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“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…eone to see it, for someone to look at something outside of themselves.” A San Francisco native who started out as a youth pastor to at-risk children, McBride now devotes much of his time to combating gun violence and police brutality in Oakland. Ferguson is a sort of mecca for the minister, the birthplace of a new way of resistance and the “most transformative” experience of his life. Before 2014, McBride was not an activist, he explained. He was…

The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…ld receive the Republican nomination. The group is connected to Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s plan for a large prayer rally in August. Kaylor emailed me yesterday, after reading my post on how Perry’s effort was reminiscent of Robison’s role in mobilizing conservative Christians in support of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and George W. Bush in 2000. Kaylor wrote, “You were correct to connect the news about Perry’s phone call with Robison’s effort in…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…50, about 75-80 percent of the total membership has lived in those states. Texas alone makes up almost 20 percent of the total.* And here the trouble begins. If you look at the rate of growth—not the total number of people joining, but the rate by which the church is growing—it tracks the rate of growth in the base states almost exactly. With such a large proportion of the membership in the base states, this is about what you’d expect. In recent y…

Are “Pro-Life” Hispanic Catholics the Democrats’ Future?

By Patricia Miller

…ng up the wrong tree with pro-choice candidates, especially in states like Texas with emerging Latino majorities, since “Latinos are not culturally liberal”: The way for Democrats to turn Texas purple is to nominate a pro-life candidate who is committed to economic policies that lift up the poor and the marginalized, in short, a Catholic candidate. As a group, Hispanics do tend to be more conservative on abortion than the general population; the 2…

Romney Braces for Perry Testosterone Challenge; Huntsman Reboots

By Joanna Brooks

…y, duty, and sentimentality, not that head-cowboy-of-the-apocalypse shtick Texas politicians seem to have perfected. Texas pols do, after all, hail from a state where people proudly hang chrome testicles from the rear bumpers of their pick-up trucks. Can a Texas prayer rally evaporate six years’ of nationwide on-the-ground campaign building? Can Mitt keep his awkward sense of humor in check and hold on to frontrunner status? If Texas Jesus does te…

Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…And others have just said no with no further comment, or didn’t respond to Texas on the Potomac’s inquiries. But here’s Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, according to Texas on the Potomac: “Houston is ‘just not on travel schedule’ and he has a family wedding that day, his office said.” That’s why? Really? Not one governor has had the guts to say anything about the impropriety of a sitting governor hosting a sectarian prayer event where conversion to…

Satanists Take Aim at School Spanking

By Joseph Laycock

…ses they’d received. On the issue of corporal punishment, Austin and rural Texas were two different worlds. Last week worlds collided when The Satanic Temple’s “Protect Children Project” erected a billboard in Springtown, Texas, featuring the organization’s goat-skull logo and the caption, “Never be hit in school again.” The billboard was reportedly torn down after just a single day. The website listed led to a form students could present to schoo…

In Convention Event Democrats Embrace the ‘Nones’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ext, when over 300 people turned up for the new Secular Caucus at the 2016 Texas Democratic Party Convention. As Levin says, “given the very limited marketing we were able to do preceding the event, there was really only one explanation—when Texas Democrats got their convention program and saw a Secular Caucus on the schedule, they made a beeline for it.” The momentum generated by this event led Levin, now the Co-Chair of the Democratic National C…

Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24

By Thomas Lecaque

…Trump vibes in Texas. As his campaign staff wrote, “It is undisputed that Texas is Trump Country after electing 37 Trump Endorsed Candidates and recent polling among Texas primary voters.” Indeed, Waco boasts the largest Baptist university in the world, which should come in handy as Trump will be forced to court religious support much more aggressively this time around. Waco is also home to the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame, which not only shares hi…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…AR-influenced education is Brandon Burden, a prominent NAR leader in North Texas and a 1996 graduate of Liardon’s SLBC. Burden, a NAR prophet deeply involved in school choice activism, is Lead Pastor at Kingdom Life Church in Frisco, Texas, which, via its association with a NAR network known as the Federation of Ministries and Churches International, is connected to Dutch Sheets, the “Stop the Steal” Trump loyalist. Burden recently rubbed shoulder…