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Christian Right

Religion Dispatches
A Texas law requiring public schools “to assert the country’s collective trust in God” by displaying signs that declare “ In God We Trust ” in every public school classroom has come under scrutiny…
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Religion Dispatches
How many local churches are providing direct electoral support to far-right-wing Christian candidates for political office? How many of these churches have members who participated in the January 6…
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Religion Dispatches
We’re not used to thinking of Ron DeSantis , Florida’s rabidly culture-warring governor and a possible 2024 frontrunner for the Republican presidential candidate, as a Catholic politician. He clearly…
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Religion Dispatches
A Roman, a Confederate, and a Nazi walk into a political discourse… Sorry, there’s no punchline. This is just how the online conservative pundit machine is dealing with the FBI raid on Trump’s Florida…
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Religion Dispatches
On Monday, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Florida, during which, according to the former president, federal officials even “broke into my safe.” While there are reports that the…
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Religion Dispatches
Updated 8/16/22: The authors’ response to a correction request follows the article. - eds Four weeks after the January 6th insurrection , two leaders of the revivalist New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)…
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Political Research Associates
Exclusive: Pa. GOP candidate closely linked to Christian extremists who want "spiritual warfare" against America
Pennsylvania’s Republican candidate, Doug Mastriano, is deeply embedded in the Christian Right, and it shows.
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Political Research Associates
Anti-abortion Politics in the Americas
The Christian Right is using a new tactic to deny the international right to abortion: sovereignty.
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Religion Dispatches
Breaking up is hard to do, and I am not at all prepared to discard my deep love and admiration for novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson . Among her novels, I treasure Lila in particular for its…
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Religion Dispatches
While his name may not be familiar to most Americans, for 40 years, between 1873 and 1915, the mutton chopped and cherubic faced Anthony Comstock was one of the more powerful and feared people in…
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