Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations
In January 2018, the 45th president hit a new low in a closed-door meeting: “Why…
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The Missing Element in the Conversation on Christian Nationalism and Freedom: Whiteness
A new report released Wednesday by a trio of groups, both Christian and secular, on…
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Do Make Trouble: The Complex World of Radical Jewish ‘Revenge Theologian,’ Meir Kahane
Montclair High School recently found itself embroiled in a controversy of its own making when…
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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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In a New Manifesto Framing ‘Wokeness’ as Religion John McWhorter Sounds Like Moses Condemning Israel for Worshipping Golden Calf of Black Power
As American society remains embroiled in an endless shouting match over cancel culture and canceling…
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Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’
I am a Jew. And I am alive. As a scholar of Judaism I spend…
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A New Book By Esteemed Sociologist Robert Wuthnow Struggles to Show ‘Why Religion is Good for American Democracy’
At a time when Christian Nationalism is finally being recognized as a threat to democracy,…
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America’s ‘Jesus Problem’ is Making Progressive Christians Complicit in Christian Supremacy
As we reflect on the implications of the Trump years there have been several books…
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Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel
Willa Cather is so associated with the Nebraska prairie’s expanse, depicted in novels like O…
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