The True Meaning of ‘Law and Order’ Became Painfully Clear on January 6
“Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted at his supporters on December 19, thousands of…
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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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How Did Hasidic Jewry Become a Stronghold of Trumpism?
Is American Hasidism in crisis? After successfully rebuilding its institutions after the war, Hasidism in…
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Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP
Thirty-five years before Donald Trump descended the escalator of his gaudy Manhattan skyscraper to launch…
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Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It
I suppose we owe Jerry Falwell Jr. a debt of gratitude. I’m serious. Falwell is…
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Trump White House Cranks Religion to 11 As Impeachment Looms
Nixon asked people to pray for him and ended with “God bless America” to remind the nation that he was religious and therefore moral, and thus either innocent or deserving of forgiveness. Trump is doing the same with his gaggle of evangelical bootlickers.
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After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump
Many have argued that Trump is little more than a “scam artist” who has duped evangelicals into following him. But it’s the other way around: Trump didn’t use the religious right to win the presidency; the religious right used Trump to get what it wanted.
Read MoreAt Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump Support Is Part of a 150-Year Tradition
Before Jeffress was W.A. Criswell, Billy Graham’s segregationist preacher, George Truett, the anti-Catholic namesake of the Chick-fil-A founder, and so on.
Read MoreThe Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address
On Saturday the Liberty University community heard a commencement address from an evangelical Christian who disagrees with Trump and Falwell Jr. on almost every major policy issue of the age.
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The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address
Last year Donald Trump delivered the commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Jerry…
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