When Religious Freedom Means Freedom for Religious Violence
Religious freedom has long been a rallying cry of the religious and political right. In…
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‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy
Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK…
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Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning
“Man, as many people as we have in this school here, we ought to take…
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“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local
One of the features of the rise of the Christian Right has been the development…
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What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?
If you want to know where the Republican Party is headed, you need to set…
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Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation
The city of Spokane, Washington sits at the eastern edge of the state—a mountain range…
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Teflon Antichrist: How Did a President Who Fit the Role So Well Avoid the Label?
One of the more unexpected developments of Donald Trump’s presidency was his metamorphosis into an…
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State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)
UPDATE, July 27, 2020: Rev. Dale Witherington recently returned to the scene of his Facebook…
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New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country
“Our [Founding] Fathers intended that this nation should be a Christian nation, not because all…
Read MoreA Recent Local Controversy Reveals the Theocratic Heart of ‘Project Blitz’
The Christian nationalist intentions of Project Blitz have also received much attention, but a remarkable episode in Minnesota this past state legislative session may be a harbinger of a more profoundly theocratic politics on the horizon.
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