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Will Rand Paul Break the Religious Outreach Mold?

By Sarah Posner

…gelicals to vote for his father in the caucuses. I spent time there and in South Carolina interviewing the elder Paul’s religious supporters, and none of them fit the mold of the sort of activists who were waiting for social conservative elites to rally around a candidate to decide who to vote for. I wouldn’t even really call them libertarians, in large part because of how they envisioned a drastically constrained federal government in order to ce…

The Southern Baptists’ “All Lives Matter” Approach to Racial Reconciliation Is Spiritual Malpractice

By Sunnivie Brydum and Joshua Lazard

…thin their denomination. That failure is one reason, among many, that some Southern Baptists of color, specifically black Southern Baptists, are questioning their formal affiliation in a denomination that apparently struggles to state, unequivocally, that Black Lives Matter. As lifelong Southern Baptist Lawrence Ware powerfully explained in his New York Times op-ed Monday, despite SBC resolutions heralding racial reconciliation as far back as 1995…

2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…akaway church had to return a cool $500 million to the Episcopal Church in South Carolina. But it also ruled that wedding cake bakers could discriminate against gay couples (or at least escape prosecution for it) if the state hurt their feelings. No, seriously, we wish we were kidding about this, and unfortunately, lower courts were just as bad. That would be miserable enough, but the court also held that the Trump administration could ban immigra…

Klobuchar Feeds Trolls with Pro-Life Outreach

By Daniel Schultz

…he bonanza it might seem. And this is before the campaign hits places like South Carolina, where black churchgoers have proven more friendly to Joe Biden so far. (edited) In the end, the whole subject is bollocks. There are plenty of pro-life Democrats, voters and elected officials alike. Nobody is going to chase them out, the complaints of a dogmatic few aside. All that’s going on here is that Klobuchar’s trying to muscle Biden and Buttigieg out…

Heavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem

By Liz Bucar

…broidery. But there’s no indication that it was commissioned by Maria Anna Carolina of Austria to bribe the pope for political favor; nor that Piux IX was one of the most authoritarian leaders in church history. Religious clothing matters when we understand it in a particular context. Otherwise, we miss the point. Another subject the exhibit was strangely silent about was the Church’s sex abuse scandal. Rick Owens’s provocative monastic robe with…

Behind New Zealand Terror Attack Is a Problem Bigger Than Islamophobia

By Murali Balaji

…, white Christian terrorists like Anders Breivik in Norway, Dylann Roof in South Carolina, and now Brenton Tarrant, are self-styled (and self-described) soldiers in a fight against greater threats: secularism and pluralism. While white Christian nationalism has its roots in the United States during Reconstruction, it grew in the 1960s as the evangelical movement attracted new congregants fearful of racial and gender equality activism. Over time, t…

After Synagogue Attack, Some Evangelicals Finally Owning Their Part in White Christian Nationalism

By Murali Balaji

…in the West have manifested into backlash and violence against Others (see South Carolina church massacre, New Zealand mosque attack, and synagogue shootings) is an important first step. Taking ownership of an ideology that has spawned—and will continue to spawn—extremist groups or lone wolves might be the best to way to eradicate it. Otherwise, white Christian leaders will continue to exist in denial about the way their racial and religious ident…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…Organization You Never Heard Of. As it happens, the then-governor of South Carolina inadvertently gave many in the mainstream media their first scenting of The Family’s existence when he told reporters that he’d received “counseling” from members of the group in connection with his adultery. Storey’s piece also brings to light Sanford’s extensive role in the Family’s embrace of extremely unsavory global actors: butchers like Sudan’s al-Bashir and…

Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…ys false and offensive things, even though Trump has made an unprecedented number of false or misleading statements during his tenure of less than three years in office—over 10,000 of them, according to The Washington Post. Authoritarians have a very different relationship to the truth than the rest of us, so when Trump claims he had the largest inauguration crowd in history, or Jeffress spouts the absurd lie that Democrats worship an ancient Meso…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…nstitutional and social racism. The White Christian academies installed in Southern churches in response to the desegregation of the public schools in the 50s and 60s were, by the 1970s, threatened by the potential loss of their tax-exemptions. Southern political leaders realized that times had changed and that direct appeals to racism were no longer going to work. So the honchos of what was then called the New Right, turned to anti-abortion activ…