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Karen E. Park

Karen E. Park is the co-editor of American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism (Fordham, 2024). She writes the Ex Voto newsletter, which you can subscribe to for free here.

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How a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump's Bizarre Baby Execution Story

When Trump claims that women and their doctors are wrapping, rocking, and then cruelly executing babies, he is engaging in a complex narrative rhetoric designed to both titillate and mobilize those in power against those whom they hate.
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Is #MeToo Misogyny ‘Unbiblical’? Southern Baptist Women Test Limits of Biblical Inerrancy

If conservative Christians want to challenge the misogyny in their institutions, they should be applauded and supported. But their call for change will remain problematic as long as they claim Biblical inerrancy as their reason for this call.
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Trump's Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

On the Monday after Easter, the Trump White House hosted the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn. Described by the White House as a “ timeless tradition dating back to 1878 ” the event has been…
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