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The 1980s Hearings That Explain Why Trump’s Base Still Loves Him

Bombshell revelations won’t hurt the former president with his core supporters. We have only to look at Oliver North to know why.

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez via Made by History on June 29, 2022
No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity

White evangelicals have long been attracted to the conservative media's militant politics and regressive gender roles.

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez via Religion Dispatches on February 22, 2021

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The Evangelical Question in the History of American Religion

The disturbing conclusion might just be that evangelicalism does not exist.

by Kirsten Sanders via The Hedgehog Review on July 23, 2022

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The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community

Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.

by Audrey Clare Farley via The New Republic on March 16, 2021

Why So Many Guns on Christmas Cards? Because Jesus was ‘Manly and Virile.’

Muscular Christianity — with scriptural interpretations that can favor “stand your ground” over “turn the other cheek” — has a long tradition in the U.S.

by Peter Manseau via Washington Post on December 14, 2021

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How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

Are the evangelicals who voted for Trump and stormed the Capitol in his defense part of the fringe of evangelicalism, or the core?

by Christopher D. Cantwell via Religion Dispatches on March 4, 2021

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