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Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…he commander “to identify herself.”[4] “Everyone was appalled,” St. Clair recalled. “What sort of armed group gets protected status like that?”[5] To understand militias’ potential to undermine county-level democracy from within, we’ve looked at Bedford and three other Virginia counties whose boards of supervisors considered resolutions to formally recognize militias: Campbell, Franklin, and Halifax. These resolutions are part of a process we call…

2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism

By Becky Garrison

…roduction of President Biden, the NPB remains decidedly Christian. In his decades of research into The Family, author and journalist Jeff Sharlet observed how this secretive organization behind the NPB promotes a “specific vision of Jesus as the ideal ‘strongman’ [that] governs their political theology,” adding that they “found, in strongman-sympathetic Trump, an ideal vessel for their beliefs.” As reported by The Young Turks, while Trump may be a…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…rs have been anticipating a revolution against the federal government for decades. Participants’ aim is to set up a collective salvation on earth for white people who regard themselves as the true “natives” of the land that is now the United States. In the 1990s, participants in this white supremacist movement that had no name, which I have termed the Euro-American Nativist Millennial Movement, were waiting and preparing to carry out a “Second Ame…

As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…President Joe Biden’s victory in November’s presidential election, the advocacy organization American Atheists released its State of the Secular States report, detailing the complex state-level legislative landscape on church-state separation issues for 2020 and laying out areas of concern for 2021. Sensibly framed in terms of promoting religious equality for all—including the nonreligious—the annual report, which American Atheists first issued in…

‘Theological Porn’: The Most Egregious Religious Idea of 2021 is a Tie

By Mary E. Hunt

…n some unfathomable context it’s acceptable to force people to give birth because after nine months of gestation the baby can be dropped off at the neighborhood fire station for someone else to raise. The people in this scenario (to Justice Barrett and her ilk they’re always seen as women) are considered to be containers of reproduction. The babies are disregarded as if the experience of separation is not traumatic and will not echo in their psych…

After Michael Jerryson (1974-2021) Nobody Will Ever Look at Buddhism the Same Way

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…akes clear that he is not out to trash the tradition. Quite the opposite. Because Jerryson lived and worked with Buddhists in Mongolia, Thailand, and elsewhere, he felt a kinship with the Buddhist community and an admiration for its tradition. But Jerryson was also a scholar with enormous intellectual curiosity. As he explained in a 2010 essay in Religion Dispatches (later republished in the Utne Reader), “Monks with Guns: Discovering Buddhist Vio…

Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…a decisive issue for white evangelical voters. As a young evangelical, it became the single issue that determined my vote: The few times I garnered the courage to admit my uncertainty to other ministers they looked at me in disbelief. Despite my reasoning that the war in Afghanistan was leading to the deaths of innocent people and that more support for the poor, for single parents, and for education all seemed to align with Jesus’ message, my spir…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…latter was a feature of the far right of the anti-abortion movement for a decade before the Southern Baptist Convention surprised the world by making it policy at their June 2021 convention. The resolution explicitly called for “abolition” and rejected “any position that allows for any exceptions to the legal protection of our preborn neighbors.” In recent years, such legislation has been introduced in 6 states, including Oklahoma where conservati…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…er. How quickly times change. Things went downhill fast when Donald Trump became president and prioritized the Christian Right’s policy goals, including attacks on the rights of transgender Americans. And even now with Democrat Joe Biden as president and Democrats in control of the Senate, things continue to get worse for trans folks year over year. It’s long been clear that the widespread use of false, inflammatory, and dehumanizing anti-trans rh…

Two people on a podium with a board that reads "Project 2025 kills democracy"

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

By Peter Montgomery

…legal giant Alliance Defending Freedom. They are accompanied by newer advocacy groups created by former Trump administration officials, including the Center for Renewing America and Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, which alone took in $44 million in 2022.[17] Project 2025 builds on a tradition started when Heritage presented then President-elect Ronald Reagan with its “Mandate for Leadership” policy wish list.[18] Heritage does not describe…