The Right’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Didn’t Begin with QAnon — You Have to Go Back a Bit Further to Get to the Source
It seems that all the Right wants to talk about these days is “grooming.” These…
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‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work
This Lenten season, when the First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois gathered for Sunday…
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The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP
“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit…
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Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to ‘the Enemies of God’ — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop
If you’ve never heard of Gary North that may be because he wanted it that…
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Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)
By the time you read this, Ketanji Brown Jackson will almost certainly have been confirmed…
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The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope
Christian Right legislation that has often seemed to be aimed at undermining or rolling back…
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Is Putin a ‘Real’ Christian? To Understand This Conflict We Need to Ask Different Questions
Vladimir Putin’s campaign of violence in Ukraine has brought to the fore questions about his…
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GOP Candidate for PA Governor Affiliated with Far-Right Gun Church, ‘Rod of Iron Ministries’ — Here’s an Annotated Sermon by Leader Sean Moon
Pennsylvania State Senator and retired colonel Doug Mastriano has announced his candidacy for governor. And,…
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Kirill’s Sermon May Be Bad Preaching and Even Worse Theology — But it’s a Top-Notch Rejection of Liberal Democracy
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, gave a sermon on forgiveness this…
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One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough
In a famous 1958 address commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s…
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