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Feature

The Rise of the Catholic Priest-Influencer

March 4, 2026Emma Cieslik

How Catholic social media figures are enabling a far-right shift

Perspective

Why Guns and God Don’t Mix

February 4, 2026William J. Kole

White evangelicals’ embrace of gun culture, and their outsized influence in the firearms industry, makes them complicit in the...

Column

Skeptic's Corner: “Un-Christian” Trump and the Ethics of Combating Christian Nationalism

February 4, 2026Noah Berlatsky

If calling the president “un-Christian” is a slight, how do we resist centering Christianity in American public life?

Perspective

The Solution is Jesus: Christian Nationalism from Brazil to the United States

December 11, 2025Liam Greenwell

Democracy’s undoing and global Christian nationalisms in “Apocalypse in the Tropics”

Perspective

What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy”

December 11, 2025Noah Berlatsky

Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?

Feature

How Church Leaders are Contributing to the Demise of Democracy in Zimbabwe

November 6, 2025Andrew Mambondiyani

Pastors are encouraging their congregants to vote exclusively for the ruling political party

Feature

The Evangelicals Trying to Distance Themselves from MAGA

November 6, 2025Jamie Valentino

Evangelical communities fighting to take back their faith

Feature

Spreading the Gospel During School Hours

November 6, 2025Orit Avishai

The battle over secular public education in the U.S. today

Feature

The Spiritual Is Political: Georgia’s Peace Cathedral as a Hub for Pro-Democracy Religious Resistance

October 7, 2025Ken Chitwood

A multireligious coalition united to fight autocracy and promote the benefits of religious and ethnic diversity

Feature

TikTok Masculinity

September 4, 2025Miguel Petrosky

Gen Z men, their rising conservatism, and interest in religion

Excerpt

American Border Religion

June 10, 2025Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

An excerpt from "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States"

Feature

Authoritarian Christianity Targets Christians

June 10, 2025Noah Berlatsky

Trump’s Christian nationalism is about policing identity, and many Christians will suffer

Review

Spiritual Oligarchy

April 3, 2025Miguel Petrosky

A Review of “The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy”

Podcast

The Revealer Podcast Episode 56: The People Destroying Democracy

March 6, 2025Editorial Staff

The organizations, religious communities, and people pushing America to authoritarianism

Perspective

Are MAGA Christians More or Less Christian than Progressives?

March 6, 2025Noah Berlatsky

Turning to James Hogg to reflect on the liberal Christian response to Christian nationalism

Feature

To Evangelical Christians, What Does it Mean to "Welcome the Stranger"?

December 12, 2024Emily Frazier

A surge in White evangelicals working to help immigrants and refugees—and if that influences their politics

Podcast

The Revealer Podcast Episode 51: Christian Nationalism, Charismatic Christians, and Political Violence

October 1, 2024Editorial Staff

The prominent role Charismatic Christians play in today’s Christian nationalism

Feature

From the Gay Agenda to Childless Cat Ladies

October 1, 2024Sophie Bjork-James

How ideas about the family animate Christian nationalism, and how they are changing to create a broader conservative coalition

Feature

Make America Mate Again

October 1, 2024Samuel L. Perry

Christian nationalism and group-based pronatalism on the American Right

Feature

From Missionaries to Settler-Colonialists for Christian Supremacy

October 1, 2024Bradley Onishi

Homeland, “our people,” and the call for a new Caesar in Evangelical discourse

Feature

Christian Nationalism Gone Global

October 1, 2024Matthew D. Taylor

Paula White-Cain, international networks of Independent Charismatic Christians, and political violence

Feature

Christian Nationalism and Authoritarianism

October 1, 2024Andrew Whitehead

Comfort with violence and weakening democracy in the name of taking America back for God

Excerpt

Mainline Protestants and Christian Nationalism

September 5, 2024Brian Kaylor, Beau Underwood

An excerpt from “Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism”

Review

Winning the Religious Marketplace

September 5, 2024Miguel Petrosky

A Review of "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People"

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The Rise of the Catholic Priest-Influencer

Why Guns and God Don’t Mix

Skeptic's Corner: “Un-Christian” Trump and the Ethics of Combating Christian Nationalism

The Solution is Jesus: Christian Nationalism from Brazil to the United States

What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy”

How Church Leaders are Contributing to the Demise of Democracy in Zimbabwe

The Evangelicals Trying to Distance Themselves from MAGA

Spreading the Gospel During School Hours

The Spiritual Is Political: Georgia’s Peace Cathedral as a Hub for Pro-Democracy Religious Resistance

TikTok Masculinity

American Border Religion

Authoritarian Christianity Targets Christians

Spiritual Oligarchy

The Revealer Podcast Episode 56: The People Destroying Democracy

Are MAGA Christians More or Less Christian than Progressives?

To Evangelical Christians, What Does it Mean to "Welcome the Stranger"?

The Revealer Podcast Episode 51: Christian Nationalism, Charismatic Christians, and Political Violence

From the Gay Agenda to Childless Cat Ladies

Make America Mate Again

From Missionaries to Settler-Colonialists for Christian Supremacy

Christian Nationalism Gone Global

Christian Nationalism and Authoritarianism

Mainline Protestants and Christian Nationalism

Winning the Religious Marketplace

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