When White Terrorism Goes Unpunished: Trump’s Acquittal and the Persistence of Anti-Blackness
In the end Donald Trump didn’t have to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. He went…
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For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different
“This is not my first plague.” In 1982, Rev. Steve Pieters was the first minister…
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Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community
Baby Shaayiq Faz was just 20 days old when he died. He was the youngest…
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A Hidden Amy Coney Barrett Answer on COVID That Should Scare Every American
Amy Coney Barrett submitted written answers to the Senate last night and they make it…
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The Religious Reason Many Americans Refuse to Wear Masks
Even in the most evangelical phase of my life, when I was a college student…
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Attraction to Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Can Be Traced to the Christian Apocalyptic Imagination
Among the troubling buzzwords forced into our pop culture vocabulary by the Covid-19 pandemic, one…
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The Absence of Public, Visible Mourning Has Weakened Our Ability to Fight COVID
In May, when the US hit 90,000 Covid-19 related deaths, the Washington Post, published a…
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Christian Schools Invoke Religious Liberty to Reopen Despite Warnings of Health Experts
Here on RD, I took a look at the legal case against exempting churches from…
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COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem
It’s a weird story, even in 2020—and that’s saying something. Father Sergey, a COVID-denying conspiracy-spewing…
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The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement
Dr. Stella Immanuel received considerable attention after President Donald Trump retweeted a video where she…
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