This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right
In a bombshell story last month, the New York Times revealed that two years ago…
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Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!
What with Ukraine, Mar-a-Lago, Jerome Powell, and what-not, I suppose we can be forgiven (ha!)…
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Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
Last weekend, the Door Christian Fellowship Ministries in McAllen, Texas, mounted an unauthorized, unlicensed and…
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Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
Late last week, the Orthodox Church in America, the second largest Orthodox church body in…
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Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, many Christians have…
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Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
Overturning Roe v. Wade was inevitable in this last decade. In March 2015, the state…
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Salvation, Purity, and Right Wing Activism: A Sampling of What Taxpayers Will Be Forced to Support as a Result of Carson v. Makin SCOTUS Ruling
The two Christian schools at the center of Carson v. Makin—the case in which the…
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Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian
In the aftermath of the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings—and the 54 mass shootings (and counting)…
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With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
A major shakeup at the highest levels in the Russian Orthodox Church is offering new…
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How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
Saying outrageous, verifiably untrue things has sort of become Patriarch Kirill of Moscow’s brand. The…
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