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      Even if Voters ‘Get What They Asked For’ it’s More Likely to Cause a Fascist Death Spiral Than a Lesson Learned
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      Progressive Christian Election Response ‘Give us Barabbas’ May Be Well-Meaning — But Functions as Anti-Jewish Dogwhistle
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      New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
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    • Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
      Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
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      New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?
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    • Phoning It In: ‘Heathen’ Isn’t a Neutral Religious Description — It’s Also a Significant Force in the Creation of Race in the US
      Phoning It In: ‘Heathen’ Isn’t a Neutral Religious Description — It’s Also a Significant Force in the Creation of Race in the US
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      Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations
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Anita Little

Anita Little is the editor of the Remapping American Christianities initiative at Religion Dispatches. Prior to that, she was the associate editor at Ms. magazine where she spent three years covering the intersections of gender, race and class. Little's work has been published in Ms., Angeleno, Alternet, Ebony and Pacific Standard. She is also a 2011 alumna of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderMarch 1, 2017

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

It looks like for all the Dems’ effort, Trump barely mentioned women’s issues in his speech last night.

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Archive, Politics/Law, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderFebruary 22, 2017

What Does It Take to Fell a White Nationalist? (Hint: Pedophilia)

By Anita Little

Turns out it’s quite a lot!

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Archive, Culture, Remapping American ChristianitiesFebruary 14, 2017

“Let It Be Glorious”: Sunday Night Worship With Chance and Bey at the Grammys

By Anita Little

When I listen to these albums, it feels like church, it feels like home.

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Remapping American Christianities, Special FeaturesJanuary 19, 2017

“Integrated into a Burning House?”: A Pre-Inauguration Conversation with Rev. Cecil Murray

By Anita Little

RD met with Rev. Cecil Murray to discuss how the black church’s past might inform his future.

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesNovember 21, 2016

“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

By Anita Little

November 8th was, for so many of us, the death knell for any claim white evangelicals as a group had on caring for “the least of these.”

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Religious Liberty, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderNovember 3, 2016

Sexist, Homophobic Representatives of “The Black Church” Just Want to Make Black America Great Again

By Anita Little

To present this group of 25 clergy as a microcosm of what black America wants and thinks is lazy and dangerous.

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Liberty University’s #NeverTrump Petition Is No Shot Heard ‘Round the World
Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesOctober 14, 2016

Liberty University’s #NeverTrump Petition Is No Shot Heard ‘Round the World

By Anita Little

Young evangelicals have been slow to defect from the Trump movement.

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Remapping American ChristianitiesSeptember 29, 2016

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

A conversation with Rev. Faye London, of Tennessee’s SisterReach.

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Culture, Remapping American ChristianitiesSeptember 22, 2016

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

A Q&A with the Rev. Yolanda Pierce, director of DC’s new Center for the Study of African American Religion.

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Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Special FeaturesSeptember 2, 2016

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

Talking with artist Lisa Auerbach about art, America, and big box religion.

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