Bill Berkowitz

Bill Berkowitz is an Oakland-based freelance writer covering the Often used interchangeably with Christian Right, but also can describe broader conservative religious coalitions that are not limited to Christians. Can include right-wing Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, and members of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Learn more and related conservative movements. You can read his column thrice a week at Working Assets’ workingforchange.com.

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Religion Dispatches

Much-Married Newt Gingrich Converts to Catholicism

Newt Gingrich may be a Catholic now, but he’s still going for the jugular.

Bill Berkowitz

March 31, 2009

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Religion Dispatches

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.

Bill Berkowitz

December 30, 2008

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Religion Dispatches

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

You may not know the name, but you know his work.

Bill Berkowitz

December 22, 2008

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