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There is Another Reason Trump Refuses to Concede the Election

By Chad Bauman

…evaporating into the ether last Wednesday, White-Cain broadcasted a prayer service in which she spoke in tongues, called on God to discharge angels from Africa to aid the president’s reelection, and rap-prophesied that she could hear “victory, victory, victory, victory in the quarters of heaven.” What was she doing? Exercising positive confession on behalf of the president and the large percentage of conservative Christians who support him. (When…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…or, or to Senator Tom Cotton urging the military be deployed against Black American protesters—these all enact, even if not explicitly, the permissibility of oppression in the environment in which they’re spoken. The perlocutionary effect of Trump’s racist speech act—that is, the attendant huge spike in white supremacist hate crimes— never mind the storming of the Capitol, should make this clear. And again, conversations are asymmetrically pliable…

No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

…turday Night Live, as well as through television and print news. He blamed American news stations, for example, for their biased coverage of the Vietnam War, for “twisting” news reports “to make America appear the aggressor” and causing young people to become disillusioned with their own country. He also took aim at Time and Newsweek, instead recommending conservative magazines such as Human Events and Conservative Digest, and he called for a four…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…nservative media. There’s a double forgetting at play: a forgetting of the American tradition of violent White Supremacy and a forgetting of—as historian Kellie Carter Jackson argues—the long tradition of Black violence in the service of freedom (i.e., emancipation). Instead what gets remembered in our society is imaginary violence that victimizes innocent whites. This stuff matters! When it’s the norm that White Supremacy gets to excuse itself fr…

The Three Qualities Marking the Capitol Assault as Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…nd the National Guard came to the Capitol with smoke bombs and strength in numbers, the drama was over. The actors—many of whom seemed appropriately costumed for militant theater—meekly left the stage. It’s a frequent characteristic of terrorist acts to choose a time and place of significance. Timothy McVeigh chose a date with various meanings, including the execution date of the leader of a Christian militant group with which McVeigh had some ass…

Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation

By Isaiah Murtaugh

…ified.” Ramirez says these sorts of calls for revival are a normal part of American history: “Since the Revolution, American Christians have believed that this is a special Christian nation. Revival happened if the population was getting too irreligious. Symbolically, today, Christianity has lost its hegemony [in America]. It’s classic for American Christians to say ‘Now we need a revival,’ in an effort to purify the nation so it can have that spe…

For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different

By Lynne Gerber

…rightward turn is the way that AIDS and Covid revealed the often implicit American political calculation of whose lives are valued. The contrast between the anti-gay backlash in the first years of AIDS and the backlash against people of color evident in both epidemics is “helping me to understand that the original lie of America is this white superiority and all the kinds of supremacy that allows some people to think that other people don’t matte…

The University of Vermont Might Be Done With Religion, But Religion Isn’t Done With Us

By Megan Goodwin

…has taught us anything, it’s that people need to know more about religion. Americans certainly do. Public schools in the U.S. don’t offer religious literacy courses, which means most Americans are shockingly ignorant about religion. Even if we weren’t dumb bunnies (as my ninth grade algebra teacher Sister Gertrude would have said), the U.S. Constitution enshrines specific protections for religion that it does not afford any other subject in, say,…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…t out is what you will get back. So, the golden rule may still receive lip service, but it is too expensive to practice, according to the rich nations of the world. What about reparations or repentance? Karmic thinking alerts us that it is too expensive not to practice repentance and repair. Everything is connected COP21 is a success. It was more than we could have expected—and the Pope’s moral frame prevailed. The moral issue is the connection be…

Christianity Today’s ‘Humble’ Hindu-to-Jesus Conversion Story is Still a Story of Christian Triumphalism

By Murali Balaji

…ed to his next question: would I like to go to a non-denominational church service after the game? When I politely told him I was a Hindu and not interested, he left me—in mid-set—and walked away. The weights fell on my chest, and as I felt the oxygen leave my body, I turned the barbell enough to ask for help. A person nearby came over to help lift the weights off. That memory resurfaced when I read Kamesh Sankaran’s “The Humbling of a Proud Hindu…