Why Does Trump’s Authoritarian Christian Base Ignore Never-Trump Evangelical Leaders?
Here we are, a week and a half after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden became…
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‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]
Below is the second of a two-part interview with Charles Kriel and Katharina Gellein Viken…
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‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data
As a journalist taking assignments in war-torn areas, London-based American expat Charles Kriel developed an…
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Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?
Early in George W. Bush’s second term, not long after I started my Ph.D. work…
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Why the Media and Democrats Should Reject the Christian Right’s Pearl-Clutching and Address Problematic Religious Views
America is trapped in an abusive relationship—not just with the pussy-grabbing President Donald Trump, our…
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Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable
Have you ever noticed that for hardline ideologues, only their opponents are “doing politics,” while…
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Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties
The 2020 results of Ligonier Ministries’ and Lifeway Research’s State of Theology Survey, a project…
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News Flash: Christian Supporters of Kenosha Killer are Christians
With white evangelicals, America’s most pro-Trump demographic, currently in the news for sex scandals, committing…
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Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal
Yesterday, August 24, 2020, was the first day of classes at right-wing evangelical school Liberty…
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In Convention Event Democrats Embrace the ‘Nones’
What does it mean to put pluralism into practice? This is a serious question of…
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