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Taken in Evangelical America

By Ryan Harper | February 18, 2020

Once again, I find I am a kind of believer.

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Goodbye, Tim LaHaye

By Kelly J. Baker | July 28, 2016

When I first encountered Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’ Left Behind (1995), I was sitting on the a sage-colored corduroy coach at my mom’s house. Left Behind rested on a…

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News Roundup: God is Woman

By Mary Valle | December 31, 2014

On Christmas, a shirtless member of the group Femen, Yana Zhdanova, took the baby Jesus from the St. Peter’s Square nativity scene and shouted “God is woman!” before a guard…

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Some Thoughts /About/ The Rapture

By Mary Valle | October 12, 2014

Why would God chaff all these people? — I don’t understand     Is this stuff even in the Bible? — I can’t get an answer     Dogs don’t…

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We Are Living Reminders

By Kelly J. Baker | September 3, 2014

HBO’s The Leftovers and grief

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A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse

By Mary Valle | October 20, 2011

Remember all the world-ending-on-May-21 hype earlier this year? Apparently God was playing more of his “I’m gonna pretend to high-five you, then pull my hand away at the last minute…