Slate: “On Monday night at the DNC, Sen. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, embraced faith from the political left in a way that was dramatically different. Warnock called out Trump for weaponizing religious symbols and speech in ways that violate core religious values and leveled blame at certain churches for a willingness to endorse Trumpism at all costs. Warnock is hardly the first Democrat to refuse to cede the language of religious faith to the GOP and to root progressive values in faith values. But these efforts still seem unfamiliar on the left. I spoke to Ilyse Hogue, a senior fellow at New America, the author of The Lie That Binds—a history of the religious right’s authoritarian crusade against abortion—and the first person to, in 2016, tell her own story of elective abortion for the stage at the DNC, about what a robust progressive embrace of a thick civic religion could look like. Our conversation, which took place over email, has been edited and condensed for clarity.”