As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem
This week, you’re likely to encounter a lot of commentary on PRRI and Interfaith Youth…
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The January 6 Select Committee Cannot Ignore This Christian Movement
Yesterday, for the first time, we heard about Christian Nationalism in a government conversation about…
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UPDATED: Turning Catholic School’s Anti-Mask Theology Into a Faith Argument is Just Fine With Religious Right (Even if it is Based on Garbage Theology)
UPDATE, July 27: The Catholic journalist Tony Spence points out that the Diocese of Lansing…
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Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’
A new lawsuit filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science, anti-vaxxing organization seeks to drag…
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Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism
After the Trump years and the January 6 insurrection, in which recognizably evangelical prayers and…
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How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones
Robert P. Jones is CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and…
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‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6
In the twentieth century the word “cult” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that…
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Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive
In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became…
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Armed with New 2020 Election Data, What Should Democrats’ (Non-)Faith Outreach Look Like?
After delays in tabulation that resulted from holding an election under pandemic conditions, late last…
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Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics
In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote,…
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