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5 Lessons From an Ex-Gay Industry Defector

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d how through a series of events or internal experiences you now see the “truth”. […] I knew the expected pattern from the years I spent in the church prior to my public policy work. I don’t know if others embellished their stories or if they were encouraged to pad them to make them more convincing, either explicitly or implicitly. I do think we have goals when we speak to certain audiences, and fashion our stories to meet those goals, excluding s…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…ast, using quantitative analysis to track the underlying messages of their stories and their effects on consumers. Stories about Muslims that stoke fear or anger may sell ad time and increase hits, but media outlets committed to tolerance, religious freedom, and intellectual rigor must present a more balanced view of Islam and Muslims. U.S. citizens, whether liberal or conservative, should hold federal, state, and local law enforcement to account…

Oedipus Complexity: Is it Enough to Fire Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…ualized repentance and swift restoration, as recounted by some of the heartbreaking contributions to the #churchtoo discussion of sexual misconduct, were waived by many evangelical leaders in Trump’s case. Pope Benedict XVI had the power to forcibly retire gangsterish abuser Marcial Maciel to a “life of reserved prayer and penance,” but he couldn’t stop Maciel from living it out in a gated community in Florida. There is no acknowledged need for th…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…d in lived experiences. And it’s correct actions and practices—not correct words—that reveal true beliefs. Woodley argues that belief is over-emphasized in the Euro-American religious reality, where doctrine supersedes correct action or practice. It’s through this framework that dominant Christianity, especially conservative strands of it, has often condemned syncretism: anything outside the bounds of certain doctrine can be called out as heresy….

What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis

By Christopher Douglas

…gy, pro-choice activists, and the media.” Fundamentalist fiction, in other words, helps to tell stories about proper Christian understandings of gender and sexuality, politics, and the world of the spirit. This is apparent in a second article, by Maggi Kamitsuka, on evangelical romance fiction by Francine Rivers. In her bestselling novel The Atonement Child, a young woman faces the difficult choice of whether to terminate her pregnancy after rape—…

A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy

By Caroline Matas

…mmy Gilmore, sparking a wave of other women to step forward with their own stories of sexual abuse in the church. It would take until 2022 for Brown and her fellow agitators to see the SBC finally publish its formerly secret “database” of alleged abusers within the organization—a decision most likely spurred by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News’s bombshell 2019 investigation revealing over 700 victims of sexual abuse within the SB…

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

…e worldview that these groups have tried to construct from a hodgepodge of rumors, half-truths, and bold-faced lies. The book is rich in detail and delivered through classic nonfiction storytelling, a craft Neiwert has honed for many years. He first tracked this story as a newspaper reporter in Idaho chasing violent militants at Aryan Nations, then across the country at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and more recently, while reporting for Daily…

In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election

By Stephen Hinerman

…vilization-made-sacred, the church near the leader’s palace. Instead of a sword, Trump holds the Bible. Instead of looking to the sky, he looks into a camera. But the message, one that equates a book that contains the story of Jesus with military power, force and violence, is understood. Except, of course, while there’s a great deal of room for interpretation regarding Jesus and his teachings, it’s safe to say that Jesus’s story isn’t the story of…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…military life into our narratives. Second, to turn things around a bit, histories of war and the military are often written as if war were a completely areligious practice. We have occasional stories of exceptionally devout generals (or presidents) and aphorisms about atheists and foxholes, but few historians seem interested in weaving religion into narratives of American war-craft whether as a way of thinking about decisions to enter war and par…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…who encountered Baucham’s teachings at homeschool conferences and Vision Forum events, says, “I was woefully under prepared for the outside world. I was in my mid twenties without a driver’s license, education or job.” Cait West, who also was introduced to Baucham through homeschooling and Vision Forum, says his teachings made her feel she had to accept abuse at home, “because I was told God would reward me for suffering and submitting to my fathe…