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      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
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      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
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      Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
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    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
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      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
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      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
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      What Role do Feelings Play in Conspiracy, Racism and Climate Denial? Welcome to Phoning It In, Episode 1
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      Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
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      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
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    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
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      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
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    • With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
    • Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
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      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
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Frederick Clarkson

Frederick Clarkson is a Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates in Somerville, Massachusetts. He is the editor of Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America (Ig Publishing, 2008), and Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy, (Common Courage Press, 1997)

Archive, Christian Nationalism, Racial Justice, Religious LibertyApril 11, 2022

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

This Lenten season, when the First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois gathered for Sunday…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyMarch 29, 2022

Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to ‘the Enemies of God’ — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop

By Frederick Clarkson

If you’ve never heard of Gary North that may be because he wanted it that…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 16, 2022

The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope

By Frederick Clarkson

Christian Right legislation that has often seemed to be aimed at undermining or rolling back…

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Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeNovember 28, 2021

Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning

By Frederick Clarkson

“Man, as many people as we have in this school here, we ought to take…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawOctober 26, 2021

“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local

By Frederick Clarkson

One of the features of the rise of the Christian Right has been the development…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawSeptember 7, 2021

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

It was the best of the end times. It was the worst of the end…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/JusticeJuly 12, 2021

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/LawNovember 17, 2020

Beneath the ‘Wacky’ Paula White Video is a Dark and Deeply Undemocratic World Propping Up the President

By Frederick Clarkson

These are the end times for the presidency of Donald Trump and the White House…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/LawSeptember 29, 2020

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

You could be forgiven if, after watching the 2020 Democratic and Republican party conventions, you…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Racial JusticeJuly 10, 2020

State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)

By Frederick Clarkson

UPDATE, July 27, 2020: Rev. Dale Witherington recently returned to the scene of his Facebook…

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