HBO’s Game Change Hits, But Sarah Palin Pic Misses Religion
Game Change reveals what no one else apparently has the chutzpah to say: that Sarah Palin was the opening salvo in the the dissolution and destruction of the Republican Party.
Read MoreGame Change reveals what no one else apparently has the chutzpah to say: that Sarah Palin was the opening salvo in the the dissolution and destruction of the Republican Party.
Read MoreNeo-con, pragmatist, exceptionalist… but not a visionary.
Read MoreThe New Apostolic Reformation has been in the news a great deal since Rick Perry first announced his prayer rally, The Response. Sarah Posner has an investigative journalist’s view of this movement, its place in religious movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in politics. Here she is in conversation with Anthea Butler, a scholar of American religious history.
What happens when evangelicals bring theological debates into presidential politics.
Read MoreAn epic First Amendment fail.
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Read MoreHow cross-pollination helped build the religious right.
Read MoreIn asking “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” Politico notes he’s reading a book by a Southern Baptist minister.
Read MoreWhat is the media getting, and not getting, in its coverage of the religious right in politics?
Read MoreLast week, Lisa Miller, religion writer and editor (Newsweek and the Washington Post) filed an op-ed in which she fulminated against “the left” and journalists who have raised concerns about the influence of dominionist thinkers on Republican presidential candidates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry.
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