When the Duggars first appeared on TV, with their ever-expanding family population, mainstream viewers absorbed the…
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Every Woman I Know Had a Teacher Like Blake Bailey
There is rage, yes, but also endless disappointment. Before I even got out of bed this morning,…
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In her new book ‘The Making of Biblical Womanhood,’ history professor Beth Allison Barr reveals centuries…
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An appreciation of how wonderfully, revolutionarily boring Joe Biden has been as president. What’s President Joe Biden’s…
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The Man Who Predicted Pandemic Inequality a Century Ago
Edgar Sydenstricker was born into a studious family. His sister Pearl S. Buck, author of the…
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Who Will Follow Beth Moore Away From the Southern Baptist Church?
In October 2016, two days after Trump’s “grab them by the pussy” Access Hollywood video surfaced,…
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What It’s Like To Pastor QAnon Believers
During the early days of the pandemic, existing conspiratorial and politico-prophetic threads began to enmesh in…
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