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Unintended Consequences: Overturning Roe v. Wade May Endanger This Cherished Evangelical Practice

By R.L. Stollar

…Protestants support significant restrictions on abortion, almost twice the number of white mainline Protestants (39%) and substantially higher than even Catholics (45%). As many homeschoolers are evangelical Christians, it makes sense that homeschoolers have been key forced-birth advocates. But that’s also because forced-birth messages are being promoted from the top of the homeschool pyramid. (“The homeschool world is organized as a pyramid,” wri…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…have any cities of interest that you’d feel most compelled to go to? Well, Texas has a huge amount of megachurches. That’s like the biggest state for megachurches and would be an interesting addition to the project. But I’m not really sure of where I would go. One of your megachurch “megazines” is on view at a gallery in Paris, and it made me curious about how Europeans see megachurches and “big box” religion. Do you have any idea where that fasci…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…ifies our understanding of creation. Citizens of the Christian Republic of Texas have taken the broadcast as a sign of the long-overdue apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Head Dawkins of the English Secular Atheist Community has announced that the “…discovery of alien life once-and-for-all disproves the idea of a creator god.” But Christians are left wondering whether the papal encyclical will explain how the crucifixion of Christ redeemed the Sagittarian…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…stances, said Lydia Bean, a sociologist and executive director of Faith in Texas, which organizes churches for social justice. … Another obstacle for faith-based gun control activists is the intensity and homogeneity with which white evangelicals view guns. While the congregants in mainline Protestant churches are split on the issue, leading to fears of stoking intra-congregational conflict by raising it, evangelical churches have “sacralized” gun…

Party of Religious Liberty Botches Debate on Religion and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…asked by a Facebook user, Carla Hernandez, a student at the University of Texas. “If the Bible clearly states that we need to embrace those in need and not fear, how can we justify not accepting refugees?” Hernandez asked. Republicans will leap at the chance to tell you why the Bible supports banning same-sex marriage or abortion, but this was a duck and cover situation. Even though Hernandez directed her question to all the candidates, Blitzer p…

Scalia’s (Not Very Catholic, Right Wing) Originalism

By Patricia Miller

…Roe. Scalia was less nuanced about homosexuality. In the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision that struck down criminal sodomy and paved the way for legalization of same-sex marriage, he complained that the opinion was “the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionall…

History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope

By David Krueger

…ing the campaigns against the Karankawa Indians, Colonel John Moore of the Texas Rangers argued that the Indians’ cannibalism was “beyond question.” Although he had never observed the practice, and ethnographic accounts of the Karankawa show no evidence, Moore used the myth to justify the massacre of over 40 Karankawa in 1826. Christians have also been on the receiving end of accusations of savagery. While still an infant movement in imperial Rome…

Rubio’s Failure Reveals Dearth of Moderates in GOP

By Patricia Miller

…a bigger advocate of tearing the government down, and he won his state of Texas and almost 2.5 times the number of delegates. But just as Donald Trump has found his constituency among struggling, downscale white voters terrified that ISIS is going to show up on their front porch, Cruz has found his among the true believers, the homeschoolers and dominonists, the “constitutional” conservatives and cultural reactionaries. By contrast, Rubio’s natur…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…2007: I supported George W. I’m not exactly a liberal. But I know how that Texas thing works, who those oil folks are and what they wanted in Iraq. I’m a born-again Christian too, but the longer I live, the more afraid I get of some of these religious groups that have so much influence on the Republicans and want to tell us how to live our lives. Haggard also took up for Obama in 2012: I don’t think it makes much difference who the president is. I…

Evangelicals Getting on the Trump Train

By Paul Harvey

…cruise through many Deep South state primaries (excluding Cruz country in Texas and Oklahoma) couldn’t have happened without reaching into some portion of the white southern Christian vote; it just wasn’t mathematically possible otherwise. Whatever was the case when there were still candidates whose main appeal was to Christian conservatives, the electoral engagement clearly has begun, and soon threatens to submerge Russell Moore, Mitt Romney, an…