At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric
Donald Trump’s Waco rally this past weekend was, in the end, filled with echoes of…
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Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
This coming Saturday, March 25th—one week after a hysterical all-caps social media post in which…
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What Most Critics Missed About Dustin Lance Black’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’
At the Salt Lake City premiere of Under the Banner of Heaven, writer, director, and…
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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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GOP Candidate for PA Governor Affiliated with Far-Right Gun Church, ‘Rod of Iron Ministries’ — Here’s an Annotated Sermon by Leader Sean Moon
Pennsylvania State Senator and retired colonel Doug Mastriano has announced his candidacy for governor. And,…
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QAnon isn’t a Cult — a Problematic Term — But Michael Protzman’s Q-Adjacent ‘Negative48’ Certainly Is
QAnon isn’t a cult. I know we want it to be, as numerous pundits have…
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‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6
In the twentieth century the word “cult” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that…
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Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’
Brother Laeo Mystwood looks at the camera, his body obscured by a 3D avatar. He…
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Though conflicts between religious groups and the civil authorities often result in a violent outcome, activists and scientists in Hawaii have thus far managed to avoid the violence with some surprisingly simple techniques.
Read MoreDoes Religious Freedom Extend to Child Endangerment? It’s Not as Simple as It Seems
There must be some middle ground—not between right and wrong, but between different understandings of what constitutes abuse.
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