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In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…mold of justices Antonin Scalia and the great Clarence Thomas;” create “a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias;” repeal the 1964 Johnson Amendment, which prohibits churches from endorsing political candidates; launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history;” direct the Department of Justice to “investigate every radical out of control prosecutor in America for their illegal racist-in-reverse enforcement o…

Mass Bible-Based Sexual Dysfunction as Root of Culture Wars? Frank Schaeffer Breaks It Down

By Frank Schaeffer

…ntators ignore at their peril. (Think of all the relevant news stories the New York Times has not covered—say the early rise of the religious right—just because somewhere back there the Times’ owners decided that religion wasn’t relevant any longer!) The fact that I worked on this book for two years flat out for 15-plus hours a day, and took it through 28 full drafts shows that (besides being nuts), I certainly have done my utmost such as it is to…

Christian Cults and Vampire Zombies: Stake Land is Scary and Smart

By Nick Street

…re many of the early scenes in Stake Land were shot) to film school at New York University. Unlike other young filmmakers, who often see the horror genre as a stepping stone to what they consider more serious work, Mickle’s ambition in Mulberry Street, his first feature, and now in Stake Land is to prove the horror-film’s value as a medium for old-school dramaturgy. “I see genre as a context for telling bigger stories,” he said. “That means connec…

Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption

By Chrissy Stroop

…datory and harmful adoption practices. Now, as Ruth Graham reports for The New York Times, Bethany takes the position that “Christians of mutual good faith can reasonably disagree on various doctrinal issues, about which Bethany does not maintain an organizational position.” This, of course, stops short of endorsing LGBTQ identities or same-sex marriage. Still, it’s a significant positive change, so it’s worth asking what motivated Bethany to take…

With Creation of Little Noticed Department, Pope Francis is Securing Liberal Reforms

By Cormac Shine

…r taste of the austere Benedict XVI’s difficult pontificate. An insightful New York Times article in November highlighted how easily Pope Francis’s gains could be reversed, detailing the race against time he faces to ensure that his vision for the Church survives his death or resignation, by appointing enough liberal cardinals to elect a successor with priorities close to his own. Seventy-seven of the 121 cardinals currently eligible to vote in th…

Southern Baptists Embrace Minorities, but Not Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…est position yet held by an African-American” in the denomination, the New York Times notes. Fred Luter Jr. pastors a largely black church in New Orleans and is apparently an “overwhelming favorite to be elected president at the assembly next year.” This is great news for the Southern Baptists, who have been predominantly, if not exclusively, white since the denomination’s founding. One might ask why it took the denomination 11 years after the apo…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…ception is a significant financial burden.” Lori’s piece was followed by a New York Times op-ed purportedly written by Constance Veit, the Little Sisters’ director of vocations, but which sounded an awful lot like the briefs filed by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on behalf of the order. The op-ed argues that requiring the sisters to notify the Department of Health and Human Services that it intends to opt-out of the contraceptive mandate,…

The ‘White Lie’ Connecting Trump’s Pardon of Arsonists, Immigration Fiasco, and Charlottesville

By Jonathan Russell

…Kelley has shown in the example of the destruction of public play areas in New York in the 1990s. As these performative moves reveal, America is a White space, and public spaces are sites of impromptu and systematic ritualized take-backs—land grabs writ small—because Whiteness is anti-public, anti-commons, and privatizing. Indeed, even these “public” spaces are stolen spaces, as is the case in the Malheur preserve, which sits on the Burns Paiute T…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…rian Christians over the last few election cycles aren’t enough to get The New York Times or The Atlantic to question the conflation of “Christian” with “good,” or to grasp that authoritarian Christians cannot be reached at scale by selectively quoting the Bible at them, I don’t know what will. I do, however, have a modest proposal that might help push our discourse about Christianity and power in a more honest direction were enough of us to get o…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…ious subjects with contempt. I asked one person for examples. He cited the New York Times’ excellent Laurie Goodstein. If that’s an example of “contempt” I hope this person never watches Bill Maher. But undercutting even reporters who profess to be religious appears to be a conservative pastime. Conservatives complain about mainstream coverage of their religion, but one thing you never hear, or don’t hear very much, is liberal religious people com…