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Sarah Posner

Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, covers politics and religion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon, and other publications. Follow her on Twitter. RSS feed Email

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Why Conservatives are Turning on Beck

A matter of form, not substance.
Sarah Posner
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Bachmann Tries to Smooth CPAC Rifts

Says a carpenter knows a three-legged stool needs to be strong.
Sarah Posner
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“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

76-year-old never-married evangelist Bill Gothard teaches a form of wifely submission that another evangelical theologian has referred to as “the basest form of male chauvinism I have ever heard in a Christian context.” Sarah Posner had the chance to speak at length with the controversial religious leader, as well as with critics and former adherents. The picture that emerges shows the risk, and the devastation, of the abuse of spiritual authority.
Sarah Posner
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