A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture
At a small group Bible study in suburban Colorado Springs, circa 2008, a group of…
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Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr
Earlier this month Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke announced to the world that he had contracted…
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The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism
Over the last couple of weeks, America’s conservative, mostly white evangelicals have once again generated…
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Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?
Some ten days after the fall of Kabul it’s still not clear how the Taliban…
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Latest Diatribe on Francis and Latin Mass in the Times Launders the History — and Troubling Elements — of the ‘Tradition’
Church councils are never simple things, neither when they’re happening nor in their aftermath. Although…
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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?
In 2018, I published an article here on Religion Dispatches about how abortion is a…
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Douthat’s Criticism of Pope’s Restriction of Latin Mass Is Fascinating; It’s Also Ahistorical and Has Been Used Before
In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, fellow Catholic Ross Douthat criticized…
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What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?
If you want to know where the Republican Party is headed, you need to set…
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Is Being Trans a Religion? Why the Christian Right Wants You to Think So
Have you noticed how common it is for right-wingers to describe things they oppose in…
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Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? Does it Matter?
For all the ink spilled on Alexander Hamilton by historians, and for all the buzz…
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