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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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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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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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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Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
Most of us don’t want to grow up to be our parents, especially when we’re…
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The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border
Right-wing media have been relentless in their attacks on trans people. In a single three-week…
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Opposition to Marriage Equality is Not the Only Scriptural Position for Christians
Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article about Joseph Kuilema, a professor at…
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If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
On Saturday, 18-year-old white supremacist P.G. drove to the “Tops” supermarket with the intention to…
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Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
Sculpted, sweating, bare torsos doing push-ups, bulging muscles, two scantily-clad men locked in a fight—they,…
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‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
Over the same period in which advocates of reproductive justice have been fighting a rearguard…
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