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      The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness
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      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
      Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
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    • At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
      At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
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    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
  • Christian Nationalism
    • At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
      At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
    • Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
      Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
    • As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon
      As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

Marcia Pally

Marcia Pally teaches Multilingual Multicultural Studies at New York University and is a regular guest professor in the theology department at Humboldt University. She is the author of The New Evangelicals, and Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics and Theologies of Relationality.

(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawMarch 1, 2016

Clinton vs. Sanders isn’t About Policy, it’s About Power

By Marcia Pally

On Super Tuesday, while commentators, coworkers, friends and family may debate the policies, pasts and perceptions of…

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(A)theologies, Guest Bloggers**, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesJanuary 11, 2016

Roy Moore’s Order To Stop Gay Marriage Licenses: A Case of Flawed Theology

By Marcia Pally

The order by Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore that judges stop issuing marriage licenses…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveDecember 18, 2015

False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix

By Marcia Pally

Trump, long up in the polls, stays up; Cruz is rising. What do they have…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, StoriesDecember 4, 2015

Act, Pray, Tweet: What the H*ll To Do About Gun Violence?

By Marcia Pally

We’re now averaging more than one mass shooting per day, The Washington Post reported last…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveDecember 2, 2015

“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

Since the Paris attacks, the right’s response to refugees crisis has been martial: we’re at…

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawNovember 16, 2015

Note to GOP Voters: “Political Freedom” Comes With Social Responsibility

By Marcia Pally

The Republican contest in this presidential election, as in many before, is between degrees of…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawNovember 11, 2015

GOP Debate Invokes Lincoln-Roosevelt Gospel, Candidates Take Turns Trampling It

By Marcia Pally

This week’s Republican presidential debate began with a visual homage to Abraham Lincoln and Theodore…

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