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Inside the Evangelical Beliefs and Practices that Facilitate Abuse in Families like the Duggars’

By Caroline Matas

…ystem as a nesting set of umbrellas of protection, with God protecting and ruling over husbands, who protect and rule over wives, who (together with their husbands) protect and rule over their children. As the IBLP website details, a Godly wife realizes that “helping her husband fulfill his goals and dreams” should be her “main responsibility.” Even when a wife believes her husband is going down the wrong path, IBLP teaches, she must not “take ove…

Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption

By Chrissy Stroop

…s the result of outside pressure. “When the larger society threatens to disrupt the evangelical worldview,” Brandt once commented in a blog post on why she does not attempt to be a bridge builder within evangelicalism, “evangelicals either 1) cry persecution, defending their position as the divinely ordained one… or 2) they do what they do best: rebrand.” She adds, “It matters to evangelicals where ‘the world’ is at because of their particular dan…

As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…ormally certifying the Electoral College vote, a process already being obstructed by Cruz and some other Republican lawmakers. And, given that these pro-Trump terrorists carried not only American, Confederate, and Trump flags, but also explicitly Christian symbols along with signs and flags bearing anti-choice, QAnon, and right-wing Christian slogans like “The Children Cry Out for Justice” and the not-so-apolitical after all “Jesus 2020,” the rele…

Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…between meetings. Still, you harbor hope and interest. You are being breadcrumbed. Breadcrumbing is what the Vatican does to people whom it marginalizes. For example, at first a single nun, Natalie Becquart, was made a part of the Synod staff with voting privileges. That gave hope to many. Now, once they’re approved by Francis, at least 35 women (non-binary people are far from Vatican radar) will vote along with several hundred bishops. Again, mor…

Prophecy and Prosperity are Keys to Republican Christian Nationalism According to New Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…charismatic events in their churches, roughly the same number approve of Trump as disapprove of him. In other words, Christian nationalists are disproportionately charismatics, but not all charismatics are Christian nationalists. In fact, charismatic Christian nationalists make up only about one-quarter of all Republicans. That’s still disproportionate, but it’s not enough to explain MAGA by itself. So while going to church doesn’t appear to work…

Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o prepare yourselves for because we are absolutely living in the change of worlds.” Now, comes word of devastating landslides in the coffee growing areas of Uganda: Rivers of mud swamped houses, stores and at least one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250 still missing, officials and a survivor said Tuesday. Uganda is home to a growing evangelical Christian population. That influence ha…

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…rals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game.” If such headlines are true, which suggest that religious liberals themselves have contributed to their own lack of political efficacy in the public square, part of conservatism’s recent ascendancy can be explained by way of the religious left’s self-imposed ban from the public square. Far from being an aberration, recent conservative victories on the legislative level speak to an o…

New Report: More Sex in the Pulpit

By Jeanne Carstensen

…tion. The Institute’s Rachel Sabbath campaign to reduce maternal mortality worldwide is drawing a broad spectrum of support. But the road to consensus on other sexual justice issues, including reproductive rights, will be longer. While conservative clergy and politicians dig their heels in on birth control and abortion rights, it’s young women, and the poor, who suffer the most when they are denied safe, affordable methods to prevent unwanted preg…

Louisiana Students Must Choose: Religion or Science

By Lauri Lebo

…they feared crossing Jindal, who is closely allied the Louisiana Family Forum, the chief lobbyists of the bill. Until recently, the fight had been over how the wording will be implemented and to develop a review process to make sure those “supplemental materials” aren’t just intelligent design books like the latest version of Pandas and People, which the Dover school board famously accepted for that purpose in 2004. But the Louisiana Family Forum…

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking

…religiosity” to “God.” Beyond the higher education press, the blogosphere erupted with responses ranging from simple re-postings to a response entitled “atheism is freedom.” Not to be left out, the more traditional news media in the United States and beyond took up the topic as well; from Texas to India and back to New Hampshire, the notion that college major and religiosity are linked seemed to require attention. A lot of attention. Of course, al…