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Pro-lifers Gone Wild: A Brief History of Bad Behavior

Pro-lifers must reckon with this history, this legacy of bad behavior and at times outright violence that have all too often been a defining feature of pro-life activism.

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Aborted Dialogue: How the Hardliners Co-opted and Corrupted the Right-to-Life Movement

In light of recent events, outcry, and misinformation surrounding New York’s Reproductive Health Act over the last month, I’ve been reflecting on an incident I came across while doing research for my dissertation. The story goes like this: President Carter,…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Reading for the Civic Mind

One of my favorite things about the last two years has been a new tradition started with my best friend from back home in Iowa--our weekly long-distance book club. I don’t even remember whose idea it was but at some…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Out of the Bubble

It’s not an infrequent occurrence that my friends will reference a song from the 1990s or early 2000s and I have no idea what they’re talking about. My response is usually along the lines of “No, I’ve never heard that…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Evangelicalism, Purity Culture, and Patriarchy

A few weeks ago my sister texted me and told me to turn on NPR immediately. Terry Gross was interviewing Linda Kay Klein about her new book, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Religious Categories Reimagined

As a scholar of American religion, one of my favorite things to do is to think about the ways we sort Americans based on religion. Is it by self-identified religious affiliation? The church or synagogue or mosque one attends? A…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Faith’s Shifting Landscape: The Conversation Continues

Faith’s Shifting Landscape: The Conversation Continues by Allison Vander Broek I wrote a post two weeks ago on millenials, religion, and the shifting faith landscape in America. In that post, I discussed the difficulties of transitioning to a different sort…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

Faith’s Shifting Landscape

Conversations on Spiritual Deconstruction and the Shifting Landscape of Faith by Allison Vander Broek I’ve been doing a lot of listening this last year, spending a significant portion of my time listening to other people talk about their changing views…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

On Crafting Coalitions: Lessons from the Right-to-Life Movement of the 1970s

By Allison Vander Broek I know half of you just saw that title and are ready to take me to task. Learning a lesson on building political coalitions from the right-to-life movement? Baloney. From one of the most stalwart conservative…

Allison Vander Broek

Essay

God, our Mother

by Allison Vander Broek A few weeks ago I attended The Liturgists Gathering here in Boston with a good friend of mine. I have a minor obsession with the Liturgists and their accompanying podcast—as in all my friends (and even…

Allison Vander Broek

Allison Vander Broek

Pro-lifers Gone Wild: A Brief History of Bad Behavior

Aborted Dialogue: How the Hardliners Co-opted and Corrupted the Right-to-Life Movement

Reading for the Civic Mind

Out of the Bubble

Evangelicalism, Purity Culture, and Patriarchy

Religious Categories Reimagined

Faith’s Shifting Landscape: The Conversation Continues

Faith’s Shifting Landscape

On Crafting Coalitions: Lessons from the Right-to-Life Movement of the 1970s

God, our Mother

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