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Evangelicals Already Had the Greatest Story in the World, Until They Revised It

by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...

Being Anti-Gay Is Not “Because the Bible Tells Me So”

by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...

The Hell That Patriarchy Promises and Too Often Delivers: A Very Personal Review of Women Talking

Susan Trollinger Still from the trailer to Sarah Polley’s Women Talking (2022). I was silent for something like two years. He terrorized me. Central to the terror was that I never knew exactly when he would come after me. What I knew was that he would. It might...