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Allison Vander Broek

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The Power of Ritual

To finish off our book club this year, my best friend and I are reading Casper ter Kuile’s The Power of Ritual. The book is

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Martyrdom and Memory

I’ve been remembering recently how martyrdom was such a prominent feature of my evangelical upbringing. I mean, no one I knew was martyred but there

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American Individualism

About four months into our How to Be a Good Citizen book club this year, my best friend and I realized we’d inadvertently settled on

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On Reparations

Last month my church held a series of discussions on reparations. It’s our penultimate session of an 11-month discussion series we’ve been completing together. We’ve

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White Evangelical Racism

I recently finished Anthea Butler’s new book White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. It offers a short and accessible, yet powerful, overview

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