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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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Supreme Court Rules Sectarian Legislative Prayer Constitutional

While conservatives are celebrating today’s Supreme Court decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway as a crucial victory for religious freedom, advocates of church-state separation are warning that the…
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Jewish Leader Blasts Exclusion of J Street from Umbrella Group

(This post has been updated.) Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest Jewish denomination in the United States, has issued a harsh statement following yesterday’s…
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Secular As Kids, Religious As Adults?

At Vox.com, Dylan Matthews argues (with charts) that the retention rate among people raised with no religion is much lower than among people raised with religion — in other words, that people raised…
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