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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
Calls for, or at least predictions of, revolution or civil war have been common on the religious and political Right for decades. This has been particularly so among leaders of the Christian…
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Religion Dispatches
Updated 8/16/22: The authors’ response to a correction request follows the article. - eds Four weeks after the January 6th insurrection , two leaders of the revivalist New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)…
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Political Research Associates
Exclusive: Pa. GOP candidate closely linked to Christian extremists who want "spiritual warfare" against America
Pennsylvania’s Republican candidate, Doug Mastriano, is deeply embedded in the Christian Right, and it shows.
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