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Christian Health Sharing Ministries Aren’t All Corrupt — But Here’s Why They Are a Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

In my previous column here at RD, I used historical retrospective and my personal memories of the 1990s era Christian opposition to “Hillarycare” to contextualize the colossal failure of Sharity, a major Christian health sharing ministry (CHSM) that’s currently in the process of being liquidated, leaving some 10,000 families in the lurch with some $300 million of unpaid medical claims. My primary goal was to explore the cultural reasons that many…

New Clashes in Portland Confirm that Christian Nationalism Remains a Clear and Present Danger

By Chrissy Stroop

On Friday, August 7, the Department of Homeland Security announced to state and local authorities that an uptick in violent online chatter about the Big Lie of “election fraud” might lead to more anti-democratic street violence like what the United States experienced on January 6. As if on cue, violent clashes between white supremacists and Christian nationalists on one side, and anti-fascist protestors on the other, broke out that very day and t…

Another Manufactured Outrage: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did Nothing Wrong in Listing Hamas, Israel, and U.S. Together

By Joshua Shanes

Last week, Representative Ilhan Omar asked Secretary of State Tony Blinken a straightforward question. It was prompted by recent cases brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging war crimes, or crimes against humanity, by both Israel and Hamas in Israel/Palestine, and by Afghan, Taliban and American forces in Afghanistan. The ICC, based in the Hague, is charged with prosecuting these terrible crimes and its right to do so has been…

Student Expelled from Sorority for Transphobia Illustrates the Problem with Evangelical Understanding of Pluralism

By Chrissy Stroop

A prominent theologian, an angry conservative undergraduate, and the leadership of a sorority set out to define an ethical relationship to pluralism. Oddly enough, the only punchline here is that this isn’t the set-up for a joke. Instead, this is contemporary America, and only the sorority, Alpha Phi International Women’s Fraternity and its Delta Tau chapter at Louisiana State University, got it right. Emily Hines, the undergraduate in question,…

What’s Wrong with Taming the Tongue? ‘Gossip’ and the Limits of Evangelical Abuse Prevention Efforts

By Chrissy Stroop

As has become increasingly clear to outside observers in recent years, conservative evangelicals don’t exactly have a stellar record when it comes to addressing sexual misconduct and various forms of abuse in their institutions. When the #ChurchToo movement emerged in 2018, and Jules Woodson spoke out about being sexually assaulted as a teenager by her then youth pastor, Andy Savage, Savage tried to get ahead of the story by admitting to a “sexua…

News Flash: Christian Supporters of Kenosha Killer are Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

With white evangelicals, America’s most pro-Trump demographic, currently in the news for sex scandals, committing violence, and defending violence, we once again find the meaning of Christianity being debated in the public sphere. The Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo is under fire, as it should be, for hosting a campaign to raise money for the legal defense of Kenosha, Wisconsin killer Kyle Rittenhouse after the seventeen-year-old domestic…

Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down

By Thomas Lecaque

There was a mass murder. I know, this is America, so I have to be more specific. And since the one I’m thinking of, at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, we’ve had several more—mass shooting events are so common in America you may have missed the others. On November 23rd, the Gun Violence Archive had counted 606 this year alone. In one of them, the mass shooting at Club Q, on Saturday night, November 19th, five people were killed. Nineteen wer…

A Progressive Christian Conference With an All-White Lineup: What Could Go Wrong?

By Anita Little

Preaching Peace, a progressive Christian organization that aims to achieve peace through the application of mimetic theory, recently released the lineup for its inaugural Peace of the Gospel conference. The keynote schedule, which included some heavy hitters of the progressive Christian world like Diana Butler-Bass and Brian McLaren, was completely devoid of any persons of color and the breakout speakers were virtually all white. “The lack of div…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

“Marginalized” was the word Religion News Service columnist Jonathan Merritt used to describe the treatment of NYC celebrity pastor Tim Keller after Princeton Theological Seminary rescinded his Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Witness this week. The decision to not give Keller, Redeemer Presbyterian Church founder and prolific church planter, the award came after an outcry from many PTS students, faculty and alu…

New Poll Shows: White Evangelicals Are Still Dancing With the One That Brung ‘Em

By Anita Little

According to recently released poll numbers, President Trump seems to have retained much of the base that swept him into the Oval Office. An astonishing 88 percent of those who originally backed Trump during his campaign approve of his current job performance, and 91 percent of his original supporters still have a favorable view of him. This is a man who threw together a crackerjack team of unqualified bigots for his cabinet, possibly colluded wi…