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Hobby Lobby, Bill Gothard, and the Submission of Women

By Sarah Posner

…ff, Gothard has left his mark on many prominent evangelical figures, including the Duggars, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry….

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nization for Marriage; Mark Regnerus, sociology professor at University of Texas at Austin and author of deeply controversial report on same-sex parenting; Alan Sears, President of the right-wing legal group Alliance Defending Freedom; Ryan T. Anderson of The Heritage Foundation, who infamously sparred with gay marriage advocates and Piers Morgan on CNN; Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican; and…

The Racial Dimension of Trusting in Police Violence

By Eric C. Miller

…ich in turn informs her religiosity. And as with many other issues of partisan import, this one asks people to make a judgment about the nature of governmental power. Listening to conservative Christian friends defend Darren Wilson this week, I could only marvel at the unblinking trust they placed in a government agent—trust that seems to fly in the face of their otherwise skeptical view of government. Later, on Twitter, one popular user observed,…

The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism

By Lauren Sutton

…nd environmentalism in America. What surprised you during your research? A number of things. First of all, I thought that the chapter on New England environmentalism would be easy to write, because I assumed Emerson and Thoreau would be essential. And then I discovered that nobody was reading Emerson! So I began to realize that we read that back into the 19th century from the middle of the 20th century, especially when Thoreau became so popular in…

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…hind the AFA-sponsored prayer rallies The Response, first hosted by former Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2011, and most recently by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal last weekend. About his role in mobilizing evangelicals in the 2008 election, Lane told me, “why the left continues to attack public involvement by folks with faith in the public square is beyond comprehension to most people… What we’re doing is the mobilization of pastors and pews to re…

My Childhood Hobby Was Satanic, Or So They Told Me

By Joseph Laycock

…s Games? In the preface I’m very candid about my experiences growing up in Texas and being told that my favorite hobby is satanic. When grown-ups told me that playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) was going to drive me insane or cause me to worship the devil, it suddenly dawned on me that adults were fallible: They ran the schools, the churches, and the police, but they didn’t always think rationally or know what they were talking about. After that, I…

Graeme Wood on ISIS: No Such Thing as Objective Critique

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…presenting Fundamentalism: The Problem of the Repugnant Cultural Other,” Susan Harding has argued that the modernist narrative that erases the voices of those we call “fundamentalists” in turn reinscribes the fundamentalists in a strict binary opposition with modernity. She writes: Fundamentalists create themselves through their own cultural practices, but not exactly as they please. They are also constituted by modern discursive practices, an app…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…and contributes to the evangelical blog Mere Orthodoxy, “speaks for a good number of evangelicals who do want a new tone.” But, he added, “I don’t really think that despite the endless stories to this effect, I don’t think the evangelical bloc, to the extent it is a bloc, I don’t think it’s changed that much.” Evangelicals likewise remain divided on immigration. While some evangelical leaders have advocated for immigration reform, including a path…

The Battle for the Evangelical Vote

By Sarah Posner

…, which was behind Lane-inspired efforts like The Response (hosted by then-Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2011, and this year by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal). Horowitz reports that the AFA “pays him a retainer and provides him with legal and accounting assistance;” in return, AFA “gets its name on all of Mr. Lane’s events and adds to its database the contact information of all the pastors he organizes.” The AFA is known for its virulently anti-g…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…ested North Point Ministries, also in the Atlanta area. Gateway Church, in Texas, urged parishioners to post a selfie of themselves with someone they’d brought to church, as part of the #EasterYourSelfie campaign. At least one church actively discouraged selfies, though. 3) Hashtagging to Calvary One advantage of hashtags: you can string a series of tweets into a kind of narrative. For example, in the days leading up to Easter, Campus Crusade for…