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Sarah Posner

Sarah Posner is a Prospect senior correspondent and associate editor of Religion Dispatches, where she writes a blog about religion and politics. The author of God's Profits: Faith Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters (PoliPoint 2008), her work has also appeared in the Nation, Salon, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and other publications.

Recent Articles

The FundamentaList (No. 4)

Dobson courts Pentecostals, scandal rocks Oral Roberts University, a Christian men's organization tries to regroup, and does shalom mean peace to Christian Zionists?

Sarah PosnerOct 10, 2007

1. Third Parties and the Fourth Estate

The FundamentaList (No. 3)

Will the Christian right name its own third-party candidate? Reaching out to Jews who missed Jesus, and a Christian stance on global warming.

Sarah PosnerOct 03, 2007

1. A Third Party Christian Right Candidate? Not a Chance.

The FundamentaList (No. 2)

Pressure mounts to rally 'round a GOP candidate (but which one?), Christians atone with cash on Yom Kippur, and how the White House has angered some of its faith-based grant recipients.

Sarah PosnerSep 26, 2007

1. Christian Right Feels Pressure to Pick a GOP Candidate

While Mitt Romney was courting Michigan's monied elite, Mike Huckabee missed his coach flight and couldn't afford the charter jet to Mackinac Island to join him. No matter. Huckabee had just won the straw poll at the Palmetto Family Council in South Carolina, and he was continuing to feel the evangelical wind at his back.

The FundamentaList (No. 1)

The quest for Dobson's endorsement, the Values Voter Debate, Bible codes about 9-11, Santorum's prep for war with Iran, and televangelist domestic violence.

Sarah PosnerSep 19, 2007
The IRS cleared James Dobson, president of Focus on the Family, to endorse presidential candidates without violating his organization's tax status. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Editor's Note: Introducing a new regular feature at TAP Online in which Sarah Posner, author of the forthcoming book God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, counts down the week's top news about the religious right. Look for it every Wednesday.

1. IRS Says Dobson Can Endorse Candidates

Christian Legal Group Represents Missouri in Abortion Case

Gov. Matt Blunt's office contracted with a Christian organization to defend the state in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood over newly enacted regulations targeting abortion clinics.

Sarah PosnerAug 30, 2007

In a tone befitting a pubescent spat, the director of Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services last week informed the state Attorney General Jay Nixon that she would not be using his services in a lawsuit filed against the state by Planned Parenthood seeking to have a restrictive abortion law declared unconstitutional. It was a highly unusual move, since the attorney general is the state's lawyer, and it is his job to defend the constitutionality of state statutes when they are challenged in court.

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