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Purity Culture is Also About National Purity: Anti-Asian Hate and Purity Culture [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

The three and a half minute clip below, exclusive to RD, is from Bradley Onishi’s opening monologue of the March 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Onishi and Daniel Miller. RD will be collaborating with SWAJ to regularly bring you audio and transcripts on Christian nationalism, “conversion therapy,” purity culture, and more. — eds https://religiondispatches.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Anti-Asian-Hate-and-Purity-C…

The Right’s Satanic-Grammy-Panic Isn’t About the Devil or Pfizer or Even Scantily-Clad Women — It’s All About the Transphobia

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…power and control. So, Sam Smith dressing up as a devilish goatman for a 3-minute performance isn’t really going to turn people into devil worshipers is it? Was there a sudden rise in the purchase of devil tails from Party City (or whatever was around in the ‘Dark Ages’) after The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For the Devil” dropped in 1968? Was there an uptick in sales of hell maps when AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” came out in 1979? Was Lucifer spotted…

How the Christian Nationalist Version of ‘The American Story’ Enabled Georgia’s Anti-Black Voter Restriction Law [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

…n beneath a painting of a former slave plantation. In this exclusive three-minute clip from the March 26 episode of Straight White American Jesus, hosts Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller discuss the mindset that enables such blatantly anti-democratic and racist policy. RD will be collaborating with SWAJ to regularly bring you exclusive audio clips and transcripts on Christian nationalism, “conversion therapy,” purity culture, and more, all of which…

James Dobson’s Family Values Were Influenced by a Eugenicist [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

This exclusive three-minute clip, featuring historian Audrey Clare Farley, is from the May 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller. RD will be collaborating with SWAJ to regularly bring you audio and transcripts on Christian nationalism, “conversion therapy,” purity culture, and more. — eds https://religiondispatches.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Audrey-Clare-Farley-RD-Clip-.ogg Bradley…

UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…ending, we lay waste our powers.” My theory of the case is that we bien pensant folks of a progressive persuasion believe that we have private lives to live and that the thorny challenges we face in the public sphere will just have to resolve themselves. Many of us who are white have a degree of wealth to preserve and to pass on, and those who are old can hear Time’s winged chariot hovering nearby. We’ve just been through an anxious moment with Co…

A New Book By Esteemed Sociologist Robert Wuthnow Struggles to Show ‘Why Religion is Good for American Democracy’

By Peter Laarman

…opposing sides shows that religion is doing its job. But when justice and sanity hang in the balance, we need more than Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum from religion, do we not? I must say I found it astonishing that this careful scholar ended his book while leaving behind a huge and glaring omission. It dumbfounds me that someone could write a book about religion and democracy in the American context without addressing faith community responses to t…

Liberals Need Not Choose Between Sexual Abuse Survivors and the Religious Minority Communities That Failed Them

By Afzal Upal

…or vengeance.” Then, on January 8, 2022, The Daily Mail reported that a 44-minute audio recording had gone viral featuring a leaked conversation between an alleged rape victim and the Ahmadi Khalifa. In it, she bemoans the fact that the Khalifa has failed to hold a number of high officials accused of rape accountable for their actions. In response the Khalifa suggests that she either stay quiet or leave the Ahmadiyya Jama’at (i.e. the community) i…

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…d they hope eventually more will show up, to the tune of thousands and thousands. Benita Pedersen, an organizer from Alberta, was interviewed by a sympathetic Christian YouTube channel about what they’re doing. Pedersen says she felt a “call on her heart” to do this. She’d been given a steer horn by a local farmer. She knew she had to bring it to Ottawa and that she had to do a Jericho March. She’s now using that steer horn as a shofar. She says t…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…have been confirmed to her seat on the US Supreme Court, barring any last-minute stalling tactics by Republicans or unanticipated defections by Democrats. Even so—and even though Jackson’s Senate hearings were far more performative than deliberative—it’s worth considering the role faith played in those hearings. It has something to tell us about how the media talks about religion and politics, and about how American society at large talks about t…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…t honestly, inside the walls of the church this Lent has been absolutely amazing. Our notoriety came at the very end of Lent. For the first five Sundays what was front and center is the beautiful, joyful, amazing contributions to sacred music that have come from the global majority of Christians, which is people of color. The music has been as good as I can remember it, with the choir having a blast with the new repertoire. Our congregation has be…