The ‘Jezebel Spirit’ Isn’t (Just) Bible-Based Misogyny, it’s a Literal Demon — So What Happens When They ‘Stop Tolerating’ It?
Most people, to the extent that they heard about it at all, probably interpreted the…
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With So Many Christians Again Supporting Trump, Pundits and Fellow Christians Refuse to Entertain the Simplest Explanation
If the polls are right, then the majority of Christian voters will cast their lot with Donald…
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A Match Made in Hell: Demons Have Become a Serious Force in US Politics — But We’ve Seen This Show Before
Since Donald Trump began campaigning, demons have been a small but growing part of political…
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Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews
On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy…
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PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About
Like a comet closing in on Planet Earth, the US presidential election is hurtling toward…
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Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
On October 12th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in…
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A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy
Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has…
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This is No Ordinary Anti-Blackness — The Racist History of the Pet-Eating Conspiracy
By now readers are likely familiar with the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio…
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Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category
As a transgender person who grew up evangelical and is now an atheist, I feel…
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Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It?
Since 2016, I have been arguing here at RD that former president Donald Trump’s politics,…
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