What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about…
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70th National Prayer Breakfast Made ‘Cosmetic’ Changes, But Biden Delivered the Same Old Tone-Deaf ‘Unity’ Message
Last week, Americans were forced to endure this year’s National Prayer Breakfast—the 70th since the…
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2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism
The 2021 National Prayer Breakfast (NPB), held annually the first Thursday in February and attended…
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Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power
Homophobia, misogyny, and contempt for the poor are so very much taken for granted and accepted as “Christian” within The Family that its principals are able to say, with a perfectly straight face, that they have no political agenda when they support and subsidize authoritarian leaders around the world who exemplify and implement these hatreds.
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Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?
Is the faith-talking, centrist, “new breed” of Democrat like Heath Shuler on its way out?
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The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide
When evangelical activist Brad Phillips told senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa about what he had seen and heard during a recent trip to South Kordofan, Sudan, they called an emergency hearing.
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Jesus Hates Taxes: Biblical Capitalism Created Fertile Anti-Union Soil
While the current assault on unions seems driven mostly by the billionaire Koch brothers and corporate-funded groups, religious right leaders and activists have spent decades creating fertile soil for anti-union campaigns through the promotion of biblical capitalism.
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Will the Religious Side with Workers?
At this moment the embattled US labor movement urgently needs strong community-based allies and much greater moral legitimation, yet broad-based strategic and moral support from the religious side has been slow to materialize.
Read MoreEnsign’s Sin, Power, and No Consequences
Disgraced C-Street-er announces he won’t seek reelection.
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In Wake of Murder in Uganda, LGBT Group Protests Prayer Breakfast
Yesterday morning President Barack Obama gave the keynote address at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, a longstanding tradition among presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower. The breakfast also drew Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace and husband of recent Arizona shooting victim… This isn’t anti-religion; this is anti-hatred.
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