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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

OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 19, 2015

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

Some of the Republican presidential candidates are fond of Holocaust analogies. Mike Huckabee, for example,…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 17, 2015

As New Poll Finds “Increased Xenophobic Streak,” Republicans Heighten Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

By Sarah Posner

As Republican presidential candidates and governors pronounce Muslims and Syrian refugees personae non grata after…

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How Ben Carson Uses “Secular Progressives” as a Shield
OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 7, 2015

How Ben Carson Uses “Secular Progressives” as a Shield

By Sarah Posner

Scrutiny of the veracity of Ben Carson’s account of various events in his youth continues,…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerNovember 6, 2015

The End of Carson?

By Sarah Posner

Ben Carson made his mark with white evangelicals with his 1990 memoir, Gifted Hands, and…

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Archive, RD Blog, Remapping American Christianities, Sarah PosnerOctober 28, 2015

New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns

By Sarah Posner

In the new documentary film The Armor of Light, gun control activist Lucia McBath goes…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 27, 2015

Podcast: Trump, Carson, and Evangelicals in the Presidential Campaign

By Sarah Posner

This week I was a guest on the Center for Inquiry podcast “Point of Inquiry”…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedOctober 26, 2015

Religious Leaders Pledge to Protect Religious Freedom—For Everyone

By Sarah Posner

Twenty-one religious leaders of various faiths gathered on the steps of the National Cathedral on Friday…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 26, 2015

Trump Pulls a Huckabee on Religion

By Sarah Posner

Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerOctober 23, 2015

Carson’s Lead Shows Evangelicals Care More About Politics Than Religion

By Sarah Posner

Two polls out this week show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedOctober 13, 2015

What Really Was Wrong With the Ben Carson Interview on the End-Times

By Sarah Posner

When it comes to the end-times, Ben Carson may just be confounding the typical narratives…

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