Jonathan Merritt is author of the book Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing — and How We Can Revive Them and a contributing writer for The Atlantic.
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Roy Moore and the moral mirror of hatred
The rise and fall of the Christian bookstore
Is God boosting Stephen Colbert's ratings?
Pat Robertson, Christianity's crazy uncle
God, child abuse, and the limits of religious freedom in America
Why the media can't ignore Donald Trump
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