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.
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
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
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.
David P. Gushee, Past President, American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics, wrote this about From This Broken Hill: “Marcia Pally offers here an immensely rich theological interpretation of the work of legendary Canadian poet-musician Leonard Cohen… It deepens my immense appreciation for the impressive intellectual range of Marcia Pally. This is a tour de force.”
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