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Jonathan Tran
Jonathan Tran teaches theological ethics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is author of The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory and Foucault and Theology.
How I talk to my children about sex
Or rather, how I’d like to.
What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?
Could it really be all the different things people say it is?
One person’s self-made hell
Recently I attended the trial of a woman accused of killing a college student in a hit and run.
God or basketball?
Which one has a greater hold on my heart? Let’s take a look.
Anti-racism’s mission drift
Privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.
Thinking through abortion ethics in the classroom
What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than rights?
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In the Christian imagination, the two rightly go together.