With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization
During our season of political madness, it took a lot to trigger a double-take, and…
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Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism
In my younger, snottier days, I would have made short work of this piece by…
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Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer
The Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic has become a perfectly likely hero in the international…
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‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance
When I signed up to attend a 3-day conference at the flagship young-Earth creationist organization…
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Vaccine Mandates are Constitutional; Religious Exemptions are Unnecessary and Harmful
The Spirit of 1776 was as much about science as it was about freedom. George…
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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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Setting a Low Bar: Religious Entities Praised for Treating Covid Religious Exemptions Responsibly
Last week, AP published a small, albeit important article, “Many faith leaders say no to…
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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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Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You
It was the best of the end times. It was the worst of the end…
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With the End of ‘Roe’ the Verdict is in: The Supreme Court Majority is Christian Nationalist
The Supreme Court ended Roe v. Wade. When the court finally got around to issuing…
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