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White Evangelical Racism Has Always Been a Political Power Grab

Anthea Butler explains how racism has been essential to growing the power of white evangelical Christians

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9 min readApr 7, 2021

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Evangelicalism is having a moment of reckoning. What once seemed like a conservative, Christian way of life became so baldly…

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