Christian – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:47:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Christian – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Violent Christian Nationalism in Modern America https://brewminate.com/violent-christian-nationalism-modern-america/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:01:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=272571 Christian nationalism in modern America blends religious identity with political power, shaping exclusionary narratives that, in some cases,

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]]> WWPD: Christianity’s Journey from the Message of Jesus to the Doctrine of Paul https://brewminate.com/paul-and-the-transformation-of-early-christianity/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:03:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270988 The earliest followers of Jesus formed a diverse movement shaped by ethical teaching and expectation of God’s kingdom.

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]]> Televangelist Scandals of the 1980s: Moral Authority, Media Power, and Tribal Loyalty https://brewminate.com/televangelist-scandals-1980s-jim-bakker-jimmy-swaggart/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270784 In 1980s America, televangelists fused moral authority, media spectacle, and partisan identity, revealing how scandal tests, but rarely

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]]> Early Christian Martyrs and Civil Disobedience in the Roman Empire https://brewminate.com/early-christian-martyrs-civil-disobedience-rome/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:03:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270685 Early Christian martyrs challenged Rome not through rebellion, but through refusal, asserting divine authority over imperial power. By

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]]> Medieval Heresy Trials and “Spiritual Madness”: The Pathologizing of Spiritual Dissent https://brewminate.com/medieval-heresy-trials-and-spiritual-madness-the-pathologizing-of-spiritual-dissent/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:49:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=269974 The medieval persecution of heresy reveals a political and intellectual strategy that reaches far beyond theology. Ecclesiastical authority

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]]> Christianity’s Decline, Rising Pluralism, and the Christian Nationalist Backlash https://brewminate.com/christianitys-decline-rising-pluralism-and-the-christian-nationalist-backlash/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:06:29 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266186 The United States is becoming a religiously diverse nation where Christianity no longer holds the numerical dominance it

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]]> The Long Historic Arc of Progressive Christianity: Faith, Justice, and Reform https://brewminate.com/the-long-historic-arc-of-progressive-christianity-faith-justice-and-reform/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:06:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266193 Progressive Christianity developed through a long trajectory of reform movements that challenged injustice and reshaped Christian tradition. By

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]]> Killer God: Divine Violence and the Myth of Biblical Pro-Life Ethics https://brewminate.com/killer-god-divine-violence-and-the-myth-of-biblical-pro-life-ethics/ Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:41:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=264854 To worship the biblical God as “author of life” is to venerate a being who repeatedly chose death

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]]> Covenant and Control: Cotton Mather and Theocracy in Massachusetts Bay Colony https://brewminate.com/covenant-and-control-cotton-mather-and-theocracy-in-massachusetts-bay-colony/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:09:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=261730 The Massachusetts Bay Colony remains one of history’s most striking attempts to fuse politics and religion into a

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]]> The Social Gospel Movement and Christian Nationalism in 19th-Century America https://brewminate.com/the-social-gospel-movement-and-christian-nationalism-in-19th-century-america/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:07:51 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=261745 By defining Protestant morality as the foundation of the republic, Social Gospel leaders sought to sanctify the state

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