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5 Most Important Quotes from Trump’s Evangelical Summit

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…with “tremendous reviews” and pro-life pedigrees: “We’re going to appoint great Supreme Court justices. And these will be Supreme Court justices that will be great intellects, that will be talented men in what they do (and women), but also be pro-life.” “I’m putting pro-life judges on. … The justices that I’ve put on, and you can look at their names and we have them posted, but the justices, I have gotten tremendous, rave reviews from the people…

“Jack” Willke, Pro-Life Demagogue Dies at 89

By Daniel Silliman

…onceive. In a 1999 article, he wrote for Life Issues Connector: There’s no greater emotional trauma that can be experienced by a woman than an assault rape. This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy. So what further percentage reduction in pregnancy will this cause? No one knows, but this factor certainly cuts this last figure by at least 50 percent and probably more …. So…

Exvangelical TikTokkers Aren’t a Sign of the End Times, But Here’s What Evangelicals Need to Understand About ‘The Falling Away’

By Blake Chastain

…ition of apostasy; I read Walvoord’s book Every Prophecy of the Bible with great zeal. I attended college with the goal of becoming a pastor, and read 1 John in Greek. His facile use of scripture to delegitimize my experience and that of untold others is insulting and dehumanizing. These claims of apostasy from powerful movement leaders like David Jeremiah are also not new. The boundaries of white evangelicalism’s spoken and unspoken orthodoxies a…

Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse

By Michael Schulson

…future. But who the hell knows? History is full of surprises. I don’t feel great about it. I wouldn’t have a kid. Because you’re immersed in all of these doomsday scenarios? Before I started writing this, I had a bunch of friends who had kids. A lot of them are very open to debate. And so we went out on a number of occasions and had two or three drinks and talked about the ethics of having a kid. There are legitimate questions to be asked, just at…

When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For

By Nelle Smith

…t seemed, quite literally, as if there were nothing solid under me, only a great vacuum in which to flail. I grabbed the door handle and stood there, dazed, for a long time. Eventually, I pulled myself together. But there was a chink in the armor. Every time a church leader talked about Adam and Eve or the creation of the earth, I thought about the broad swaths of time that came before humans, of the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, of the fragile…

What the Critics of the Mindfulness Trend Don’t Get

By Hollis Phelps

…ntal health to inner peace and personal transformation. All of that sounds great, of course, but the trend is not without its critics. One complaint is that mindfulness practices present to their privileged adherents watered-down, piecemeal versions of otherwise complex, situated beliefs and practices. Mindfulness, as it is often practiced, is, in other words, a more exotic form of mainstream self-help. If and when practitioners take the so-called…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…act, I would counsel it for some couples when their differences become too great, or in the instance of abuse, or when their bitterness toward one another begins to poison those around them. Often, it’s better to part than to remain in a soul-killing relationship. I do believe, however, that conservative religious people who preach against the evils of same-sex marriage have long needed to clean their own doorsteps before going off on gays and les…

Huckabee Says Obama is “Pretending to Be a Christian”

By Carlos Wilton

…own, supported by volunteers from a broad range of denominations—allowed a great many Americans to assume there is such a thing as generic Christianity, that can exist on its own like a bean planted in a schoolchild’s paper cup of topsoil. One becomes a Christian as a matter of individual choice, the act of a repentant heart. The next step is to shop one’s spiritual seedling around to various local churches, in search of the one with the best gard…

I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches

By Chrissy Stroop

…toxicity, now is the time to leave and to do so publicly, in protest. You don’t have to stop being a Christian if you’re not able to embrace atheism, agnosticism, or some other form of nonedom. You don’t have to stop going to church (there are great progressive churches out there!). But if your church said nothing about Charlottesville last Sunday, or defended Trump’s whataboutism, are you going to sit there in silent complicity? Please don’t. Tak…

Just Your Average Teenage Muslim (Shapeshifter) Girl From Jersey

By Saadia Faruqi

…crime fighting against the Taliban on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. So great choice Marvel, whether intentional or not. As a Pakistani from New Jersey (though that may make her even more Paki than the rest of us) she has a unique perspective on the current love-hate relationship between the two nations. With the U.S. desperately trying to sway public opinion in its favor—what with all those pesky drones killing innocent kids and grandmothers…