Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right — The Origin Story Beneath the Myth
How can a movement sincerely embrace a moral cause while misremembering the conflict that originally brought its institutions into politics?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right by Randall Balmer as our lens, this episode investigates the historical origins of the Religious Right and the political construction of its public identity.
Balmer challenges the familiar claim that Roe v. Wade awakened evangelical political activism. Drawing on archival research and the testimony of conservative…
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