Ruth Braunstein

Ruth Braunstein is an author at Religion News Service.

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How a movement to resist Christian nationalism took on Project 2025

By Ruth Braunstein — August 16, 2024
(RNS) — Project 2025 was the perfect test of this emerging movement’s capacity to see it, name it and fight it. And they did.

Catholic Christian nationalism is having a moment

By Ruth Braunstein — July 23, 2024
(RNS) — Christian nationalism has long been associated with white evangelicals. Now Catholics are emerging as some of Christian nationalism’s most muscular champions.

Mike Johnson embodies evangelicals’ embattlement strategy. It may be backfiring.

By Ruth Braunstein — November 6, 2023
(RNS) — The persecution complex that has emboldened evangelical culture for decades is putting it under strain.

Christian nationalists have provoked a pluralist resistance

By Ruth Braunstein — April 21, 2023
(RNS) — Those fighting for our democracy should be making headlines, too.

How the threat of ‘taxpayer-funded abortion’ is being used to mobilize conservative religious voters

By Ruth Braunstein — October 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — In the midterms, some religious voters may be motivated by the argument that if abortion is funded with tax dollars, it makes them personally complicit in sin.
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