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Christian Right

Political Research Associates
The DeVoses exert influence over state and national policy making.
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Religion Dispatches
Another Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there was the social media furor about Starbucks’ red cups, as Ed Simon relates here in RD. Then this…
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Religion Dispatches
In the 1640s, during the years of the English civil wars, a popular broadsheet with the title The World Turned Upside Down became the equivalent of a blockbuster. In the chaos of the era print was…
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Religion Dispatches
When Dr. Larycia Hawkins, a professor of political science at Wheaton College, donned a hijab for Advent in solidarity with Muslims facing hostility and persecution, she explained her gesture in…
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Religion Dispatches
As an Asian Christian who teaches at a Christian college in Massachusetts and has worn the shalwar kameez as my “duty uniform,” for more than twenty-five years I took bemused note of recent headlines…
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Religion Dispatches
Miroslav Volf’s recent WaPo op-ed is an example of the kind of interfaith intervention we’d be better off without.
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Political Research Associates
Mixed with the systemic ingredients of anti-trans violence is a cadre of Christian Right actors who are effectively fueling the fire through policies and legal campaigns.
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Religion Dispatches
Larycia Hawkins, a tenured political science professor at the evangelical stalwart Wheaton College, was placed on administrative leave this past week after donning a hijab to express solidarity with…
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Religion Dispatches
The news that more than two dozen religiously affiliated colleges and universities had received exemptions from the anti-discrimination provisions of Title IX demonstrates how the “religious liberty”…
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Religion Dispatches
Remember when the presidential election, or the Republican primary, at least, was going to be about religious liberty? About how Obergefell v. Hodges eviscerated the religious freedom of “Bible…
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