The Link Between Texas’ Law Requiring ‘In God We Trust’ Signs in Schools and the January 6 Insurrection
A Texas law requiring public schools “to assert the country’s collective trust in God” by…
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In a Disturbing Trend, Far-Right Candidates are Getting Crucial Support from Militia Groups and Churches
How many local churches are providing direct electoral support to far-right-wing Christian candidates for political…
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However Dull or Ham-Fisted, TV is not Oppressing Mormons — In Fact, We Have a Duty to Scrutinize Religious Institutions That Endanger Vulnerable People
Jana Reiss, a senior columnist for Religion News Service, recently surveyed a number of recent…
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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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If There’s any Retaliation at Next Month’s EuroPride Festival in Serbia it’s Likely to Have Orthodox Clerical Blessing
EuroPride is scheduled to take place in the Serbian capital of Belgrade next month. It’s…
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Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden
We’re not used to thinking of Ron DeSantis, Florida’s rabidly culture-warring governor and a possible…
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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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Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
Regular readers of Religion Dispatches will likely be familiar with my fairly frequent forays into…
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Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
A Roman, a Confederate, and a Nazi walk into a political discourse… Sorry, there’s no…
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The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
On Monday, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Florida, during which, according to…
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