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Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…the growing demand. There is no discrimination in the Muslim community in Panama City, Bhattay said. “Maybe ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, there was.” People move fluidly, attending events at whichever mosque they prefer. Others tell a different story. Samima Patel converted to Islam twelve years ago and is married to an Indian man. Though Jama Mosque is more inclusive of converts now than before, she doesn’t feel completely welcome in the Ind…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ich are seen as “old wineskins.” In reporting on the NAR, one should note that networks that may appear to be new, may simply be rebranded versions of older apostolic networks. For example, in 1998, Wagner founded the Apostolic Council for Educational Accountability (ACEA). Its mission: …was to provide schools/training programs identified with the New Apostolic Reformation a creative alternative way to establish credibility through accountable rel…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ed to “obliterate the deep state,”[5] throw off “the sick political class that hates our country,” and “come down hard” on media outlets critical of him.[6] In the words of Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an NYU professor and author of a book about strongmen in modern history,[7] “He wants to convert American democracy into some kind of autocracy.”[8] Project 2025, an unprecedented collaboration[9] among former Trump officials and the Right’s legal and political…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…gress of Families (discussed below), wage a spiritual war in the name of “what they call ‘the natural family,’ that is, a nuclear family consisting of a married man and woman and their children.” For the quote and more information on the role that WCF plays in the global pro-family movement, see Chrissy Stroop, “A Right-Wing International?” The Public Eye, February 16, 2016. [14] Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narrative, Postmodernism,…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…has received, the conservative justices just couldn’t help themselves. The code states that, in deciding whether to make a public appearance, justices are to “consider whether doing so would create an appearance of impropriety in the minds of reasonable members of the public,” (emphasis mine). Not only is “reasonable” a virtually impossible standard to find agreement over, but the conservative majority also made sure to include a generous, Federal…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…ldren won’t learn these basic facts now. We urge the publishers to ensure that other children still will. Gaddy offered to stand by any publishers that refuse to write textbooks to meet the revised standards. I realize times are tough in the publishing business, so I’m really curious whether publishers will resist this push to whitewash history. I have a feeling, however, that they will decide, perhaps, to try to strike a compromise and meet Texas…

You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

By Daniel Schultz

…s. It’s not so much that he advertises a book telling his life story, nor that he claims that faith was an integral part of his recovery from addiction. It’s nothing that a hundred other writers—this writer included—haven’t told. No, it’s the sheer giddy, delirious enthusiasm with which he makes his sell that really sets this apart. It’s like a warm, friendly bubble bath at the end of the day, except all the bubbles are formed of lysergic acid and…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…s fellow Christians to hell. His new book, A Call to Resurgence, follows that script arguing that only 8% of Americans are “true evangelicals,” while simultaneously, and apparently without a hint of irony, calling on Christians to “stop fighting and unite.” Driscoll’s nose for controversy has earned him a consistent presence in the news cycle, perhaps comparable only to Pat Robertson’s. But unlike Robertson, who’s generally regarded as a kook, D…

In ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Hopper Needs to Leave His Christian-Reaganite Indy Jones Hat Behind

By Jason Bartashius

…ana Jones, the character he was only somewhat inspired by. It’s no secret that the police chief’s hat and gruff personality are nods to Harrison Ford’s Jones. Actor David Harbour has even promised “Indiana Jones-type action” in Stranger Things 4. This doesn’t mesh well with Gunning’s optimistic theory that Hop’s much-anticipated dark backstory will again show his vulnerable side. Whatever The Duffer Brothers have in store for Hopper, one thing’s f…

Apocalyptic Rhetoric at Moms for Liberty Summit Illustrates Political Challenge of 2024

By Chrissy Stroop

…ces he appointed, and claimed that Moms for Liberty’s political opponents “hate religion” and “hate God.” Since the early days of his 2016 run when Trump’s “Two Corinthians” gaffe made many mocking headlines, he’s actually learned to speak evangelical reasonably well—at least for someone with such a limited ability to express essentially coherent thoughts. As I’ve belabored before, clearly recognizing White evangelicals as his most supportive demo…