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The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…n’ society harbors far-right extremists like Rogers who dream of committing acts of fascistic violence. But it’s the fact that the Republican Party embraces and elevates her, and others like her, that constitutes an acute danger to democracy.” Gorski puts it like this: “Today, the United States finds itself at a crossroads. To the left, lies multiracial democracy; to the right a “white Christian nation” or Herrenvolk “democracy.” It’s clear which…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ay deem relevant”. The East African Court of Justice ruled in favor of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS’ request to join as amicus a case being brought by the Human Rights Awareness & Promotion Forum against the Attorney General of Uganda seeking a ruling that the provisions of Uganda’s 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Act violate the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community. Australia: Catholic Church in free-speech battle; offic…

A Somewhat Cynical Take On The Future And Soul Of Evangelicalism

By Daniel Schultz

…ism Of Their Community!” Or, for short, “A Day That Ends In ‘Y’”. Oh Gosh, today ends in a y! And indeed, there is another installment, this time from The Washington Post: About 50 top leaders of major evangelical institutions will attend an invitation-only gathering this week to discuss the future and the “soul” of evangelicalism at a time when many of them are concerned their faith group has become tainted by its association with divisive politi…

Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’

By Christopher Douglas

…articles, one of which Bradley Onishi recently referenced here on RD, the United States is facing an epistemic crisis marked by a “tribal epistemology” in the form of the rise of an alternate conservative information-entertainment industry. Beginning in the 1990s with the rise of talk radio and Fox News, it now extends to propaganda organizations like Sinclair media, Breitbart, Infowars and others. This asymmetrical information polarization is mi…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…. The same elite establishment that Jesus condemned remains the real enemy today. Falwell Jr.’s need to make Carter acceptable to the Liberty crowd (who Carter joked was larger than Trump’s crowd the previous year) did not end there. Unlike his father, Falwell Jr. praised Carter for his 1976 Playboy interview because Carter was willing to follow the teachings of Jesus in Matthew 5:27-28: “You have heard it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Two Massacres and the Virtual Transformation of Trauma

By Shruti Devgan

…and 2012. I loathe to say this, but what if the 1984 massacre had happened today? Could the ruthless terror unleashed on innocent Sikhs have been curtailed before it became a trauma of magnifying proportions that the world continues to remain oblivious to? Could the effects of that trauma have been lessened? Even today it is only a handful of what sociologist Arlene Stein calls ‘memory-workers’ who are using the internet in defining 1984 as a trau…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…ly admitted that evolution poses challenges to Christian theology and have freely chosen to not ignore them or sweep them under the rug. They have a deep knowledge of Christian history and theology as well as evolutionary theory. And they have reconciled the two and find joy living and working on the boundary between them. These people are not uncommon. Many of them are parishoners in Catholic and mainline churches, many are teachers and professor…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…le respond to this appeal, saying, “Things are a lot better for gay people today than they were several years (or decades) ago. In time, our society (or churches) will come around on this issue.” To these friends and others, I must say, “It’s time.” For Lucas, Brown, Clementi, Walsh, and Chase the time is up. For these teens and the myriad other bisexual, transgender, lesbian and gay youth lost to suicide, the waiting game hasn’t worked so well. A…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…ghtmares. In somewhat the same way that climate change denialism functions today, the Atoms for Peace campaign merely divided public opinion, allowing some to sleep easy and the most knowledgeable people even more distraught and fearful. Events like the recent reactor meltdown in Northeastern Japan can bring even the sleepers back to the edge of anxiety, and then there’s the persistent fear that a nut job or a terrorist will decide to usher in apo…

Southern Baptists Embrace Minorities, but Not Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mosexuality didn’t stop the convention’s members from passing a resolution today to affirm the Defense of Marriage Act and “again call on the United States Congress to pass and the states to ratify a constitutional amendment defining marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman.” The convention also heard from Bob Stith, the denomination’s national strategist for gender issues and the representative of their Task Force on Ministry to Homo…