Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling
Almost as soon as the tear gas cleared from the Capitol grounds on Jan 6,…
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As Pat Robertson Retires, Here Are 10 of His Most Cringeworthy Moments
After 60 years at the helm of his Christian Broadcasting Network, and 55 hosting its…
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A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine
Over the last year, I’ve scrolled past social media posts by members of diverse religious…
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As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem
This week, you’re likely to encounter a lot of commentary on PRRI and Interfaith Youth…
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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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Confronting the Rise in Conspiracy Thinking … With Wisdom Literature
Oh, dear. The fringes are coming together. As reported by the Washington Post, a new…
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Why Mike Lindell and the Majority of White Evangelicals Can’t Give Up On ‘The Big Lie’
This Saturday, June 12th, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell will host a rally aimed at supporting…
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Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’
Mat Staver, cofounder of the right-wing legal activist group Liberty Counsel, seems to think that…
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What Connects Racism, Misogyny and Faith? Community. And That’s a Bad Thing
Since the murder of eight people at Atlanta-area spas on March 16, there’s been a…
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How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories
Doing research in a branch of the state library in Berlin a few years ago,…
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