Progressive Religion: It’s Time to Read the Room

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Everything in American religion changed after the media spectacle of the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes in the summer of 1925. The Scopes Monkey Trial, as it came to be known. That event left an indelible mark on the American psyche.

The Scopes trial underlined for many — both religious liberals and religious traditionalists — that natural selection would be the wedge…