What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis
Fundamentalist Christian support for President Trump is a commonly known, if poorly understood, political dynamic…
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Taxpayers Cannot Be Forced to Fund Churches—Even in a Pandemic
Religious liberty is threatened in America, but not in the way you’ve been told. The…
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New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country
“Our [Founding] Fathers intended that this nation should be a Christian nation, not because all…
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Trump’s Potentially Deadly Easter Celebration Has His Daddy’s Pastor’s Magical Thinking Written All Over It
While most pandemic-aware Christian leaders have already canceled any public gathering for the Feast of…
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Americans Who Rage against Political Correctness Are Also the Most Xenophobic—And Most Likely to Vote Trump in 2020
Admittedly, Trump’s initial references to “the Chinese Virus” earlier in March seemed rather ad-hoc. Though…
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Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It
I suppose we owe Jerry Falwell Jr. a debt of gratitude. I’m serious. Falwell is…
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Does ‘Criss-Cross Apple Sauce’ Make Yoga Secular? Opponents of Yoga in Public Schools Have a Point
Alabama is the latest state to reconsider its stance on yoga, as reported by The…
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Watching the Trump Admin’s Coronavirus Response is Like Watching a Bumbling Cult
I want to say that reading this Politico piece on the Trump administration’s predictably botched…
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Are the Southern Baptists, America’s Largest Evangelical Denomination, About to Get Even More Conservative?
There is perhaps no easier way to illustrate the history and present realities of white…
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What’s So Scary About the Inclusion of ‘God’ in the Russian Constitution?
Last Friday, the House’s Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights heard testimony that Russia’s human…
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