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

…Right—is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the magazine’s Fall 2023/Winter 2024 issue. Former President Donald Trump, nursing personal grievances against “deep state” officials and White House staff who thwarted his plans to stay in power after his 2020 defeat, has made it clear that his second term would be far more dangerous to American democracy than his first. The Public Eye,…

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Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

…Lincoln Tubman Foundation, had their grants pushed through by Katharine Sullivan, head of the Orwellianly named Office of Justice Programs, against the formal recommendations of career Justice Department officials which had been made based on the reporting of outside experts. The two recommended organizations that were pushed aside, Chicanos Por La Causa and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach, appear to be victims of a political vend…

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The 11 Best #RealClergyBios Tweets

…g spread like Gospel on Twitter, with countless pastors and seminarians shelling out hard truths about everything from doubting one’s vocation to fighting for the church’s solvency to—if you’re a woman or non-white pastor—dealing with daily microaggressions. RD spoke to Indiana-based Presbyterian minister Mihee Kim-Kort, who launched #realclergybios as an offshoot of #realacademicbios, to get the story behind the hashtag. Scroll down for the 11 mo…

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10 Pro-LGBT #ChristiansVote Tweets From Anti-Gay, Pro-Trump Hashtag Hijack

…heir friends, family, and social media circles to get out and cast their ballots. But one Twitter hashtag intended to encourage Christians to vote for Donald Trump has been taken over by progressive Christians who say their faith calls them to stand up for the marginalized and the oppressed, and to reject the categorical hatred that this year’s GOP nominee has built his campaign upon. Originally started by the right-wing, anti-LGBT National Religi…

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11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You

…. Even the Clinton era made a ghostly appearance in the form of James Carville who Zoomed in from home with a half-empty bottle of Pappy Van Winkle over his shoulder. We get it. But besides getting likkered up, what have we done with all this anxiety and nervous energy? Brought it to Twitter of course. There were far too many insightful, hilarious, scathing, ironic, and otherwise round-up-worthy posts to include here, but this should give a little…

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Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

…moves—Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition has initiated a project called “Obama Watch.” From James Dobson’s Focus on the Family: In “Obama’s FCC Adviser Supports Limits on Talk Radio” FotF’s Citizenlink.com’s Jennifer Mesko reported that Obama named Henry Rivera, former head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “to run the team that will select the next [FCC] chairman. Mesko, maintaining that Rivera “is a longtime proponent of the…

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Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

…writers were looking forward to a sleepless night of encyclical reading followed by the bleary-eyed composition of hot takes and appearances on talk shows and radio on the morning of June 18, when the Vatican officially released it to the world. Then something weird happened: the encyclical leaked three days early. The journalist who wrote an introduction to the leaked draft in the Italian magazine L’Espresso, Sandro Magister, quickly was strippe…

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“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

…he real-life Biff Tannen to the seat of power. My social feeds have been full of expressions of disillusionment, like those of Yolanda Pierce and Brandi Miller here on RD. And indeed, as we see from the roundup of responses below, evangelical voices from across the spectrum have expressed everything from shock to bitterness to a public renunciation of the faith tradition they had considered their own. As our sensibilities are further pummeled in t…

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Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

…ch a real thing as dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark, although at least dinosaurs really did exist at one point in time, unlike commas in any ancient manuscript. Let me explain. Over the weekend, Grace Bible Theological Seminary provost and theology professor Owen Strachan set Twitter abuzz with a profoundly ignorant tweet that reads, in part, “There is not a single edit you could make to Scripture to improve it. Anything you would do to amend so much as a…

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Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

…ons I gave for why America’s conversation about Christianity is “fundamentally unserious” is that our elite public sphere systemically silences “the voices of leavers, nonbelievers, and religious minorities in discussing Christianity and ‘religious freedom.’” As a case in point, I brought up Christianity Today columnist Bonnie Kristian arguing in The Week that any objection to the Christian practice of proselytizing must be based in either partisa…

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