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Tape up some balloons! Blow some horns! It’s pub day!
I will be trying to take a big chunk of today off because the past few weeks have been wild! I want a chance to savor this moment. And I also want to reward and thank all of you who ha...
Tech Lords & Theocrats
September 15 should just be declared a national holiday for religion readers. You’ll be getting an excerpt of my new book, Damned If She Does in your inbox tomorrow. Many of you already received the book and a copy of ’s new book Live Laugh...
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An interview with Marla Taviano
Quick housekeeping note: I have my first book event, a “pre-launch,” today, September 10 at 7 pm in Minneapolis at Moon Palace Books, in conversation with Rev. Angela Denker, author of Disciples of White Jes...
Words and ankle monitors will break you
His name was Pierre
It has been two years since J.D. Vance made the false claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, an hour from where I live, were killing and eating pets. It was an idea traced back to far-Right activists and neo-Nazis. T...
My Dolly
She was a mirror to a lot of our greatest hopes, highest virtues
I was walking into a local library on Tuesday when I saw an AP alert on my cellphone that started with “Dolly Parton…” only to have my screen blotted out with a text from my...
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Reporter, author and student of ethics, making sense of religion, politics, and gender. Author of DISOBEDIENT WOMEN and (forthcoming) DAMNED IF SHE DOES: Why Women Quit Church and What It Means for the Future of Religion. Rooting for democracy.
Into books, reading, writing, learning, poems, art, antiracism, love, wholeness, and figuring out what makes you fart. Single mom of some amazing kids & cats.
Author of the Storybound & Stardust series | The Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Generation of Evangelical Families (Brazos, 2025) | Spiritual Treadmills (IVP 2027)
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