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Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…ys Mark was the first Internet age megachurch celebrity pastor and leading number one podcasts, number one sermon downloads, those kinds of things. So what that did is, elevated Mark to the stratosphere so quickly, whereas you might think…typically they may take 20-30 years of faithful ministry, but the Internet just propelled things with such rapidity, and the Internet only sees how you speak, that’s all the Internet is, it’s all about verbal art…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…edom Network, points out that Texas in the next 10 years could become like Kansas; in response to Kansas’ board of education’s decision in the late 90s to eliminate evolution from its standards, voters elected a pro-science board. In the next election, voters elected a creationist board and then back to a pro-science board. “It became like educational schizophrenia,” Quinn said, “where teachers didn’t know what to teach from year to year.” The ame…

Between Butker, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes TradCaths are Having a Moment — A Moment With Something to Tell us About Christian Nationalism

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…nal conservatism. Take Butker’s speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. It’s been lambasted by both the mainstream media as well as creators on social media for its misogyny and homophobia. Almost all of the media attention has focused on his comments about women, particularly the “diabolical lies” told to them about having career success when they should be most excited about “marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”…

Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3

By PRA Staff

…ldren with our tax dollars.” Amy Cawvey, a school board member in Lansing, Kansas, outlines her journey as a mother of three and active parent volunteer who decided to run for school board in fall 2020, outraged by “masking, CRT policies, gender ideology” and other decisions by her local school board. Cawvey and two other conservatives “ran on our values as conservatives, and we won…[and] now we have a majority.” With the imprimatur of the majorit…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…k. My original goal was born out of my experience in my church in Wichita, Kansas and the really clear need for more resources that were specifically tailored to a conservative and Evangelical Christian audience. Most of the resources I found were either from a theologically progressive or mainline standpoint but my target audience is different. In some cases, the arguments are pretty similar, but it other cases they need to be different—and it ma…

Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…nseling measures were introduced, and laws were enacted in seven states (Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma and South Dakota). The new laws in Arkansas, Georgia and Minnesota require that women be told that a fetus may be able to feel pain (and that they be offered the option of having anesthesia administered directly to the fetus), even though there is no scientific evidence to support this statement; these provisions are…

Finding Love—and Dogma—in Unexpected Places: Jeff Chu’s Gay Christian Odyssey

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…elps, leader of the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Chu’s odyssey taught him, he explains, to give everyone—even those he may deeply disagree with—the benefit of the doubt. But that very willingness to suspend judgement has invited strong criticisms of his book from both sides of the theological and ideological spectrum. Conservative magazine Christianity Today called the conclusion of his book a “diatribe that under…

Using Religion to Get Away With Murder?

By Sarah Posner

…his religious beliefs. From the New York Times: Mr. Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., told jurors that he had a growing sense of his own faith and opposition to abortion in the 1990s after watching “The 700 Club,” the evangelist Pat Robertson‘s television talk show. Mr. Roeder’s views on religion and abortion, he said, went “hand in hand.” The National Abortion Federation and American Civil Liberties Union have filed an amicus brief in the case, o…

Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

By Kathryn Joyce

…one such junk-car-blockade outside Dr. George Tiller’s clinic in Wichita, Kansas, a former staffer told Ms. magazine, “It was just chaos. The women would come in and they were traumatized.” Kathy Spillar, Executive Vice President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, says she watched Weslin play a central role in violent attacks against clinics. “Having led defense efforts on many occasions to protect clinics, patients, doctors and medical staff a…

Religious Right: God Should Kill Health Care Reform to Save America from Herod

By Sarah Posner

…ins, Republican Senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Sam Brownback of Kansas, Reps. Todd Akin (R-MO), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Randy Forbes (R-VA), and Mike McIntyre (D-NC); as well as Shirley and James Dobson; Bishop Harry Jackson, who recently led an unsuccessful crusade against gay marriage in the District of Columbia; and Pastor Jim Garlow, a leading proponent of California’s Proposition 8 who claimed last night the h…