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      Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
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      It’s Time to Put an End to Virginia’s Racist Death Penalty
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      We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
    • Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
      Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
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      It’s Time to Put an End to Virginia’s Racist Death Penalty
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      We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
    • As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
      As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
    • Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point
      Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point
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    • It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
      It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
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      We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
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    • Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
      Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
    • ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
      ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Stephanie Russell-Kraft covered securities litigation and regulation, as well as general legal news, for Law360, a daily news wire for attorneys. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Fusion, Jezebel and AlterNet.

Archive, Culture, New BooksMay 30, 2017

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

“I’m unbelievably bored writing about Judaism as a journalist,” author Gordon Haber said during a…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderOctober 12, 2016

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Religious “liberty” is code for something else entirely.

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderAugust 1, 2016

Will SB 1146 End LGBT Discrimination in California’s Religious Schools?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

A new religious freedom battle has been brewing in California, but you probably haven’t heard of…

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Archive, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJuly 12, 2016

Mississippi’s Gov. Bryant Resorts To Far-Fetched Analogy To Defend Anti-LGBT HB 1523

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

According to Bryant, the carve-outs in HB 1523 are no different than federal laws protecting pacifists from military conscription.

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJuly 7, 2016

Religious Freedom Is No Carte Blanche: Highlights from Mississippi HB 1523 Court Ruling

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Mississippi’s House Bill 1523, the law the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Andrew Seidel called “excruciatingly…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyJuly 5, 2016

5 Most Important Quotes from Trump’s Evangelical Summit

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

It seems like not a day goes by when a reporter or political commentator declares…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Religious Liberty, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderJune 28, 2016

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

The massacre of 49 individuals in an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12 has ignited…

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Archive, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJune 23, 2016

Disingenuous Pleas for “Common Ground” on Religious Liberty Aren’t Likely to Find Any

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

If you were to skim John Gehring’s latest piece for Commonweal, you might think he’s…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJune 8, 2016

Mississippi Religious Lib Law Violates First Amendment and Shuts Out Religious Progressives

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

As I predicted after the first two lawsuits were filed against Mississippi’s House Bill 1523,…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJune 1, 2016

Manufacturing Religious Freedom Martyrs

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

On May 12, the conservative advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom introduced the newest Christian martyrs…

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