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    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
    • Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
      Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
  • Politics/Law
    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Don’t Buy Alito’s Assurances: Here’s What Happens Next After <em>Roe</em> Falls
      Don’t Buy Alito’s Assurances: Here’s What Happens Next After Roe Falls
  • The End of Roe
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
      Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
  • Christian Nationalism
    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
      Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
    • How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
      How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
    • Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
      Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
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Daniel Schultz

Daniel Schultz is a minister in the United Church of Christ. Write to him at: dan@religiondispatches.org.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/LawMarch 24, 2022

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

By the time you read this, Ketanji Brown Jackson will almost certainly have been confirmed…

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Archive, Racial Justice, Russia Invades UkraineMarch 17, 2022

‘Russkii Mir,’ the Russian Equivalent of ‘Blood & Soil’ Ideology at the Heart of Putin’s War, Explained and Rejected by Theologians in New Statement

By Daniel Schultz

A new statement by Orthodox Christian theologians—some of whom sign from Russia—dramatically illustrates what’s at…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Russia Invades Ukraine, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 7, 2022

Kirill’s Sermon May Be Bad Preaching and Even Worse Theology — But it’s a Top-Notch Rejection of Liberal Democracy

By Daniel Schultz

Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, gave a sermon on forgiveness this…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Media Analysis, OMFG, Racial Justice, Science, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 23, 2022

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

In my younger, snottier days, I would have made short work of this piece by…

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Archive, Media AnalysisFebruary 7, 2022

Satanic Harmonies and Zoom Church: Readers Respond

By Daniel Schultz

I promised from the outset of this column that it would feature feedback from readers,…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Media Analysis, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 1, 2022

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

In a New York Times opinion piece released over the weekend, Tish Harrison Warren argues…

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Archive, Culture, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/LawJanuary 26, 2022

Turn On The News: The Times Has to Make a Choice: It Can’t Laugh at Satanic Claims and Take the Christian Right at Face Value

By Daniel Schultz

Allow me to play devil’s advocate for a moment, so to speak. Have you ever…

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Archive, Media Analysis, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeJanuary 11, 2022

Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

It’s hard to imagine a news article less challenging to the cultural hegemony of conservative…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyJuly 26, 2021

UPDATED: Turning Catholic School’s Anti-Mask Theology Into a Faith Argument is Just Fine With Religious Right (Even if it is Based on Garbage Theology)

By Daniel Schultz

UPDATE, July 27: The Catholic journalist Tony Spence points out that the Diocese of Lansing…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/LawJuly 6, 2021

Confronting the Rise in Conspiracy Thinking … With Wisdom Literature

By Daniel Schultz

Oh, dear. The fringes are coming together. As reported by the Washington Post, a new…

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