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Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence

By Chrissy Stroop

…munity, in a now-deleted Facebook post. Meanwhile, Keller’s colleague, GOP Ohio State Representative John Becker, shared to his public Facebook page the following meme: Several people replied with “Amen,” while another commented, “So true. These leftist [sic]. without morals need to be stopped.” Becker’s meme represents the same kind of fallacious argument made by sometime Alabama State Supreme Court Chief Justice and Senate candidate Roy Moore, w…

Why Darwin Keeps Coming Back

By Peter Manseau

…ine hand is detectable in nature. It’s an argument that might be more convincing if the current anti-evolutionary moment did not have so much in common with Darwin’s earlier posthumous appearances on the national stage. In our periodic national obsession with evolution, we’re living now in a post-Dover era. The 2005 court case between parents and a religiously conservative Pennsylvania school district successful challenged the teaching of intellig…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…November and the inaugural in January?” Last week, the Family Research Council announced “that that the European Court of Human Rights has granted permission for the organization to defend Ireland’s ban on the practice of abortion.” The organization will be represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and organizations. In a press release, Bill Saunders, FRC’s Human Rights Counsel and Senior Fellow of the Cent…

In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…“Persecuted Christians.” Trump praises the convicted felons who have been incarcerated because of their participation in the violent insurrection he himself incited on January 6, 2021, calling them “persecuted Christians” and “hostages.” He calls his political opponents “very evil people.” Before Trump spoke, his campaign set the stage for his remarks by playing a version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” sung by a group he has dubbed “the J6 prison c…

Evolution ‘Doesn’t Make Any Sense’: A Scene From a Classroom

By Lauri Lebo

…en making the round of science blogs the past couple days. It’s from a science classroom in Dayton, TN. (Home to the famous Scopes Monkey Trial.) These kids are now grownups of about 30. Many no doubt have children of their own, who likely continue to mindlessly parrot the same creationist talking points of their parents. And so, the circle of life continues. The most frustrating part is that the students appear to have genuine confusion over evol…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…einforced and maintained at every level. In other words, science isn’t science; it’s a way of bending the stories we tell about nature in order to support a larger political goal. It’s going to take a lot more than scientific evidence, rational thought, and reasoned debate to get people to accept the very real fact that in the scientific community, there is no debate over whether evolution is real. Sadly, most of the fighting continues to take pla…

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…ments like Christian Science and spiritualism, which staked a claim to science convincing enough to attract the interest of some leading scientists. The strain continues in the New Age movement’s excitement for quantum physics. Today, perhaps its most important expression comes in the form of the John Templeton Foundation, established in 1987 with the fortune of a big-thinking Presbyterian investor who had been deeply influenced by metaphysical re…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…r the most part, Christians were not biblical literalists and accepted science—including the ideas that the earth was very old and that living creatures changed through time. A typical interpretation of the Genesis account viewed the six days not as literal 24-hour periods, but as separate, lengthy spans of time. But in the early 1900s, a religious conference was held in reaction to the liberal theology of the time. From the conference, The Fundam…

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

By Jonathan L. Walton

…eminary in Atlanta and the D.Min program at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Sure, she introduced us to Those Preaching Women. But she, along with her partner Henry, also introduced the world to the aural vivacity and theological sophistication of the black spoken word tradition that extends back to the West African griot. And, more importantly, she helped to open the minds (and improve the preaching) of scores of male clergy who claim…

USCCB’s Dolan Blesses Ryan Budget

By Sarah Posner

…erate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress. This fundamental concern should have great urgency for Catholic policy makers. Yet, even now, you work in opposition to it. As the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has documented, “cuts in low-income programs appear likely to account for at least $2.9 trillion — or nearly two-thirds” of the $4.5 trillion in cuts in the Ryan proposal, including cuts to Medicaid, Pell grants, food stamps…