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I was delighted to see two recent excellent articles by two of my favorite scholars, so I thought I\u2019d share.<\/p>\n

Kirk Cameron\u2019s Growing Circle of Reconstrucitonist Friends<\/a>, by Julie Ingersoll<\/p>\n

Behind the Right\u2019s Phony War on the Nonexistent Religion of Secularism<\/a>, by Rick Perlstein<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"