Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement
Last Tuesday, just days before Idaho became one of a handful states to see a…
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The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment
Please feel free to ignore the economists and pundits who like to say that Wall…
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Space X and the Photo-Op: Trump’s Use of the Bible Was Just the Latest in a Series of Christian Nationalist Messages
Trump’s supporters are busy combing the scriptures for that perfect verse that justifies the president…
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How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative
Thousands are now dying in hospital ICUs around the country without the supportive presence of…
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A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
Since the turn of this century, following the news is like experiencing a daily repudiation…
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Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events
A reluctant Indian militant, a Jew with Christmas envy, and a feminist in search of an alternative Thanksgiving are among the scholars and writers who have weighed in over the years on our secular religious national holiday of Thanksgiving.
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Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President
Barr’s war on secularism and Pompeo’s end-times infused diplomacy are windows into why Trump’s evangelical supporters will not turn on him because of his foreign policy in Turkey, much less his phone call with Ukraine.
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Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow
Evangelical authoritarianism is a problem that the American mainstream as a rule fails to treat with the seriousness it demands, in part because it’s easy to laugh at the antics of a Robert Jeffress while assuming that more respectable conservative evangelicals are more moderate and more numerous.
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When we fail to remember our plural origins in the West, we help white terrorists erase our own history.
Read More‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy
Historian Paul Hanebrink discusses the origin and uses of the Judeo-Bolshevik myth as a grand conspiracy that inspired the Holocaust and how crucial parts of it survived under the umbrella of “Judeo-Christian civilization.”
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