Special Coverage: Dispatches From Pray Vote Stand 2022
Several PRA staff attended this year’s Pray Vote Stand Summit, sending twice-daily (anonymous) dispatches from…
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In Sermon on Birth of the ‘Fatherland,’ Putin’s Patriarch Kirill Equates Invasion of Ukraine with Defense of Orthodox Faith
If you’ve been educated in North America or Western Europe, you might be forgiven for…
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After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd
In the early ’90s, my Catholic grade school hosted a guest speaker, a member of…
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Critics of Hasidic Schools Exposé Missed the Point: It Wasn’t Antisemitic or the Product of Secular Bias — It’s a Story of Corruption
When I was in yeshiva in Boro Park in the early 80s, I was asked…
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Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?
Dear Amazon Prime,* As a loyal customer I’m appalled at your latest WOKE stunt and…
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Knighting Viktor Orbán for ‘Defending Christianity,’ Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Demonstrates That ‘Culture War’ is the Only Theology That Matters to the Global Right
On September 5, Patriarch Porfiry of Belgrade, the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church, awarded…
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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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The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem
Earlier this month, amid increasing death threats, the synagogue of the judge who signed the…
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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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Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher
Calls for, or at least predictions of, revolution or civil war have been common on…
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