How the Anti-Abortion Movement Gave us Donald Trump — and Why It Could Bring Worse
I grew up in the white evangelical community, surrounded by individuals who became Donald Trump’s…
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Christian Nationalists Didn’t Seek to Desecrate the Capitol But to Purify It
In her new book, Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s Capital and Redeem…
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We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
This Religious Freedom Day, January 16th, we want to highlight the idea that religious freedom…
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Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
A month ago, I argued here on RD that America’s national conversation about Christianity is…
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White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the Republican House Rep…
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Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020
Especially for people deemed “too political” (a label I’ve worn proudly for decades), this has…
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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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Why Does Trump’s Authoritarian Christian Base Ignore Never-Trump Evangelical Leaders?
Here we are, a week and a half after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden became…
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Beneath the ‘Wacky’ Paula White Video is a Dark and Deeply Undemocratic World Propping Up the President
These are the end times for the presidency of Donald Trump and the White House…
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Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it
Exit polls are even more suspect this year than they usually are, but few pundits have been dissuaded…
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