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It's Just Gotten More Secretive
Project Blitz remains an active project on the Christian Right after receding into secrecy in 2019, but this time cloaked in the guise of secular intentions.
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Religion Dispatches
In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became even more of a secret. When RD first reported on Project Blitz in April 2018 the website featured…
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Religion Dispatches
In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote, premised on the “Big Lie” that voter fraud was behind President Joe Biden’s election. The…
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Religion Dispatches
I hate to say “told you so,” but the opportunity comes along so infrequently I feel obliged to take it when I can. The plan among U.S. Catholic bishops to bludgeon Pres. Biden with a statement on the…
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Religion Dispatches
In 2012 James Carville was ecstatic on CNN as incumbent President Barack Obama had just won re-election in convincing fashion over GOP challenger Mitt Romney. Carville who co-authored the 2008 book 40…
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Religion Dispatches
Critical Race Theory (CRT), the academic study in which students and scholars examine how race and racism function, is under attack by conservatives who claim that CRT promotes a distorted view of…
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Religion Dispatches
Last week, the Biden administration published the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism . With an initial summary released in March of 2021, the full report is in response to…
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Religion Dispatches
On June 15 th , the U.S. Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth is the result of emancipation delayed by Confederate control over Galveston, Texas…
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Public Eye
Horror and Hope in QAnon Apocalypticism
Damon Berry explores the apocalypticism of QAnon and how it taps into not only religious feeling but ancient apocalyptic narratives of horror and hope.
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Religion Dispatches
“Whenever the church gets in bed with politics, the church gets pregnant. And our offspring does not look like our Father in Heaven.” - J.D. Greear, Southern Baptist Convention President, June 15…
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