PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About
Like a comet closing in on Planet Earth, the US presidential election is hurtling toward…
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Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?
Almost as soon as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz…
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Election Reporters: Here’s Why Simply Descriptors Like ‘Christians’ Can Have Enormous Consequences
Here at Religion Dispatches, we have an informal policy that “religion is as religion does.”…
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Already Beatified by the Right for Surviving an Assassination Attempt, Must We All Pray for Donald Trump?
I had some finessing to do on Sunday. I filled in for a colleague the…
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In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology
In her just-released book Soul By Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to…
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Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook
The Project 2025 plan published by the Heritage Foundation is, in the words of Peter…
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For White Christians ‘Anti-Christian Bias’ Reflects ‘Anti-White Bias’ According to New Research
When social psychologists Marah Al-Kire and Michael Pasek primed White members of a research panel…
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Prophecy and Prosperity are Keys to Republican Christian Nationalism According to New Poll
This morning, PRRI released a new study on religious change in the US with implications…
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New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump
It’s not every day a legitimate paradox turns up in national polling. But the Pew…
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Katie Britt Wants You to Be Afraid — It’s the Fuel That Feeds Conservative Power
Last week, Katie Britt, one of Alabama’s two Christian nationalist senators, provided a now-notorious rebuttal…
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