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Frederick Clarkson

Senior Research Analyst

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Frederick Clarkson is a Senior Research Analyst at PRA and has written about politics and religion for more than four decades. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications from Mother Jones, Church & State, and Ms. Magazine to The Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com, and Religion Dispatches. He is the author of Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between In the classical definition, a system in which governmental leaders are clergy. Learn more and Democracy, and editor of Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America. He has worked as an investigative editor at Planned Parenthood Federation of America; as Communications Director at the Institute for Democracy Studies; and co-founded the group blog, Talk to Action. 

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Religion Dispatches
This is the second of a three-part series. Read Part I: Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation & Part III: Call it ‘Christian…
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Political Research Associates
A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation
Popular media has ignored the influence of the New Apostolic Reformation, even denying its existence.
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Religion Dispatches
While the Christian Right has been an increasingly powerful factor in American politics for decades, it has benefited from a strangely persistent culture of denialism. We needn’t review the number of…
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