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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We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?
As the Select Committee on the January 6th Insurrection is now investigating the terrorist attack…
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Satanic or Systemic? Promise Keepers Are Back and Looking to End Racism Via ‘Trickle-Down Racial Reconciliation’
This past weekend at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, marked the official public return of…
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How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones
Robert P. Jones is CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and…
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‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6
In the twentieth century the word “cult” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that…
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Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive
In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became…
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Armed with New 2020 Election Data, What Should Democrats’ (Non-)Faith Outreach Look Like?
After delays in tabulation that resulted from holding an election under pandemic conditions, late last…
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Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — ‘The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy’
Last month, the internal politics of the Southern Baptist Convention became national news after Ed…
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Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics
In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote,…
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Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?
In 2012 James Carville was ecstatic on CNN as incumbent President Barack Obama had just…
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