A Church (Further) Divided: Putin’s Patriarch Now Faces a Rebellion From Within the Russian Orthodox Church
While the world waits for Russian oligarchs to tire of their yachts being seized and…
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A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right
If someone from 1965 were to arrive in a time machine, there’s likely much about…
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No, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is Not Calling for Peace — In Fact, He’s Putin’s Accomplice
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus is not calling for peace in Ukraine, and…
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Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War
Putin has now ordered Russian troops into Donetsk and Luhansk. The first major conflict between…
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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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Evangelicals Continue To Speak Over, But Not To Ex-vangelicals
Christianity Today magazine just can’t seem to leave exvangelicals alone. On October 19, they published…
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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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Is Being Trans a Religion? Why the Christian Right Wants You to Think So
Have you noticed how common it is for right-wingers to describe things they oppose in…
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Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption
Recently the news dropped that the Michigan-based Bethany Christian Services, a large and influential conservative…
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What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media
Last week a six-week-old baby died in Suceava, Romania during his baptism into the Romanian…
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