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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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      White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
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      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
      What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
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      Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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Caroline Matas

Caroline Matas is a Postgraduate Research Associate in Religion in America at Princeton University. She studies contemporary American religious identity and media. She can be found tweeting @carolinematas.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, Media Analysis, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 7, 2024

A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy

By Caroline Matas

Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has…

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Archive, Books, New Books, OMFG, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/JusticeApril 2, 2024

A New Book Traces the Influence of Racism and Imperialism on White Christian Feminism

By Caroline Matas

As a scholar of American evangelicalism, I often spend my time writing and teaching about…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Culture, Media Analysis, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeJune 15, 2023

Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?

By Caroline Matas

Conservative Christian social media influencers have an important message to deliver after a new documentary…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 3, 2023

Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors

By Caroline Matas

Imagine my embarrassment when I heard from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s media relations…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 27, 2023

Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators

By Caroline Matas

Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention voted during a plenary session to disfellowship six of…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Science & TechnologyOctober 11, 2021

‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

When I signed up to attend a 3-day conference at the flagship young-Earth creationist organization…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeJune 25, 2021

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

In the midst of tense debates around race, gender, and partisan politics, the 2021 Southern…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeMay 4, 2021

Inside the Evangelical Beliefs and Practices that Facilitate Abuse in Families like the Duggars’

By Caroline Matas

Last Thursday, Josh Duggar’s sexual misconduct once again brought his reality TV-famous family into the…

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Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeMay 22, 2018

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

While Perkins has expressed interest in using his new position as an opportunity to support “religious freedom and the defense of religious minorities,” he might find that the USCIRF actually doesn’t require a significant change in focus from his own preoccupations with Christians’ rights.

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderMay 22, 2018

Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

At first glance, Tony Perkins, who recently complained that the Secretary of State isn’t doing enough…

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