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Right-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Thousands gather on National Mall for daylong prayer rally

A White House-backed prayer rally on the National Mall rededicated the nation under God, drawing criticism for mixing Christian worship with government and religious freedom concerns.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

The evangelical boom in Madrid: Packed stadiums, public transit advertising, and political connections

For days now, advertisements for the Festival of Hope featuring American preacher Franklin Graham have been appearing on Madrid's Municipal Transportation Company (EMT) buses. The posters, which cover the sides of the vehicles, include a direct invitation: Share the love of Jesus Christ with people from all over Madrid.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

What John Wilson's Critique of My Faculty Survey Gets Wrong

Wilson theorizes that aggrieved far-right faculty were overrepresented while far-left faculty boycotted the survey. He provides no evidence for either claim and ignores evidence against—such as that only one of 633 respondents identified as 'extremely conservative.'
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1 month ago
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I Wrote Over 100 Letters To My Future Husband. Reading Them Now Has Been Excruciating.

Purity culture influenced many young women to prioritize marriage and traditional gender roles from a young age.
fromPsychology Today
9 months ago
Relationships

Rejecting Sexual Shame from Purity Culture

Leaving purity culture allows for expanded sexualities and self-expression.
Writing
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

I Wrote Over 100 Letters To My Future Husband. Reading Them Now Has Been Excruciating.

Purity culture influenced many young women to prioritize marriage and traditional gender roles from a young age.
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UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Faith and Reform: is the religious right on the rise in UK politics?

A small circle of devout evangelical advisers influences Reform UK's policy, but UK evangelicals are far fewer and less uniformly aligned with US-style religious right.
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fromwww.npr.org
7 months ago

The evangelical Christian faith on display at Kirk's memorial shaped his politics

Charlie Kirk's evangelical faith was on display at his memorial service this weekend in Arizona. The service, held on a Sunday morning, felt much like a worship service, complete with prayers, songs and a call from Kirk's widow to "forgive" Kirk's alleged killer "because it was what Christ did." The event opened with performances of contemporary Christian worship music and Kirk's colleagues and friends referred to him as both a prophet and a martyr.
Right-wing politics
fromsfist.com
8 months ago

Peter Thiel Speaking In SF Tonight, Thinks He Knows Who the Antichrist Is

Several wealthy lucky right-wing tech bros will get to hear Peter Thiel speak tonight at SF's Commonwealth Club on the topic of the Antichrist, which is a funny thing to claim to know about when you've got all manner of Jeff Epstein connections. There is apparently an emerging evangelical Christian movement going on in wealthiest pockets of the tech industry. This stands to reason I guess, because tech wants to control the masses, and religion has always proven an excellent way to control the masses.
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Relationships
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 year ago

This is how we do it: I'm from an evangelical Christian family and didn't know what an orgasm was till I was 24''

The pressure to remain pure and the fear around sexuality profoundly impacted the author's relationship with sex and femininity.
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