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Join us as we journey into history, depravity, and hypocrisy as we take a closer look at Danny McBride’s The Righteous Gemstones! Can people this bad be redeemed? Isn’t that what the whole Christ story is about? And how close to reality is this, anyway? Let’s find out.
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- What HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones gets right about evangelicals by Emily St. James and Alissa Wilkinson
- The Righteous Gemstones: The Good, The Bad, & The Brilliant by Wisecrack
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- How The Righteous Gemstones Quietly Became TV’s Most Homoerotic Show by Nadine Smith
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- Righteous Gemstone Wiki
- God bless The Righteous Gemstones, the TV show that helped me reckon with my religious trauma by Jay Ashdown
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