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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 PosnerJuly 14, 2015

Fake Gay Panic News Fools Christians

By Sarah Posner

Christians are just too gullible. That’s the message from Ed Stetzer, writing at Christianity Today,…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJuly 7, 2015

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

Today Americans United for the Separation of Church and State launched a new project, Protect Thy…

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, Sexuality/GenderJuly 1, 2015

The Theology Behind Alabama Official’s Demand to Flout SCOTUS

By Sarah Posner

AL.com reports that Win Johnson, the director of the legal staff of the Administrative Office of…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJune 27, 2015

Bree Newsome and the True Meaning of Civil Disobedience

By Sarah Posner

As she scaled the flagpole on the state capital grounds in Columbia, South Carolina this morning…

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Archive, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJune 26, 2015

In Marriage Decision, An Ode to Love and Four Provocations

By Sarah Posner

Today’s majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, striking down state bans on same-sex marriage, is…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Sarah PosnerJune 24, 2015

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley ordered the removal of four Confederate flags from the state capital grounds…

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Archive, RD Blog, Sarah Posner, UncategorizedJune 18, 2015

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

The Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s eloquence has been tragically silenced.

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Remapping American Christianities, Sarah Posner, Science & TechnologyJune 15, 2015

White and Latino Catholics “Living in Different Worlds” On Climate Change

By Sarah Posner

Ahead of Pope Francis’s highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, due out Thursday, Public Religion…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Remapping American Christianities, Sarah PosnerJune 10, 2015

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

Last week, Christianity Today ran a piece headlined, “Why Christian Education in Israel Could Vanish.” The reason? “Funding…

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OMFG, RD Blog, Remapping American Christianities, Sarah PosnerJune 8, 2015

What Happens When There’s Nothing Left to Say About Marriage

By Sarah Posner

Tony Campolo has an epiphany. Franklin Graham has a meltdown. And Scott Walker decides to…

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