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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…that opinion shifted as dramatically as he proposes, it’s also true that in 2021 more anti-abortion laws than ever before have been put forth in state legislatures. According to the Guttmacher Institute: More abortion restrictions—90—have already been enacted in 2021 than in any year since the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down in 1973. Many of these actions took place in the beginning of the year, despite the need for state legislatures to addr…

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Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…model bill makes an exception for the life of the mother (although it’s careful to define the medical circumstances for the exception). Gradualist legislation generally seeks to make abortions more difficult to obtain and to provide through such tactics as mandatory waiting periods, while the criminalization camp views gradualist approaches as “regulating murder.” (The NACL life of the mother exception notwithstanding, Rapert declares himself to b…

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Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…h, a term that means something that survives or endures, and in this case refers to the enduring online ISIS community. In one of a series of tweets from a teenager in Canada, he said that his parents found some of his messages and were trying to take his computer away, but that they would not be successful, he said. He had other ways to get on line. Besides, he confessed, he had no other friends than the ISIS baqiyah, the online community, and wi…

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Will God-Gaming Alter the Bible?

By Rachel Wagner

…GmbH is releasing the beta version of The Bible Online: Heroes, the first installment of a projected series of MMORTS (massively multiplayer online real-time strategy) “games” based on the Bible.  MMORTS games take place in a world that continues to exist and evolve even while any given player isn’t playing. According to the press release, there is an RPG (role-playing game) component too; players can expect to play as Abraham, and “as the leader…

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‘Exporting Garbage to the Nations’: Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like Cracked Glass

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…t Julie Green is doing! Her biggest prophecies failed! Trump will not be reinstated. Pelosi did not die before the midterms. Merrick Garland is still alive. Charles is King. Arizona did not decertify the 2020 elections and many more did not follow, Mastriano lost the PA Governor race!… This does nothing to edify the church. Please test the prophets. If they are wrong God does not speak through them. Please don’t get fooled.” To which, another pers…

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The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…ted a Faith and Fractured a Nation—by gesturing to the mere fact that a brief quotation from a mostly positive review I wrote for The Boston Globe in 2020 appears on the cover of the paperback edition that came out in June 2021. In my review, I called Jesus and John Wayne “a book that America needs now,” a statement I stand by, and the one that appears on the cover of the paperback—a choice made neither by myself nor by Du Mez. The “theobrogians”…

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Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…bjection to porn doesn’t stop people from watching. Given the high rate of online porn use documented in highly religious, conservative states, moral pressure may mean that people are watching porn yet feeling guilty for doing so. With easy online porn access, and concerns about its impact on sexuality and interpersonal relations, the issue has taken center stage in national and global public debates. In the United States, the question about wheth…

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“Dark” Skin No Longer a Curse in Online Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…receive a skin of blackness, and become a scourge to the Nephites.” * New online version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cut off from the presence of the Lord, are cursed, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.” A second changed chapter heading appears in Mormon, chapter 5: * Old version: “The Lamanites shall be a dark, filthy, and loathsome people. . .” * New online version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites will be scatt…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ressured DOJ officials to investigate his political opponents and back his efforts to stay in power after his 2020 defeat.[26] His loyalists want to ensure that any future Trump orders will be carried out unquestioningly. “What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them,” Vought says.[27] Conservative legal advocates have long pushed a “unitary executive theory” of presidential power, which holds that presidents have…

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