Writer Nathan Dixon's debut, "Radical Red," imagines Tea Party conservatives who find their ideological contradictions ...

The word “consubstantial” does not roll naturally off the modern American tongue. It’s one of those $5 words with Latin roots that tend to make the speaker sound pretentious or, if he trips ...

, a more literal translation of the Latin text. So, where the congregation now says “One in Being with the Father,” you will say, “Consubstantial with the Father.” And “Lord, I am not ...

That type of voice—crude, angry, dogmatic—is likewise embodied in the short story “Consubstantial,” midway through Radical Red, Dixon’s debut collection and the winner of the 13th annual ...