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      What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
    • A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist
      A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist
    • In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church
      In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church
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    • What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
      What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
    • New Data Strongly Suggest a Correlation Between Disaffiliation and Christianity’s Association with the U.S. Right
      New Data Strongly Suggest a Correlation Between Disaffiliation and Christianity’s Association with the U.S. Right
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      The Spirit of January 6th: The Theology of This Seldom Discussed Movement Animates the Growing Threat to U.S. Democracy
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    • Exactly 30 Years Before Illinois AG’s Devastating Sexual Abuse Report a Plan for Prevention was Implemented, Then Scrapped
      Exactly 30 Years Before Illinois AG’s Devastating Sexual Abuse Report a Plan for Prevention was Implemented, Then Scrapped
    • Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism
      Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism
    • What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
      What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
  • Christian Nationalism
    • What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
      What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
    • A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist
      A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist
    • New Data Strongly Suggest a Correlation Between Disaffiliation and Christianity’s Association with the U.S. Right
      New Data Strongly Suggest a Correlation Between Disaffiliation and Christianity’s Association with the U.S. Right
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    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
    • Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
      Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
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      As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon
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Michelle Goldberg

Michelle Goldberg, a contributing editor for Religion Dispatches, is the author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World (Penguin, 2009), and the New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.

(A)theologies, Books, Culture, Politics/LawFebruary 3, 2012

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided Explores the Dark Side of Positive Thinking

By Michelle Goldberg

A new book reveals the historical roots and conservative uses of the positive thinking movement, showing how it encourages victim-blaming, political complacency, and a culture-wide flight from realism.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Sexuality/GenderApril 12, 2010

Making Up Your Own Truth (Video)

By Michelle Goldberg

In the latest diavlog in RD‘s collaboration with Bloggingheads.tv, Anthea Butler and Michelle Goldberg discuss the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Christian militias, the GOP’s spiral of extremism, and more.

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderMarch 9, 2010

Anti-Choice Doc Aims to Link Reproductive Rights to ‘Black Genocide’

By Michelle Goldberg

Anti-abortion activists are screening an expertly-made documentary to black audiences across the country. Maafa 21 creates a highly selective, distorted history of the reproductive rights movement and frames abortion as a tool of eugenics and genocide.

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderNovember 30, 2009

Uganda’s Radical Anti-Gay Measure and the American Religious Right

By Michelle Goldberg

A proposed measure in Uganda would make repeated homosexual activity punishable by death. Anti-gay activists in the United States may think that it goes too far, but they laid the groundwork for it.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 18, 2009

Heterosexual With Issues: Haggard’s Self-Hate

By Michelle Goldberg

Former pastor Ted Haggard is desperate for redemption, but he can’t do the one thing that might make it possible—admit and accept that he’s gay.

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Culture, Politics/LawJune 18, 2009

The Birth of Un-Cool: How Disgusted Liberals Became Neoconservatives

By Michelle Goldberg

In the same way that actual radicals were chic among left-leaning socialites in the late seventies, NASCAR and pork rinds were a mark of authenticity for conservatives throughout the Bush years. But now some Republicans are rethinking their down-market identities.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 16, 2009

Obama’s Divisive Choice of Rick Warren

By Michelle Goldberg

In his zeal to appeal to all, the president-elect chose a pastor to give the invocation at his inauguration who has compared gays to pedophiles and abortion to the Holocaust. Why did he do it?

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 16, 2009

The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism

By Michelle Goldberg

Why have homosexuality and gender-bending displaced Jews and anti-Semitism as the bogeymen of fundamentalists across the globe?

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 15, 2009

Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party

By Michelle Goldberg

While the LDS Church’s leadership role in the passage of Proposition 8 may have been a surprising new direction for observers here in the United States, the Church has been instrumental in the organization of a world-spanning alliance of right-wing Christians and Muslims.

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