The Nones are Alright: An End-of-the-Year Open Letter to Pearl-Clutching Pundits
Are you the kind of person who thinks “more religion” is the answer to all…
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How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?
Over the last few months, South Asia has been caught in yet another cycle of…
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Mormon Group Digging for Scriptural City of Zarahemla in Iowa is a Portrait of Religious Nationalism
News outlets like Iowa Starting Line and The Salt Lake Tribune have recently reported on…
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Unintended Consequences: Overturning Roe v. Wade May Endanger This Cherished Evangelical Practice
“The strongest precedent for a right to teach a child at home is Roe v….
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A ‘Vows’ Piece in ‘The Times’ Shows How Doctrinaire Christian Celibacy Has Become Compared to its Ancient Roots
A recent article in the Style section of the New York Times was a notable…
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Is the Growing Anti-Pope ‘Rad-Trad’ Community Poised to Become ‘Qatholics’? History Isn’t Encouraging
On Halloween, Rhode Island police announced that they had arrested Father James Jackson, the pastor…
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Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning
“Man, as many people as we have in this school here, we ought to take…
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What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities
Along with freedom of religion, freedom of the press stands as one of the five…
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‘We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis’: A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S.
“January 6 helped argue the case for fascist tendencies in Christian Nationalism,” Annika Brockschmidt tells…
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Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End
QAnon won’t last forever. Sooner or later, even if the failure of their prophecies doesn’t…
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