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‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…zerrad believes that in a “feminized” America “the Left” is threatened by Trump’s virility: Trump is undeniably manly and for that he must be destroyed like all other manly men. He laments that the “defense of manliness” is too often the preserve of online influencers like Andrew Tate, when “it should be a bread and butter issue for the Right.” Finally, he claims that Christians “are the last large segment of society to still offer some opposition…

Alabama Gov. Claims Only Evangelicals are His Brothers and Sisters

By Matthew Bowman

…or and just gods that make up American civil religion—in American politics today? Bentley himself, despite his worldview, seemed to wonder. Standing behind a pulpit, he seemed to slip for a moment from politician to pastor; he, almost awkwardly, seemed to understand that there is in America today a difference but at the same time to believe that it was his responsibility to at that moment be both. His response to criticism sought to reassure with…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s to refuse to cover mammograms and “gynecological services,” according to New York magazine. If that version becomes law, the healthcare provisions in today’s executive order are effectively moot, since reproductive care will no longer be classified as routine healthcare to which all those insured are entitled. Not a License to Discriminate… Yet. Given the panicked press calls, protests, and harried mobilization of LGBT organizations and civil ri…

January 6 protester holds giant image of White Jesus in a Make America Great Again cap.

America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War

By Nilay Saiya

…istory. The dramatic drop in America’s democracy score coincided with the Trump administration’s systematic assault on democratic norms and institutions and the 2021 insurrection at the capitol. No longer is the United States the world’s oldest continuous democracy, according to Polity. Political science research has shown that anocracies are most likely to experience civil war in the first few years of their durations and that transitions into an…

Obama at Romero’s Tomb: The Politics of Liberation

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…I hope is the era of intervention and manipulation. The Central America of today is different from the one that saw Romero’s blood shed while saying mass. Some would argue that the crisis of gangs and drugs that is engulfing this region is leading to a crisis that will eclipse the civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s. And yet in spite of the growing violence, figures like Romero give us hope. As Romero prophetically stated, “I should tell you that, a…

Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill Reintroduced in Parliament Today

By Peter Montgomery

Warren Throckmorton and the Associated Press are reporting that Uganda’s infamous kill-the-gays bill has been reintroduced in Parliament. The bill stalled last year in the face of international pressure, including condemnation from the U.S. State Department, but its backers have never given up. The legislation and the violent anti-gay rhetoric promoted by its supporters have been part of a wave of anti-gay campaigns in Africa backed by American a…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…d terminological confusions. It’s also, for those who are keeping count, a New York Times bestseller. More plausible than the arguments of 6,000-year-old-earthers, and much slicker than the earlier, bumbling efforts of intelligent design-ers, creationism 3.0 has arrived. Two things about Darwin’s Doubt are misleading from the start. The first is the book’s billing as a study of the Cambrian explosion (which, for those who dozed off in paleontolog…

Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity

By Anthea Butler

…olicies. Billy Graham may have been “puffed up” by William Randolph Hearst newspaper reporters in his first crusade in Los Angeles, but the more important event in Graham’s ministry was his Washington, D.C. crusade in 1952. It was there that he would begin what was part of his lifelong work: fusing Christianity and Americanism together to create a potent cocktail of Evangelical Christian Nationalism. Graham was allowed to lead an Evangelistic Serv…

The Racist Message of Do-Nothing Religion, Courtesy of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick

By Kevin Healey

…eutenant Governor’s view. While he’s careful to condemn racism and police brutality, his words ring hollow against the backdrop of white evangelicalism, which historically has dismissed progressive black churches, or otherwise left-leaning churches, synagogues, and progressives of other religions, as illegitimate. Political, maybe, but not religious, and certainly not Christian in any meaningful sense of the word. What do we call a view that is pr…

What’s Wrong with Taming the Tongue? ‘Gossip’ and the Limits of Evangelical Abuse Prevention Efforts

By Chrissy Stroop

…r” to bother with the massive—and, I can’t help noting, phallic—plank that runs through their entire worldview, conveniently blocking abuse from their vision. To be sure, spreading unsubstantiated rumors, which is a pretty standard definition of gossip, can be harmful, and to be clear, no one is making a blanket endorsement of that activity. At the same time, it’s undoubtedly the case that most evangelical concern about “gossip” only functions to…