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The End of My Line: It’s Okay to Embrace The ‘Covid Baby Bust’

By Monica Byrne

…There’s only one column, labeled “Destination.” It includes Vietnam, Peru, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Cuba, and Ireland. My life doesn’t feel long enough to possibly go to all the places I want to go. My body doesn’t even feel big enough to hold all of the longings I feel. I’m confused when people ask me whether I’m lonely. I already feel like a small country. I do admit—especially as I turn 40 this summer—sometimes I still feel haunted by the nature of t…

Evangelicals in Moral Panic Over Exvangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…al youth. And in late May, within the space of a week, evangelical blogger Jordan Steffaniak and celebrity author Francis Chan both offered their “solutions” to the “problem.” In a fit of what sure looks like protesting too much, some of these panicking souls, including Steffaniak, can’t help but tell readers how glad they are to not be us. Such rhetoric belies an obvious, and frankly obviously desperate, attempt to keep the exvangelical bugbear w…

Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?

By Chrissy Stroop

…le, yesterday, just one day after the shooting in Uvalde, The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd, an alum of the evangelical Baylor University, published an article titled “Tragedies Like The Texas Shooting Make A Somber Case For Homeschooling.” She argues that “to protect the most precious, innocent lives among us, parents must educate their kids at home,” adding that “families can’t trust government schools… to bring their children or teachers home safely…

Paranormal Vodka, Exorcists and a Demonic Doll: Welcome to Paracon, Based on the Work of the Demon-Hunters Who Inspired the ‘Conjuring’ Series

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…ms, and Native American-themed décor, finally ending just past the Michael Jordan Steakhouse. Convention goers continue to pile up behind us, all waiting for their chance to see the collection of Warren relics and to catch a rare glimpse of the main attraction, Annabelle, the supposedly demon-possessed Raggedy Anne doll who terrorized two nursing students and their roommate over a period of months in 1970. Although I can’t find an official number,…

Hell in a Cell: ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ Reflects the Growing Belief That Cocksure Men Will Save Us in the Battle of Good v. Evil

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…to introduce a match called “hell in a cell.” The message from this cross-promotion seems clear: exorcism isn’t a matter of prayer so much as it is a spectacle pitting man against demon. Ironically, however, Slate’s Molly Olmstead argues that this is why the real-life exorcists of the IAE did not like the film. “Many exorcists will try to present an exorcism not as a dramatic battle with the devil,” she writes, “but as a boring task—and a simple…

Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…en create hard times.” In the trailer to Carlson’s propaganda flick, which promotes racist anxiety about falling (White) birth rates caused by low sperm count in men who’ve grown too weak to procreate, the narrator’s voice rumbles “and so the cycle begins again.” The spiritual tone is no coincidence as I pointed out in a previous piece for Religion Dispatches: “[…] the video describes a form of traditionalism which Steve Bannon and Putin confidant…

Mike Johnson isn’t Just Your Average Christian Right Avatar — He’s Influenced by Fringe Movements Unfamiliar to Most Political Analysts

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ng signal to the country. Amy Coney Barrett taught ADF fellowships and was promoted to the Supreme Court. Josh Hawley did the same and is now a US Senator. Now Mike Johnson, who worked for this same group, is in the presidential line of succession. It’s terrifying.” Indeed, Johnson has a long, well-documented history of bigoted views toward LGBTQ people. In 2005, he claimed that same-sex domestic partnership ordinances were fraudulent—that they we…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…person he’s delivering it to is not in fact Trump, but—wait for it—Michael Jordan (Damon might want to phone his lawyers). This unites the two seemingly contradictory elements of Trumpism: the fascist reverence for a god-like leader who his supporters have made a core part of their own identities—and the laughable act of a presidential candidate reposting a fanfic-video with a speech lifted from a basketball movie, and then preposterously applying…

Anxiety About Homosexuality and Apocalyptic Worldview is An Old Marriage: 10 Questions for the Author of Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England

By H. G. Cocks

…dern period have written about religion and sexuality in recent years—Mark Jordan, Sue Morgan, Jacqueline DeVries and others. They have recognised that religion is a vital context for understanding morals and the history of sexuality. Using the material in the book was a good way of extending this treatment of these two themes backwards in time. I am also a great admirer of the British writer Marina Warner, who has written some great books about h…

WikiLacks: Did Clinton Campaign Mock Catholics? Not Really

By Patricia Miller

…ng their kids Catholic, noting that Murdoch even had his kids baptized “in Jordan where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.” Halpin went on to say, “Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the [Supreme Court] and think tanks to the media and social groups.” This isn’t a “mocking” of Catholics or an attack on them, it’s merely an observation of the fact that while most people associate poli…