
If you know the history, you’ll get the hope & and tragedy. Very honored to have my essay, “The Tragedy of Evangelical Politics,” published in Commonweal Magazine.

If you know the history, you’ll get the hope & and tragedy. Very honored to have my essay, “The Tragedy of Evangelical Politics,” published in Commonweal Magazine.

I am thrilled and honored to announce the launch of the Political Theology Network’s 6-week Symposium based on my book, White Evangelicals and Right-wing Populism: How Did We Get Here? My Introductory blog leads off, and for the next 5 weeks, prominent scholars in the field will offer their perspectives and research. Check it out!

I am thrilled and honored that From The Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen is on the Reading Religion list of the American Academy of Religion.

I’m honored to be on Thom Hartmann’s program to talk about white evangelicals, right-wing populism, and impacts on American society and democracy.
AMERICA MAGAZINE POLITICS & SOCIETYNEWS ANALYSIS The Jan. 6 riot shocked Americans. Maybe it shouldn’t have. https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2022/07/22/jan-6-hearing-trumpism-243402 Marcia Pally July 22, 2022 A video of President Donald Trump recording a statement on Jan. 7, 2021, is played, as the House […]
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BY MARCIA PALLY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR 06/29/22 2:15 PM ET Trump and Jan.6 epitomize America’s history of us vs them In yesterday’s surprise hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Donald Trump’s then Chief of Staff Mark […]

I’m delighted and honored by the publication of my piece on the Jan. 6th riot in The Hill. It looks at the anger and violence as an ironic and tragic outcome of US culture and history–the other side of America’s bright political coin.