Can The Religious Left Be Effective Again? Longer Answer: Quizás
The other day, I suggested that if we want to understand the future of the…
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No, the Democratic Party Is (Still) Not the Party of God
In a recent piece over at Slate, Ruth Graham argues that the current state of the Republican Party…
Read MoreThe Religious Right: Still Not Dead
Super Tuesday and the success of Donald Trump among evangelicals have caused otherwise sensible observers to…
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Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?
It is by now widely accepted that the second half of the 20th century witnessed…
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Why SBC’s Russell Moore Wants Conservative Evangelicals to Be Nicer
In the 1970s, conservative evangelicals declared themselves defenders of the American way and protectors of…
Read MoreTrump and the Bible Dodge
Donald Trump is rejiggering the way the Republican Party does religion. Give Trump credit for…
Read MoreHow Donald Trump Has Exposed Rifts in the Religious Right
I went on vacation for two weeks, during which Donald Trump continued to be Donald…
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How a Fringe Theocratic Movement Helped Shape the Religious Right As We Know It
A Q&A with Julie Ingersoll on the history of Christian Reconstructionism as told in her new book: Building God’s Kingdom.
Read MoreHas Donald Trump Broken the Religious Right?
That’s a question our very own Anthea Butler posed to me in a bloggingheads episode…
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Religion, Lies, and Videotape: Planned Parenthood and the Latest Fake Sting
I got snookered by a fake news story from the Pope. “Vatican says Pope will…
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