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Statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism Answers Few Questions But Exposes Growing Rifts in the Movement

…n in our time? The authors of the new statement may be concerned they’ve already lost the power struggle to the latter, and are therefore seeking to downplay the significance of the most powerful offices in the Church as they see it. Dominionism denial The signatories of the statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism assert, “WE REJECT the triumphalist, top-down, take-over of society as part of a so-called ‘dominion mandate,’ also noting that we do…

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Why is the Pope Popular Among Nones?

…. Fear of Catholics was so rampant that nativists in the 1800s regularly spread rumors that Catholic immigrants were going to install the pope as America’s leader in a coup, and in 1844 Catholic churches were burned and Catholics hunted down by mobs. Protestant army officers abused Irish Catholic soldiers so badly some defected to the Mexican side during the 1846 war (they were subsequently hanged), and the KKK unleashed verbal attacks on Catholic…

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Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

…rible complexity of Mormonism’s relationship to polygamy: how while it is true that Mormons today no longer plurally cohabitate, polygamy has never been eradicated from our doctrine, our scriptures, and even from current policy, and that this causes many Mormon women and men a great deal of worry and resentment. My description sounded jumbled alongside the clear and familiar official message: no, we do not practice polygamy, not at all. I felt sel…

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Merry Kitzmas! Marking An Evolutionary Victory

…a lot of people about the significance of evolution and how it got us here today. More importantly, it seems to have engaged the science education community to develop ways to address the teaching of evolution more directly. Today, evolution education has gained prominence with a host of new teaching programs. Certainly in the case of Dover, teachers in the school district there were timid about teaching the subject, fearing it would offend the Ch…

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The “Obamosque” Smears and the Money Fueling Them

Americans apparently believe President Obama is a Muslim. (A Pew poll out today shows that figure at 19%). Why do that many Americans believe that? Could it be the use of terms like “Obamosque?” Or this photograph on the Special Guests website? Today Special Guests is also promoting the special guest of Scott Wheeler, a long-time operative of right-wing smear campaigns against Democratic candidates and office-holders. Wheeler is the executive dir…

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Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — ‘The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy’

…d Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy J. Russell Hawkins Oxford University Press May, 2021 Stone, a hard-right, Trump-supporting minister from Georgia, had spearheaded the denunciation of critical race theory and intersectionality. Litton, meanwhile, was a winsome preacher from Alabama who recently had made racial reconciliation a centerpiece of his ministry. To some, the two candidates represented a referendum on…

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Presbyterians, Change Hearts & Minds, Begin Ordaining Gays

…eir mind about homosexuality—what they had been taught about the Bible—and shared their stories in these national ads and through social media,” Adee adds. Other organizers emphasize the “old school” nature of their work: the campaign’s success relied on person-to-person contact. Peterson says the Covenant Network group in Blackhawk Presbytery set a goal of calling every single commissioner, urging them to come to the meeting and in many cases, of…

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Pro-Life Rift in Ohio: Boon or Bust for Pro-Choice Movement?

…pro-choice advocates. Dr. Patrick Johnson, a key organizer with Personhood USA, writing on the conservative website WorldNetDaily: “The advocates of the Heartbeat Bill have proven their willingness to push one person out of the boat to try to save another. How? By way of the bill’s exceptions, its inappropriate penalties, and its counterfeit moral standard.” Phil Burress, a supporter of the Heartbeat Bill and member of the Ohio Pro Life Action exe…

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Anti-Choice Activists Look for Silver Lining in Personhood Defeat

…le. But perhaps the most interesting and multi-layered response comes from Americans United For Life president Charmaine Yoest. Americans United For Life has been a bit guarded about personhood measures—not backing them outright (according to the conservative Weekly Standard) but occasioning mostly-favorable editorials like this one. Yoest, like Mason, suggests that voters’ concerns implications of the legislation were unfounded and based on “half…

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Note to David Brat: Free Markets Are Not Calvinist

…ople who unabashedly call themselves Calvinists often tend to embrace free markets. But though Calvin’s thought might reasonably lend itself to well-regulated markets with genuine safety nets, I would defy these people to make a persuasive, coherent case for unfettered, Ayn-Rand-style, self-interested capitalism using Calvin’s own writings. The “next Calvin” that Dave Brat calls for in his 2011 article, “God and Advanced Mammon,” will indeed have…

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