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      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
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      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
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      As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
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      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
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      Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
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      It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
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    • Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
      Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
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      It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
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      Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
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Katherine Kelaidis

Katie Kelaidis is a writer and historian whose work focuses on early Medieval Christianity and contemporary Orthodox identity in non-traditionally Orthodox countries. She has also written for Salon, Ms. Magazine, and The New Republic.

Archive, OMFG, Russia Invades UkraineMarch 14, 2022

Prominent Russian Orthodox Church Rejects Pro-Putin Patriarch Kirill, Raising Tensions Within Orthodox World

By Katherine Kelaidis

The Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas in Amsterdam has a rather prominent place in…

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Archive, Russia Invades Ukraine, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 7, 2022

If Kirill’s Bizarre Sermon Blaming War on Pride Parades Comes as a Surprise, it’s Time to Learn the History

By Katherine Kelaidis

Today is Clean Monday, the first day of the Orthodox Christian Lent. Yesterday was Forgiveness…

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Archive, OMFG, Russia Invades UkraineMarch 4, 2022

A Church (Further) Divided: Putin’s Patriarch Now Faces a Rebellion From Within the Russian Orthodox Church

By Katherine Kelaidis

While the world waits for Russian oligarchs to tire of their yachts being seized and…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Russia Invades Ukraine, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 2, 2022

A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

If someone from 1965 were to arrive in a time machine, there’s likely much about…

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(A)theologies, Archive, History/Theology, OMFG, Russia Invades UkraineFebruary 28, 2022

Could Patriarch Kirill’s ‘Evil Forces’ Against Russia and the Russian Church Refer to Jews?

By Katherine Kelaidis

If it wasn’t already blatantly apparent that Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is not “calling for…

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Archive, Media Analysis, Russia Invades UkraineFebruary 25, 2022

No, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is Not Calling for Peace — In Fact, He’s Putin’s Accomplice

By Katherine Kelaidis

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus is not calling for peace in Ukraine, and…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Russia Invades UkraineFebruary 24, 2022

The Enigmatic Role of Anti-Semitism in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

By Katherine Kelaidis

As noted recently in the New York Times and elsewhere, the Jews of Ukraine have…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Russia Invades UkraineFebruary 21, 2022

Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War

By Katherine Kelaidis

Putin has now ordered Russian troops into Donetsk and Luhansk. The first major conflict between…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Politics/LawJanuary 19, 2022

Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer

By Katherine Kelaidis

The Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic has become a perfectly likely hero in the international…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, OMFG, Religious LibertyFebruary 8, 2021

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

Last week a six-week-old baby died in Suceava, Romania during his baptism into the Romanian…

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