Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable
Have you ever noticed that for hardline ideologues, only their opponents are “doing politics,” while…
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Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP
Thirty-five years before Donald Trump descended the escalator of his gaudy Manhattan skyscraper to launch…
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Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties
The 2020 results of Ligonier Ministries’ and Lifeway Research’s State of Theology Survey, a project…
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The Dangerous Fact About QAnon Believers That Reporters Fail to Grasp
Most of us are familiar with the genre of political reporting in which a journalist…
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Reading Racism: In Confronting White Christian Fragility ‘Feeling’ is as Important as Ideas
“How does it feel to be a problem?” – W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls…
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And the Violent Bear It Away? Disciplined Nonviolence and the Coming Election Emergency
A few weeks back I reached out to around 60 friends and colleagues whom I’ve…
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Fundraising for Kyle Rittenhouse Reveals American Christianity’s White Supremacy Problem
Christianity has long had a white supremacy problem. The Kenosha aftermath has just made it…
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Falwell’s Fall Was Unrelated to the Anti-Science, Racism, and Patriarchy Trifecta that Built Liberty
Four years after he played a key role in shifting white evangelical support from Ted…
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Gun-Wielding White Couple Make Perfect Protagonists for Republican Convention’s ‘Great American Story’
Among the more surprising inclusions at the 2020 Republican National Convention was Patricia and Mark…
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The Absence of Public, Visible Mourning Has Weakened Our Ability to Fight COVID
In May, when the US hit 90,000 Covid-19 related deaths, the Washington Post, published a…
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