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Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…blo—a people. That seems about right. In many ways, the church functions like a kind of landless state, with baptism as its passport. It comes equipped with dynastic royalty, a capital, and a shimmering white palace. Immigrants, too, can be citizens, wherever they may be. Back in Chattanooga, I chatted with Isaac Juárez, a native of the Mexican state of Puebla who has lived in the United States for ten years. Isaac was born into the church. Cathol…

Does the Inquisition Explain the Modern World?

By Gordon Haber

…egan in 1480, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sought to root out backsliding conversos, Jews and Muslims who had converted to Christianity but were supposedly practicing their original faiths in secret. It ended in the early nineteenth century, as the Church’s temporal power weakened. While it lasted, tens of thousands were tried and thousands executed (Murphy is understandably vague on the statistics). As late as the 19th century, inquisit…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…story textbooks up for adoption. Back in 2010, after the current social studies TEKS were established, the Christian Right bloc on the SBOE claimed to have uncovered “pro-Islam anti-Christian bias” in Texas textbooks. Though skeptical of those claims, I nevertheless was on the lookout in my own review process for signs of bias for or against any religious tradition. I found no traces of a “pro-Islam anti-Christian bias” in the textbooks I reviewed…

DeVos Literally Can’t Name a Discriminatory Policy She’d Refuse to Fund

By Sunnivie Brydum

In a tense exchange with Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark on Wednesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos refused to identify a single example of discriminatory policies that would make a private school ineligible for federal funding. The conversation, captured by CSPAN and embedded below, is astounding in how clearly it exposes the scope of “faith-based” discriminatory actions that DeVos is willing to permit. Rep. Clark, a Democrat who has “m…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…es have led the national anti-choice group Americans United for Life to rank Texas fourth in the country for its “aggressive legislative action over the past several years.” Another front is in the streets, where Catholic activists have led the way, praying and proselytizing in front of clinics that provide abortions, aiming to persuade patients that not only is abortion contrary to God’s will, but that it will cause them untold harm, from mental…

“Papers Please”: The Legal Battle Over Church Sex-Abuse Files

By Omar Shamout

…lawyers and victims have climbed the same legal mountain as Boucher. Kelly Clark, a trial attorney in Portland, Oregon, has litigated over 100 individual sex-abuse claims against the Catholic Church. He represented 55 victims in a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Portland after it filed for bankruptcy in 2004. The settlement, which covered 146 total claimants, was finally reached in 2007 and valued at $75 million. Clark and several other attorne…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…tory to fit a conservative agenda and a Christian-dominated worldview. Jay Diskey, executive director of the school division of the Association of American Publishers, called the idea that the Texas standards would impact the education of students in other states “an urban myth.” Diskey said publishers have been customizing separate state editions since 1994 when the federal government required each state to come up with its own separate academic…

The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…I am reminded that: “You can take the person out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the person.” Aside from the very real hurt these laws would cause to me and to those most dear to me, they also betray our state’s proud tradition of welcome, codified in our one-word motto—“Friendship.” I came to faith while living in Texas, came to understand myself as queer in Texas when I was quite young, and came to understand myself as transgender in T…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…hods to remain monarchists and Marxists. So the government of the State of Texas, like every other state, has the obligation to itself to create citizens—from an early age—in its own image. This image, then, requires the inculcation of a particular identity, which is accomplished primarily through social studies courses like history and government. And this is what the Texas SBOE has recently accomplished: the establishment of standards, through a…

New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

By David R. Brockman

…aign that first gained widespread attention thanks to reporting by Frederick Clarkson here on Religion Dispatches. Yet another nationally prominent Texan is Robert Jeffress, senior pastor at the 13,000-member First Baptist Dallas church. His Pathway to Victory radio and television ministry is carried by more than 900 U.S. radio stations as well as the Christian television networks Daystar and Trinity Broadcasting Network. However, he’s probably be…