already concerned with bad worship in the church, or…
Young Earth Creationism: The Ultimate Fandom
FEBRUARY 3, 2020 BY LIBBY ANNE Could Noah’s Ark Have Been Made of Wood? reads an Answers in Genesis headline. What interested me more was the summary on my feed reader. Say…