Honored to talk about Leonard Cohen’s work with philosopher Moshe Halbertal and host Stephan Steiner at the Catholic Academy in Berlin–and with four sensational musicians! Click here
Honored to talk about my book on the Veterans of the Culture Wars podcast with top-notch reporters Zach Malm and David Lester. Click here or here
The White Evangelical Vote: An Irony of American Religio-Political Culture Political Theology Network May 22, 2022 By Marcia Pally Why is populism persuasive and specifically persuasive to these religious Christians? Said another way, what makes right-wing populism seem, to deeply […]
The tragic irony of populism is that once-productive, government wary anti-authoritarianism and community localism can distort into exclusionary, us-them suspicion of the “deep state” and “outsiders,” ending us at racist violence and the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol Building. Read more here
Abortion is not the only issue driving white evangelical politics. (RNS) — With proof leaking out that the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, many are saying white evangelicals have finally gotten what they want. It was the […]
Why do so many of America’s white evangelicals support Putin? Marcia Pally 19 Apr 2022 Those who believe that America’s white evangelicals have embraced Vladimir Putin due to some fundamentalist proclivity for authoritarianism have the story backwards. Even though they […]
Check out this piece in Religion News Service for a big-picture look at white evangelical politics & its impacts.
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Click here: Sam Parry, co-author with Phil Gorski, of The Flag and the Cross, Pastor Dave Davis, and Marcia Pally, author of White Evangelicals and Right Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here? talk about Christianity, the political right, and the future of America; hosted by the Telos Group.
Have a look at Ricardo DaSilva’s beautiful piece on Leonard Cohen and From The Broken Hill I Sing to You. DaSIlva is a great reader of Cohen and a great interviewer.