What a treat to see God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church American Nationalism, and the Religious Right reviewed in The Journal of Church and State, a favorite journal of mine. (Check out this month's article on covenant marriage and the Catholic church by Thomas More Garrett to see why.) The full review is available for free online, even if you don't... Continue Reading →
Religion Dispatches: 10 Questions on _God Hates_
Religion Dispatches' 10 Questions series long been one of my favorite columns. It has let me see what the authors of some of my favorite books were thinking about as they researched and wrote. I often share the columns with students as they read those books in the classes I teach, and it's fun to... Continue Reading →
Author Q & A at John Fea’s The Way of Improvement blog
John Fea is one of my favorite Christian scholars--a historian by training, a great defender of the teaching and scholarship of history, and a person who, thankfully, takes his role as a public intellectual very seriously. He is also an astute political observer whose commentary on the 2016 election and, in particular, evangelical engagement with... Continue Reading →
_The New Territory_ Reviews _God Hates_
Have you read The New Territory yet? It's devoted to "land, people and possibilities" of the lower Louisiana Purchase: Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas and includes feature articles and literary pieces. A beautiful place deserves a beautiful magazine, and The New Territory is gift to us. The second issue has just been published, and... Continue Reading →
_God Hates_ on _Up to Date_ with Steve Kraske
If you live in the Kansas City area, you're lucky for lots of reasons, and KCUR's Up to Date, hosted by Steve Kraske, is one of them. I'm lucky to get to be a guest on a show I've long enjoyed and learned from. If you are in the listening area, you can find Kraske's... Continue Reading →
A Preview of KCPL’s “God Hates” Talk
For folks attending tomorrow night's talk at the Kansas City Public Library, here are three questions I plan on talking about during the lecture: How does Westboro Baptist Church's theology support their picketing? (See the picture below, of a church member picketing at the Supreme Court in 2010 while other church members are inside arguing... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Barrett-Fox 