Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation
While the Christian Right has been an increasingly powerful factor in American politics for decades,…
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Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!
What with Ukraine, Mar-a-Lago, Jerome Powell, and what-not, I suppose we can be forgiven (ha!)…
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What Salman Rushdie’s Attacker Shares with Insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt
Several years ago I happened to sit next to Salman Rushdie at dinner when he…
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The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?
When it was published in 1988, The Satanic Verses wasn’t immediately controversial. But the charged…
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Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
Last weekend, the Door Christian Fellowship Ministries in McAllen, Texas, mounted an unauthorized, unlicensed and…
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New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
Updated 8/16/22: The authors’ response to a correction request follows the article. – eds Four…
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Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
As discussed earlier this week on RD, the Orthodox Church in America recently released an…
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Stalked by The Plague, ‘The Maiden of All Our Desires’ Follows a Medieval Abbey at a Time When Monastic Life Was a Refuge for Women
A woman disappears, “taken by wind.” A one-eyed priest frantically carves a feminine-looking crucifix for…
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Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
Late last week, the Orthodox Church in America, the second largest Orthodox church body in…
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Odd Comments by Michigan Football Coach Reveal Who Anti-Abortion Christians Think They’re Defending
This past Sunday, at a “Right to Life dinner and auction” in a Detroit suburb,…
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