From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism
Ana Marie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and…
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How Christian Theology Created the Need to Assert that Black Lives Matter
The Republican Party’s primary race is filling up with candidates crusading against “wokeness,” particularly in…
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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about…
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When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner
I have to admit that Michelle Huneven’s new novel was almost too delicious for me,…
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy: How Amazon, Google & Neuroscience Threaten American Buddhism
Contemporary American Buddhism has a problem; thankfully, unlike Christianity, it has little to do with…
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Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’
Sometimes, the scholarly life means taking delight in unexpectedly relevant news items: a new adaptation…
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Christian Nationalist Bestseller Rooted in Volk, Homeland, and Patriarchy is ‘Blood Relation’ of a Certain 20th Century German Manifesto
As a researcher, I’ve tracked the ascendance of White Christian nationalism in the United States…
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La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More
For most of its existence, religious Satanism has been regarded as either unfit for polite…
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George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook
The upcoming 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, better known as Vatican II, will…
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Evangelicalism Thrived Because it Enabled White Christians to Avoid Civil Rights Movements According to New Book
In the course of his remarks to the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand Summit”…
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