Let’s talk about cherry picking the Bible

As a progressive theologian I get accused rather often of cherry picking the Bible. The people who level this accusation at me typically do so because I am so vocal about social justice and in my support for the LGBTQIA community. These conservative Christians claim that because I say that being LGBTQIA is neither a …

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Project 2025: Russ Vought’s horrifying vision in chapter two

Project 2025 has been in the news quite a bit lately as more people are awakening to the all too real dangers of American Christian nationalism. As part of my research on Christian nationalism, I've been slowly going through the Project 2025 document which I downloaded from the website before it was removed -- a …

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Let’s get biblically literal: Abortion

For over fifty years the Christian right in the United States has been attempting to ban abortion. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the faux pro-life conservative Christians have been doubling down in their misogynistic attempts to control women's bodies. Take the 2023 "Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel," a manifesto of …

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