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What happens when a progressive Christian historian and theologian talk about everything you aren’t supposed to discuss at dinner? Let’s find out:)
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The Indictment Edition of Ruining Dinner
American Saints in a Cynical Age
Ruining Dinner… and Date Nights
Welcome to the Post-Christian Century
Ruining Christmas Dinner
Ruining Election Night Dinner
The Over-Rated Genie God
Bad Blood, Civil War, and other Soothing Topics
Shall the Fundies (Keep) Winning?, Abortion, and Black Holes
Theology and Spirituality in a Time of Rupture
White Evangelical Theopolitics, John Shelby Spong, & Jesus
20 Years of Religious Decline
Jesus After Religion and Beyond Fear
Ruining Dinner with Diana Butler Bass and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
Evangelical Decline, the Supreme Court, and the Horizon of Possibility
Debating, Praying, and Living with Tyrants
Religion, Politics, & the Elephant in the Room
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