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Sarah Posner

Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, covers politics and religion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon, and other publications. Follow her on Twitter. RSS feed Email

Guest Bloggers, OMFG, RD Blog, RD MediaOctober 31, 2014

The Jerusalem Tinderbox

By Sarah Posner

I recorded this latest bloggingheads episode with Jerusalem lawyer Daniel Seidemann before Temple Mount activist…

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(A)theologies, Archive, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesOctober 30, 2014

Pro-LGBT Evangelical David Gushee: “I’m With You and the Church Needs to Change.”

By Sarah Posner

David Gushee is thinking a lot about history. About social change, about civil rights movements,…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 29, 2014

As Trial Approaches, Accused in IHOP Murder Case Challenges Evidence

By Sarah Posner

Micah Moore is scheduled to stand trial next month on charges he murdered Bethany Deaton two…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 24, 2014

A Libertarian Split Over the Hitching Post Case

By Sarah Posner

A Coeur d’Alene, Idaho couple, Donald and Evelyn Knapp, are the new cause celebre of…

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RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 24, 2014

Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up

By Sarah Posner

Reading the same piece by Robert Jones in the Atlantic that I wrote about in…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 21, 2014

Will Declining Numbers of White Evangelicals Change the Senate?

By Sarah Posner

Try to make sense of this puzzle: white evangelicals, as a percentage of the American…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 20, 2014

The Extraordinary Synod’s “Modest Proposals”

By Sarah Posner

On bloggingheads, I spoke with our own Patti Miller about the recently concluded Extraordinary Synod…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedOctober 15, 2014

Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

The conservative media world is today aflame over subpoenas served on pastors, by the City…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 13, 2014

Why Faithy Rhetoric Won’t Help Democrats

By Sarah Posner

On my bloggingheads show last week, I spoke with Lydia Bean, author of The Politics…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 9, 2014

Rand Paul Rattles the Personhood Crowd

By Sarah Posner

Ryan Lizza describes the recent dust-up over Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) support for emergency contraception,…

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