University of Southern California
USC Annenberg
  • About RD
  • Submissions
  • The Ashes Initiative
  • Contact
Religion Dispatches - Religion Dispatches Religion Dispatches
  • Racial Justice
    • Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
      Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
    • Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
    • White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
      White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      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
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
      Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      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
  • Politics
    • Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      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
frederick.clarkson@gmail.com'

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, 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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
Archive, Christian Nationalism, 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…

Read More
(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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/LawJune 1, 2020

Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right

By Frederick Clarkson

The late Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe, is back in the news, thanks to the…

Read More
(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyFebruary 7, 2020

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

Some may be surprised to learn that Wendsler Nosie Sr., former chairman of the San…

Read More
Previous 1 2 3 … 6 Next

RELIGION DISPATCHES

Religion Dispatches is an award-winning, independent, non-profit source
for expert analysis at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.


© Religion Dispatches
Back to top