‘We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis’: A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S.
“January 6 helped argue the case for fascist tendencies in Christian Nationalism,” Annika Brockschmidt tells…
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‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day
On Friday evening at the University of Virginia, Dallin H. Oaks, the head of the…
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What the Latest ‘God’s Not Dead’ Gets Egregiously Wrong — and Right — About Homeschooling
God’s Not Dead: We The People is the fourth installment of Pure Flix’s movie series…
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“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local
One of the features of the rise of the Christian Right has been the development…
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North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks
Though you aren’t likely to read about it on the front page of the New…
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America’s ‘Jesus Problem’ is Making Progressive Christians Complicit in Christian Supremacy
As we reflect on the implications of the Trump years there have been several books…
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Vaccine Mandates are Constitutional; Religious Exemptions are Unnecessary and Harmful
The Spirit of 1776 was as much about science as it was about freedom. George…
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Setting a Low Bar: Religious Entities Praised for Treating Covid Religious Exemptions Responsibly
Last week, AP published a small, albeit important article, “Many faith leaders say no to…
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Could This Supreme Court Undo Marriage Equality?
When I look at this broken, packed, partisan Supreme Court, I don’t see a guardian—I…
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Pew Finds Trump-Era Increase in the ‘Evangelical’ Label — And Yes, They’re ‘Real’ Evangelicals
New data released by the Pew Research Center has pundits once again running with the…
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