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What Are “Women’s Issues?”: Interview with Emily S. Johnson Part II

Andy Seal: Among the women you write about, only Beverly LaHaye saw herself as an explicitly political actor (not including Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, of course). I very much appreciated how you both acknowledged the political effects of all these women’s actions while still seeking to remain open to the way Morgan, Bakker, and even Bryant thought of themselves as nonpolitical. In other words, I didn’t feel that you imposed your own decision about where to draw the line between the political and the nonpolitical. How did you try to walk that line between explicitly contradicting them (and labeling Read more

Bus Work

In the 1970s, Jerry Falwell and other conservative evangelicals built their brand on cross-town busing. I’m not talking about federally-mandated school busing to achieve desegregation – not yet, anyhow. For Read more

A Gleam Across the Wave

Last year I wrote a post encouraging scholars of American intellectual and cultural history to give the Bible its due.  I’m following up that post, almost a year to the Read more