Where’s the 2020 Democratic Faith Outreach Discussion… Or Has the Folly of Courting White Evangelicals Finally Hit Home?
The 2020 election season is ramping up. Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic…
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Did Pence Decline to Wear a Mask Because He’s a ‘Muscular Christian’?
I just checked. Turns out I’ve never focused on Mike Pence. That might be due…
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Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)
UPDATE April 21: On April 20, after this article appeared, the 5th Circuit Court of…
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Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine
One has to imagine that the rabidly anti-LGBTQ Franklin Graham, President and CEO of the…
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Worried About Inequality After the Pandemic? Start By Listening to the Women Ringing the Alarm for Decades
In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began to organize the Poor People’s Campaign, pulling…
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COVID-19 is Concentrating Wealth Even Further; Can we Talk About the Surplus of Powerlessness in the Faith Community?
With the Sanders candidacy now over—and with thanks to the NYT’s Elizabeth Breunig for her…
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How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. President Donald Trump have a lot in common. Neither…
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DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment
If Governor DeSantis doesn’t rescind the worship exemption in his ‘Safer at Home’ order, Floridians will…
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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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