Conservative Judge Suing ‘Daily Beast’ for ‘QAnon-linked’ Headline Thought QAnon Pod Was ‘Aimed at Christian Audience’ — Spoiler: It Was
Paula Patrick, a conservative judge in Philadelphia perhaps best known for being on the wrong…
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Christian Health Sharing Ministries Aren’t All Corrupt — But Here’s Why They Are a Problem
In my previous column here at RD, I used historical retrospective and my personal memories…
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FX’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Adaptation Rejects Reductive Elements of Krakauer’s Book, But Confirms That ‘Mormonism Breeds Dangerous Men’
I was a twenty-year-old missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in…
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Sanctioning Patriarch Kirill Would Send a Strong Message — Is the Problem That He Doesn’t Wear Mullahs’ Robes?
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sanctions against Russian officials have been…
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Chicago Synagogue Excoriated For Shift From ‘Non’ to ‘Anti’ Zionism — Maybe the Problem isn’t the ‘Anti’ But the ‘Zionism’
Progressive synagogue Tzedek Chicago, founded in 2015 and led by Rabbi Brant Rosen, recently made…
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Evangelical Healthcare Sharing Plan Catastrophically Fails — But Why Did So Many Join in the First Place?
Remember the 1990s? The inexplicable popularity of fluorescent fanny packs? The innocent thrill of getting…
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‘Straight, White, Christian, Married, Suburban Mom’ Calls Out GOP Bully; But are Majority of White Suburban Moms Ready to See Through the ‘Nice’ Charade?
On April 19, Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow publicly called her colleague, Senator Lana Theis,…
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The Right’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Didn’t Begin with QAnon — You Have to Go Back a Bit Further to Get to the Source
It seems that all the Right wants to talk about these days is “grooming.” These…
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‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy
Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK…
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Be Careful What You Wish For: The Downside of Kicking the Russian Orthodox Church Out of the World Council of Churches
Calls have grown for the Russian Orthodox Church to be expelled from the World Council…
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