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      After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right
    • Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram
      Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram
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      Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise
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    • After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right
      After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right
    • Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram
      Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram
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      How the Pro-Life Movement Gave us Donald Trump — and Why It Could Bring Worse
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    • The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion
      The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion
    • We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
      We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
    • As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
      As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
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    • It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
      It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
    • We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
      We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
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      11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You
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      Watch: Is The Religious Left a Mirage or Are Journalists Just Missing the Story?
    • Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
      Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
    • ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
      ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical

Joseph Laycock

Joseph Laycock is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University. In addition to Speak of the Devil (Oxford University Press, 2020), his books include The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle for Catholic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says About Religion, Play, and Imagined Worlds (University of California Press, 2015).

OMFG, Religious LibertyAugust 14, 2018

Neo-Nazis Call on ‘White Christians’ to Oppose Satanic Temple Rally

By Joseph Laycock

The convergence of conservative Christian and White Supremacist groups suggests this is really a struggle over who is a “real” American and who is not.

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Culture, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyAugust 13, 2018

Satanic Temple Organizing a Rally for Religious Liberty

By Joseph Laycock

The trouble started in 2015 when Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert sponsored a bill to erect a Ten Commandments monument at the capitol.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Joseph Laycock, OMFG, Religious LibertyMarch 20, 2017

Satanists Take Aim at School Spanking

By Joseph Laycock

There’s a connection between hitting children and cultural identity. Growing up in Austin, Texas, I…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Science, The CubitAugust 23, 2016

CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)

By Joseph Laycock

Almost no one was fooled last week when footage surfaced of what appeared to be…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, The CubitJune 16, 2016

Satanists Infiltrate a Ritual Abuse Conference in Oakland: Your Guide to What Happened and Why

By Joseph Laycock

In May, a group of Satanists infiltrated a conference for people who believe they’re the…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Joseph Laycock, RD Blog, Science, The CubitApril 6, 2016

Satanic Temple Protests Pseudoscientific Therapies for Satanic Abuse and Witchcraft

By Joseph Laycock

If you happened to walk past San Francisco’s Parc 55 hotel this past weekend, you…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Joseph Laycock, New Books, StoriesNovember 3, 2015

Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?

By Joseph Laycock

Did a group of Christian Vikings from Sweden and Norway travel by river to Douglas…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveSeptember 9, 2015

Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course

By Joseph Laycock

Could a course prevent public schools from becoming battlefields?

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(A)theologies, ArchiveJuly 9, 2015

Can You Make a Comedy About UFO Cult Mass Suicide?

By Joseph Laycock

Austin-based filmmaker David Jones is going to try.

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(A)theologies, Joseph Laycock, OMFG, RD BlogJune 23, 2015

Why Dylann Roof Acted on His Racism

By Joseph Laycock

It’s all about the apocalypse.

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