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Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

…ng the petition to repeal the new Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) in January. Neither the mayor nor City Attorney David Feldman were aware the subpoenas had been issued until yesterday. Both agree the original documents were overly broad. The city will move to narrow the scope during an upcoming court hearing. Feldman says the focus should be only on communications related to the HERO petition process. But on Twitter, Greg Scott, ADF’s vice…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…at’ to Polish identity.” Russia: Orthodox TV channel offers to buy one-way tickets to help gay people leave country Tsargrad TV, a channel affiliated with right-wing Russian Orthodox activists and modeled after Fox News, offered to pay for a one-way ticket overseas for gay people who want to emigrate. The channel was funded by Konstantin Maofeev, a billionaire known as “God’s oligarch” who dreams of Vladimir Putin becoming a Tsar. More from the BB…

GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident

By Annika Brockschmidt

…can work on rebuilding Albuquerque.” Pena was part of the insurrection on January 6th 2021. And, unsurprisingly, he’d turned up unannounced at the Democrats’ houses to argue that he’d actually won his election. Pena has since been charged with shooting at a home, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, conspiracy and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The case is already a disturbing one: A Republican congressional candidate paid four men…

New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…orter Julia Duin observed that few of her colleagues covered the events of January 5th, which she saw as “the most poisonous marriage of religion and politics I’ve seen in 40-plus years on the beat.” Charisma columnist Michael Brown* felt the matter was urgent. Writing in his January 2021 column, he called on the prophets who had predicted a Trump victory or cast doubt on the election results, to stop. “Face the facts, be accountable before God an…

The Missing Element in the Conversation on Christian Nationalism and Freedom: Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…idely distributed within the white population than may be evident from the numbers of currently identified white Christian nationalists, shocking as those numbers might be. Christian nationalism and settled ideas about white freedom have always danced together, of course. The formula “free, white, and 21” never needed the word “Christian”—it was implicit among those who used it. And here’s the point: deeply rooted notions about white freedom harde…

Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e, think back to the Christian Nationalist mob that swarmed the Capitol on January 6th. One of the primary promoters of the Big Lie and organizers of the rallies and marches leading up to the event was a group founded by Trump supporters who believed their god instructed them to form a group to march on our halls of power. They called the group the Jericho March, after the biblical battle of Jericho in which the biblical God commands the sack and…

Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ing action against you. This is what many of the QAnon participants in the January 6 uprising on the U.S. capital are now discovering. As of mid-November 2021 there were 650 cases being brought to the courts. Some have already resulted in sentences of multiple years in prison. Today, in fact, the “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, who famously ranted from the podium in the US Capitol Senate chambers, was sentenced to 41 months in prison. These court…

“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…for myself: the Krewe du Jieux. It was a warm, sunny afternoon, Saturday, January 19, and the streets of the French Quarter were teeming with day-drinkers long before that night’s parades lined up. Krewe du Vieux is one of the best loved and crudest of carnival season spectacles. The parade’s theme was “Krewe du Vieux Comes Early,” playing on the early date of Mardi Gras this year and the adult themes of many of the parade’s sub-krewes. One floa…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…Physicsworld.com user asks, “What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?” Where infinity merges with the earth When you dig into pi, you encounter questions that are as much theological as mathematical: is there a pattern to the universe? Or is it fundamentally random? And how do we reckon with the infinite? Some people have always insisted that there must be a pattern behind pi. If only h…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…e supremacist movements.” I catch up with the Rev. David Ostendorf by cell phone while he is waiting for a plane at an East Coast airport. He is the executive director of the CNC where Ward works. Ostendorf, A United Church of Christ minister, once led PrairieFire Rural Action, a group that tried to save family farms during a major agricultural economic crisis in the 1980s. “Back then we helped build a popular economic political movement among fam…