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Reactions to Biden’s Korean-American Secret Service Agent Expose Christian Nationalism’s Anti-Asian Side

…calized support for outspoken evangelical Mike Pompeo’s presidential bid in 2024, retweeted pro-Trump pastor Greg Locke, or coupled self-descriptions like “Catholic American” with warnings for immigrants to “assimilate and be productive” in their bios. Anti-Chinese mania is now central to Christian nationalism. Neither is poised to dissipate, despite the new president’s optimism that racist zealots like Pompeo, Sen. Josh Hawley, and Sen. Ted Cruz…

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‘Leaving is Never So Simple as Stepping Over a Line’ — A Conversation with the Author of ‘Rift,’ a New Memoir on Christian Patriarchy

…supremacy (though not always explicitly), and you have an environment that promotes large White families while diminishing the value of families of color. You read your way out of Christian patriarchy. Authors like Avi and Jane Austen gave you the idea that girls “don’t have to be good to be happy.” This resonates with me, having also used books as a North star. I often wonder if, even in the absence of feminist messages, there’s something inheren…

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The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

…color are we accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of being (or not being) today? Whether you consider her ‘Momala’ or ‘Copala,’ ‘QueenVP’ or ‘Homicidal Harris,’ one thing’s for certain: she’s Black. Or is she? One of the oldest critiques floating around the world wide web is that she is “Black when it’s convenient.” Similar to the birther craze that former President Barack Obama was subjected to before and during his presidency, Harris has Sherlo…

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Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’

…ith Parker. The energetic and prodigiously gifted Parker, still claimed by today’s Unitarians as a denominational demigod, was, back in January of 1843, actually chucked out by the Unitarians during a tight-lipped confrontation over teacups. His chief accuser was the exalted head of Harvard Divinity School, Andrews Norton. Parker considered himself “excommunicated” and went on to found his own 28th Congregational Society in Boston as a haven for f…

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New Research Suggests That Belief in Demons May Help Explain Christian Support of Trump

…that Trump’s enemies are possessed by demons, while the Trump campaign has promoted the idea of “prayer warriors” fighting the forces of Satan. Not surprisingly, many Christian leaders promised that the January 6 insurrection would be a reckoning with the “demonic influence” that “stole” the election of 2020, and there’s strong evidence that “figures within the Trump White House were strategizing with” the prayer warriors of the New Apostolic Refo…

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From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

…wn hands. ⚔️” Fellow far-right antisemite Mike Cernovic posted on Twitter: Today was a terrorist bomb detonated on our legal system. A September 11th level attack. Not one to sit this one out, Jesse Watters’ primetime Fox News predecessor, Tucker Carlson, meanwhile fanned the flames of political violence on Twitter, claiming that Democrats were planning to assassinate former President Trump, while also using the verdict to spread his racist anti-i…

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In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology

…. You have multiple sources in different countries supporting missionaries today. So the mission is funded in different ways, but the money behind it is really [given for] the training and equipping of pastors. All these huge conferences started to gather these global bodies together and gave them a sense of [being] one church. But what’s behind the modern global evangelical movement, which kind of started with the Lausanne movement in 1974, was t…

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It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals

…would lead to only 70% of white evangelicals to vote for the Republican in 2024 is pure folly. But, why is this the case? Despite the dozens of advocacy groups that have sprung up over the last few years to try and “peel off” white evangelicals, why have they, by and large, failed to move the needle in any significant way away from the GOP? The answer is simply that this group of voters are Republicans first, white people second, and evangelicals…

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Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

…nd them in the donor comments. Some of the comments mention Trump, who has promoted the occupation and attacked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau among others. And unsurprisingly, those comments contain violent rhetoric. One donor from Williamsburg, Virginia, writes (at times cryptically); “Trump won. F Hide Biden! F TruDope! All dictators & Traitors will get what they deserve. Praise the Lord.” Most of the others are some variation on “Trump won” or…

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A New Book Traces the Influence of Racism and Imperialism on White Christian Feminism

…mandate in the 1950s to their wholesale rejection of critical race theory today, White evangelicals across the decades have actively upheld White patriarchy at every turn. Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire Gale L. Kenny NYU Press Feb, 2024 Indeed, racism and imperialism are such endemic features of conservative Protestantism that, all too often, historians and political analysts alike mistakenly po…

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