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On Wednesday, January 6, a day now infamous for many Americans, I was pulled from my daily work tasks by a colleague’s text urging me to turn on the television and stop all work. We all know what…
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Religion Dispatches
This Religious Freedom Day, January 16 th, we want to highlight the idea that religious freedom is inescapably linked with reproductive freedom. We cannot fully have one without the other. Religious…
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Religion Dispatches
A month ago, I argued here on RD that America’s national conversation about Christianity is “fundamentally unserious.” Not because, as conservative Christian commentator Bonnie Kristian would have it…
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The Christian Right in the 2020 Election
Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election did not stop or slow the organizing capability and perseverance of the Christian Right.
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Religion Dispatches
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque glee. The becostumed horde, thronging through the windows, up the stairways, politely abiding by the…
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Religion Dispatches
This week, amid Democratic victories in Georgia’s Senate runoffs and a Christian nationalist attempt to overturn former Vice President Joe Biden’s victory in November’s presidential election, the…
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Religion Dispatches
UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached security and entered the Capitol, spurred on by Trump himself. Their goal was to interrupt Congress as…
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Religion Dispatches
LOS ANGELES, CA—To the average passerby, Azusa Street is little more than a brick-lined pedestrian alley in downtown Los Angeles, across the street from a bank and a cell phone store and a block away…
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Religion Dispatches
On December 12, Bishop Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles founder of Word on Fire , a “nonprofit global media conglomerate,” and social media superstar , tweeted a video…
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Religion Dispatches
On Tuesday, December 15, disgraced former Houston Police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was charged with aggravated assault for running an air conditioner repairman off the road and holding him at…
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