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    • 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
    • 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
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    • 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
    • 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
    • My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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    • 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
    • Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual
      Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual
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Robert Repino

Robert Repino is an editor of religious studies and history for a scholarly publisher, and his essays have appeared in Slate, The Revealer, Flux, Sojourners, Reactor, and the OUPBlog. He is also the author of several works of fiction, including Mort(e) (Soho Press) and Spark and the League of Ursus (Quirk Books).

Archive, Christian Nationalism, Election 2024, Media Analysis, Politics/LawNovember 1, 2024

With So Many Christians Again Supporting Trump, Pundits and Fellow Christians Refuse to Entertain the Simplest Explanation

By Robert Repino

If the polls are right, then the majority of Christian voters will cast their lot with Donald…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Culture, OMFG, Politics/LawMarch 12, 2024

New Research Suggests That Belief in Demons May Help Explain Christian Support of Trump

By Robert Repino

In a strange way, I envy the people who were raised as evangelical Christians in…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Media Analysis, OMFGJanuary 22, 2024

Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?

By Robert Repino

It’s a story that can inspire even the most cynical among us. A person endures…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Media Analysis, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeSeptember 20, 2022

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

In the early ’90s, my Catholic grade school hosted a guest speaker, a member of…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFGNovember 3, 2021

So You Want to Write an Article Deflecting All Blame From Christianity: A Handy Guide

By Robert Repino

For over five years, the brief presidency of Donald J. Trump and its wake have…

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