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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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Religion Dispatches
“The federal government can’t take our money and give it to Joel Osteen or Robert Jeffress or Paula White—even in the wake of a pandemic,” I wrote back in May. But that’s exactly what Trump’s Small…
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Religion Dispatches
The six white men who lead the seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention released a joint statement on November 30 th denouncing Critical Race Theory. Specifically, they “declare that affirmation…
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Religion Dispatches
As I’ve argued before, the United States, an ostensibly secular country, has a de facto Christian public sphere. When conservative, mostly white Christians make headlines for doing something illiberal…
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