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The outlines of QAnon conspiracy theories are by now familiar to many. The battle of good-versus-evil personified by Donald Trump and the Deep State, which somehow also embroils bizarre and gruesome…

Almost as soon as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, attacks focused on his association with the Evangelical Lutheran…

Here at Religion Dispatches, we have an informal policy that ” religion is as religion does .” Which is to say, we don’t try to adjudicate who is, for example, a ” real Christian ” and who’s not. If…

Hey, do you all remember jamming to the song “Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight”? No? Well, sorry if you…

Whether or not anyone recognizes it by name, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is hitting its stride. After his June declaration that “every teacher, every classroom… will be teaching from the…

I had some finessing to do on Sunday. I filled in for a colleague the morning after the attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life, you see. Just about everyone in the congregation had heard…

Eight years ago here at RD I noted that women were fleeing organized religion —as measured by attendance at religious services—faster than men, a trend that showed no sign of letting up. Historically…

The closing day of NatCon 2024 (day 3) opened with a benediction by Reverend Uriesou Brito: a Christian nationalist, staunch defender of Doug Wilson, and Senior Pastor of Providence Church in…

No friends on the “other side of the aisle”—only enemies In a morning panel of the second day of NatCon 2024, a group of Republican senators hammered home a confrontational message. Sen. Jim DeMint :…

The opening day of 2024’s National Conservatism conference was shot through with familiar themes of far-right triumphalism, civilizational war, xenophobia and existential threat. The majority of…