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Religion Dispatches

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

“Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing Against Equality,” edited by Roman Kuhar, associate professor at the University of Ljubljana, and David Paternotte, lecturer at the Université Libre de…
Peter Montgomery
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Religion Dispatches

Oh Say, Can You See?:  9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

As the sixteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, communities from Utica, New York to Sandy, Utah are preparing versions of what has become a new national flag ritual—the commemoration of…
Spencer Dew
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Religion Dispatches

Not So Fast: New Data Does Not Support Conservative Shift for Dems

It’s more or less an article of faith that religious Americans, especially white Americans, have abandoned the Democratic Party. And indeed, a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute…
Patricia Miller
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Religion Dispatches

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

Author Max Perry Mueller answers RD’s 10 Questions
Max Mueller
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Religion Dispatches

Why Natural Disasters Were Perfect Timing for Anti-LGBT Nashville Statement

Amid all the ruminations and critiques of the Nashville Statement, one aspect sticks out to me as particularly curious: the timing. Why did the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood choose this…
Kristel Clayville
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Jae Han

Political Research Associates
Jae Hee Han works at the intersection of late antique Christianity and Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University. His current project examines the discourse of prophethood and…
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Religion Dispatches

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit's Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

Reports from several international LGBT gatherings: The Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA), founded in 2016, reported on its August gathering in Accra, Ghana, which drew more than 30…
Peter Montgomery
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Religion Dispatches

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

The news of Louise Hay’s death took me right back to the mid-1980s and the worst of the AIDS crisis, when her books and tapes were everywhere in the homes and hospital rooms of the sick and dying. Out…
Peter Laarman
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David Zvi Kalman

Political Research Associates
David Zvi Kalman is a Fellow in Residence at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He is the owner of Print-O-Craft Press. His website is www.davidzvi.com.
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Religion Dispatches

Why I Give Zero F*cks What Anti-Gay Christians Think

For years, I cared what anti-gay Christians thought about me. Deeply. I spent countless hours arguing the finer points of scriptural history and interpretation with them – especially the “clobber…
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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