As New Poll Finds “Increased Xenophobic Streak,” Republicans Heighten Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
As Republican presidential candidates and governors pronounce Muslims and Syrian refugees personae non grata after…
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Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, covers politics and religion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon, and other publications.
How Ben Carson Uses “Secular Progressives” as a Shield
Scrutiny of the veracity of Ben Carson’s account of various events in his youth continues,…
Read MoreThe End of Carson?
Ben Carson made his mark with white evangelicals with his 1990 memoir, Gifted Hands, and…
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New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns
In the new documentary film The Armor of Light, gun control activist Lucia McBath goes…
Read MorePodcast: Trump, Carson, and Evangelicals in the Presidential Campaign
This week I was a guest on the Center for Inquiry podcast “Point of Inquiry”…
Read MoreReligious Leaders Pledge to Protect Religious Freedom—For Everyone
Twenty-one religious leaders of various faiths gathered on the steps of the National Cathedral on Friday…
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Trump Pulls a Huckabee on Religion
Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the…
Read MoreCarson’s Lead Shows Evangelicals Care More About Politics Than Religion
Two polls out this week show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump…
Read MoreWhat Really Was Wrong With the Ben Carson Interview on the End-Times
When it comes to the end-times, Ben Carson may just be confounding the typical narratives…
Read MoreOn Guns and Religious Liberty, Ben Carson “Not an Authentic Adventist”
You’d never know it from Ben Carson’s exhortations for Americans to arm themselves against perpetrators…
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