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I grew up in overlapping communities—a Baptist church and an evangelical Christian school—within which I was often cautioned or even commanded to stay away from “worldly” preoccupations. But…
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4 Half-Truths American Christians Have About Land
Adaptation from Every Somewhere Sacred by Ben Norquist and Brian Miller American Christians have some uniquely American myths about land. With the historically unique relationship of Americans to land, and…
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We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity, an excerpt
When I was in my twenties, I finally acknowledged that my faith was breaking. For years, my belief in the God of the Bible and Jesus’s love had sustained me and…
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Timshel Translation: An Idiomatic Bible Translation
By B. CoilThe year is 2019 and I have just left a series of church gigs in which I came up against an increasingly large number of voices who said I could…