The problem with the latest predictions for ‘the rise of the religious left’

Curated Religion Dispatches | February 4, 2019

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Not only are claims that the religious left is “on the rise” as old as the contemporary religious right itself, but the framing of the religious left may actually further enable the religious right.

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