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Part II: Why Some Approaches to Spirituality Are a Bridge Too Far
Part I: Gods that Fail and the Seductive Nature of the Forbidden
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The United States is growing increasingly similar to Russia, but some of the similarities have been there for a long time
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Part II: The Religious Power Grab
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Part I: Rationalizing the Path of Least Resistance
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If you have to choose between Elon Musk and evangelical missions alleviating disease and poverty, you hold your nose and choose the evangelicals
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Part II: Nostalgia in Microcosm and Some Personal Reflections on Nostalgia as a Transgender American
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The answer, I fear, might have to do with porcine wings and an extreme cold snap in a very hot place
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How red states pioneered the authoritarian mechanisms now going national
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The song we grew up with was a harbinger of American authoritarianism all along
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Secular Advocacy and the Fight for Transgender Rights Can and Should Go Together