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Religion Dispatches

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody wants to tell you why evangelicals like Donald Trump. It’s a good try, but it’s not very convincing. Brody has spent many years interviewing…
Sarah Posner
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Immigrant-Bashing, Indifference, and the Evangelical Vote

Two prominent evangelicals penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, asserting that “candidates who actually have a shot at winning the presidency should understand: Immigrant-bashing…
Sarah Posner
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Silence of Latino Religious Leaders Enable GOP Tolerance of Trump Spectacle

“ virtue of spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks, but what it sees.” Roland Barthes, Mythologies Part of what spectacle is good for is…
Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh
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Religion Dispatches

Liberty Loves Trump and the Feeling is Mutual

Jerry Falwell Jr. gushes over “visionary” Trump.
Peter Montgomery
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Romney Banking on Trump’s Birthers Pulling Him Over Finish Line

“I have to have the help of a lot of good people.”
Sarah Posner
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Religion Dispatches

Trump as GOP’s New Televangelist

Prosperity gospel dumps God for The Donald.
Sarah Posner
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Religion Dispatches

The GOP Primary Capsule, Countown Four Days to the Rapture

With Huckabee and Trump out, there’s a void for the evangelical and conspiracy vote.
Sarah Posner
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Trump to Meet with Controversial Televangelist Today

Paula White arranges meeting in New York.
Anthea Butler
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Religion Dispatches

Will Mormon-on-Mormon, Hunstman v. Romney Primary Save the GOP from the Religious Right?

A 2012 Update.
Joanna Brooks
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Bin Laden’s Death: Redress of a Wrong Suffered

Or is it just war as usual…?
Pamela R. Lightsey
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