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What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

Rev. Wright has been likened to his biblical namesake, but there’s a crucial difference between Wright’s rhetoric and that of the prophet Jeremiah…
Andrew Murphy
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Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

A crop of new books on the waning influence of conservative Christianity in American politics.
Laura R. Olson
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By the Way: Naming The Religious Right

Leaders of the religious right have recently begun to complain about the various names by which their movement is known. But if the shoe fits…
Randall Balmer
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A Post-Christian America? Not Quite—Though Devoutly to be Wished

Is there a connection between fewer identifying as “Christian” and “junk religion”? If the religious right is losing power why are Democrats so intent on “reaching out” to them?
Peter Laarman
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