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

By Chrissy Stroop

…al to force people to depend on their families, churches, “God,” and themselves to survive—and if they can’t hack it, tough. Paternalism of this sort leaves those who already have money firmly in charge of how society is run. Many exponents of this ideology consider themselves libertarians, since they don’t want state actors to do anything to level the economic playing field or help ordinary citizens get through times of crisis. Their sense of fai…

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

…erely restricting gender-affirming healthcare for trans minors has been shelved for now. A robust understanding of freedom of religion and an authentic embrace of pluralism do not allow for one group’s religious views to override the rights of others. The toleration of intolerance must have limits, or the intolerant will take over, to the detriment of all who fall afoul of their ideology. When the logical endpoint of your understanding of “freedom…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…by quipping, “Boring Christian music.” I could have endangered someone’s salvation, you see! Even now, I roll my eyes at the memory. And for all Shellnutt’s concern over addressing abuse around the concept of gossip, she fails to transcend this overwrought evangelical concern with appearance and reputation that so often conflicts with dedication to truth and justice, particularly when it comes to people who aren’t straight white men. But, in the w…

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

…from pushing an agenda against others, just want to live in peace as themselves. But this coalition cannot accept a world in which they have to coexist with people who don’t love the way they do, don’t identify themselves the way they do, and don’t relate to social conditioning the way they do. So no, this violence won’t end until it is stopped, because the pundits and politicians and trolls pushing this rhetoric want more violence. They’re alread…

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

By Anita Little

…sn’t just getting a few nonwhite speakers, it’s having people of color involved in every step of the decision-making, to prevent things like this from happening. “What happened with this conference is no different than what happens in evangelical spaces,” Khang says: They have the same blind spots and the language they use to excuse it is the same. I find that in Christian spaces, whether evangelical or progressive, we do not always critically exa…

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

By Anita Little

…Keller along with a $10,000 cash prize, second-year seminarian, Zachary Calvo, authored a petition with approximately 300 signatories from the PTS community protesting the choice. The letter stated Keller’s “exclusionary and prohibitive stances on the ordination of women and LGBTQ persons” was incongruous with the seminary’s values. In a phone interview, Calvo, who sits on the board of PTS’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Supporters, said t…

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…