Theology

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• 1/16/2022
  

  What Happens When the "End Times" are Now?

  by Martyn Whittock

  Evangelical Christianity's enthusiasm for viewing current events as markers of the End Times is nothing new, but those tempted to mockery should nevertheless recognize how politically potent those ideas can be. 

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• SOURCE: The Millions
  11/11/2021
  

  Conquering Hell

  by Ed Simon

  "Hell’s tragedy is that those who deserve to go there almost never think that they will, while the pious shame-filled neurotic imagines those flames with scrupulous anxiety" – HNN contributing editor Ed Simon meditates on the American engagement with damnation. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/27/2021
  

  The Bishops Are Wrong About Biden — and Abortion

  by Garry Wills

  The historian of Catholicism argues that the US Bishops' demand to deny communion to Joe Biden over his abortion policies rests on a shoddy understanding of the Church's own history with the issue. 

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• 3/28/2021
  

  America Does Have an "Original Sin": A Response to James Goodman

  by Joshua Ward Jeffery

  "Original Sin" is a fit metaphor for longstanding inequities in American society, but it's important to understand that the original sin is settler colonialism and the seizure of indigenous land, which American civic religion has been all too willing to accommodate. 

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Examining Christian End Times Rhetoric in the Time of COVID

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  Historical amnesia and everyday privilege are what make it seem to some Christians that end prophecies are actively in progress.

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• 10-28-17
  

  The One Thing that Two Big Anniversaries This Month Have in Common

  by Ed Simon

  One celebrates the founding of the USSR, the other Protestantism. They involve theology (as does all politics).