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Op-Ed: Religious People Must Oppose Attacks on Planned Parenthood

By John Selders

…failed to extend Medicaid benefits to low-income people, and have voted in Washington dozens of times to repeal President Obama’s health care law. More than that, though, the on-going attacks on women have a much more sinister motive. They are designed to mobilize fear and hate for electoral purposes; to mobilize an aggrieved base of angry, primarily white voters to eradicate the freedoms and liberties of women, people of color, immigrants, the LB…

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

By Robert P. Jones

…t they cannot stand is that in the end, we do not answer to bureaucrats in Washington. We answer to God in heaven. We do, we answer to God in heaven. So today, I come before you as a friend, an ally, and a fellow believer to ask for your help and your support and your prayers for this country. We need your prayers. Most importantly. And I make you a simple promise. In my first term, I fought for Christians harder than any President has ever done b…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Act did even though it is designed to achieve many of the same goals. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers raised the question at a State Department briefing this week; spokesperson Mark Toner said, “Certainly we’d be concerned about any proposed legislation that would further limit gay rights in Uganda or put LGBT populations under any duress.” Maldives: ‘Lenient no more’ Police arrested two men on charges of homosexual activity. According to a…

Pope Francis Loves Nuns, But Can the Divide Between Sisters and Vatican Be Healed?

By Megan Sweas

…is year’s “Nuns on the Bus” tour starts in St. Louis this week and ends in Washington, D.C., in time for the start of the papal visit on September 23. Its theme, “bridge the divide,” refers to the political divide in our country, but the trip also speaks to the need for healing between sisters and church leadership. “Obviously, Pope Francis’ message is exactly what we’ve been doing for 43 years,” Campbell told Religion News Service. “Having that a…

Speaker Mike Johnson to Allow Privately Run National Prayer Breakfast into the Heart of the Capitol

By Jonathan Larsen

…e United States. The breakfast was always, however, held miles away at the Washington Hilton—where thousands of Family guests convened for days of meetings and breakout sessions. That tradition was disrupted by the pandemic. Last year, the breakfast was held at the modern-era Capitol Visitor Center. On Thursday, apparently, it will inch even closer to the heart of the U.S. government. “Every time these guys get a beachhead into government for thei…

Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?

By Robert Repino

…and costly. But if nothing else, as Kate Cohen explained last year in the Washington Post, the deconverted can be honest with themselves after years of trying to reconcile their faith with their personal experiences. Some of the responses to Cohen’s article demonstrate an almost comical double standard in this discourse. While our culture encourages a high level of deference for conversion stories, deconversion and apostasy rarely get the same re…

Will This Relic Change Our Whole View of Early American History?

By Ed Simon

…bshell,” while James Horn, the director of Jamestown Rediscovery, told the Washington Post that, “It’s the most remarkable archaeology discovery of recent years…. It’s a huge deal.” Describing the box as a “sacred object of great significance,” Horn believes that it’s clear evidence of Archer’s crypto-Catholic allegiances in Protestant England’s first American colony. The Post conjectures that Archer may have been the leader of a secret Catholic c…

How the Christian Right Can Save America from Donald Trump

By Sarah Posner

…ntinues to blow smoke on his alleged love for the Bible. The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, who has been writing glowing accounts of Trump’s appeal to evangelicals, is out with a new Trump interview, during which the real estate mogul utters many words about the Bible but, once again, doesn’t appear to actually know much about it—or what evangelicals believe about it. “There’s so many things that you can learn from it (The Bible). P…

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

…vantage point with readers. The Pacific Northwest—particularly, Oregon and Washington, where he resides—is central to Neiwert’s account of organized violence on the Far Right. A quick look at the region’s past and present illustrates why this focus is warranted. As a center of the Klan in the 1920s and neonazi skinheads in the 1980s, and where Anti-Racist Action and antifa came into their own, the Pacific Northwest is where activists continue to f…

Fiorina Wins Social Conservative Hearts Over Planned Parenthood… and Trump

By Sarah Posner

…eep it alive to harvest its brain” is not quite accurate, according to the Washington Post, although in one video, a technician “described witnessing a scene similar to Fiorina’s description.” But no matter—Fiorina’s full-throated condemnation of the reviled Planned Parenthood plays well with social conservatives. Here’s Charmaine Yoest, president of the influential anti-abortion group Americans United for Life: Huge moment in the debate tonight….