Christian nationalism
Douglas Wilson’s theology of victim blaming
The Christian nationalist pastor proposes that women are responsible for preventing men from committing sexual violence—by being subservient to them.
A religion too wild to nationalize
After 250 years, US Christianity remains too diverse, splintered, and strange to be conscripted into any one political project.
Whose Christian nationalism?
If political power were distributed based on a census of the founding era, the United States would be run by Episcopalians and Congregationalists.
What’s the connection between evangelicalism and conspiracy theories?
According to Jared Stacy, it’s fundamentally about language and story—and it goes back to Colonial America.
Practicing compassionate patriotism
Recent books by Amanda Tyler and Drew Strait offer concrete, actionable advice for resisting Christian nationalism.
Songs that call me home to Puerto Rico
Bad Bunny’s music and activism have reconnected me to roots I thought were severed beyond repair.
Mandatory mourning
What the responses to Charlie Kirk’s death reveal about truth, power, and the Christian call to honest grief
The blasphemy of national Christianity
When push comes to shove for nationalist Christians, ethnicity comes first.
Evangelical reckonings
Randall Balmer, David Gushee, and Tim Alberta diagnose what’s gone wrong.
What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?
Could it really be all the different things people say it is?
Episode 40: Religion scholar Eddie Glaude Jr., author of We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
A conversation with Eddie Glaude about Ella Baker, Black leadership, Malcolm X, and more
Episode 39: Pastor and activist Bruce Reyes-Chow, author of Everything Good About God is True
A conversation with pastor and activist Bruce Reyes-Chow about Spirit, Desmond Tutu, baptism, and more
Episode 36: Ethicist David Gushee, author of Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies
A conversation with ethicist David P. Gushee about democracy, patriotism, authoritarian reactionary Christianity, and more
What Christian nationalism is and what to do about it
Pamela Cooper-White details best practices for difficult conversations that privilege listening, reflexivity, curiosity, and care.
Christian nationalism vandalizes the imagination
When churches whitewashed their walls, they left themselves vulnerable.
Christian nationalism is thriving in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Understanding the political situation in the US’s mirror-image nation
Episode 9: Historian Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne
A conversation with historian Kristin Du Mez about motherhood and writing, Christian Nationalism, masculinity and patriarchy in evangelicalism, and more