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      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
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      AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
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      Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?
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      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
    • Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors
      Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors
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      AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?
      Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?
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    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
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      Espionage Allegations Against Russian Church Raise Religious Freedom Issue in Ukraine
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      As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon
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Tom Davis

The Rev. Tom Davis, a minister in the United Church of Christ, is the author of Sacred Work; Planned Parenthood and its Clergy Alliances (Rutgers Press, 2005). From 1960-63 he was a chaplain at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 1966 he came to Skidmore College as Associate Professor of Religion and College Chaplain. He served the college 30 years and retired in 1996. From 1992-1998 he was on the national board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America serving as chairperson of PPFA's Clergy Advisory Board on which he continues to serve. He has also served on the national board of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and is currently a member of the state board of the New York State Family Planning Advocates, the New York State Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and the Religion, Culture, and Public Policy Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

(A)theologies, Sexuality/GenderOctober 5, 2012

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

On September 13, when word came that my friend, the Rev. Howard Moody, had died…

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Guest BloggersFebruary 14, 2012

Religious Liberty…For Bishops

By Tom Davis

What of protestants and Jews who believe it’s an obligation of their religion to practice contraception?

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Politics/Law, Science & Technology, Sexuality/GenderJuly 3, 2009

Justice Denied by the “Culture of Life”

By Tom Davis

A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold…

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJuly 3, 2009

Historical “GOTCHA!” and the Planned Parenthood Sting

By Tom Davis

The religious right tries to cut off public funds for Planned Parenthood; a look at the effort to discredit PP with allegations of racism.

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 12, 2009

RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

His “new evangelical” positions on global warming, condoms, et al., separate Warren from the old guard of the religious right—but when it comes to reproductive and gay civil rights, the best-selling reverend assumes the hardest of the hard line.

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderApril 16, 2009

Roe & “Safe States”

By Tom Davis

Could there be a return to racist-era “safe states”?

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderApril 16, 2009

The Omission of the “New” Evangelicals

By Tom Davis

While the political focus of evangelicals shifts, mum is still the word on abortion.

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