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The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…llustrate the challenge of the National Conservative movement for the American Left. Catholic natural law requires an illiberal state. Until liberals become comfortable with an alternative conception of power, equally robust, but more fully grounded in an ethics of fairness and equality, it will remain difficult to meet the challenges from the Christian Right. In the meantime, First Things will continue to thrive within its niche as a rooted redou…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…rump, claiming that he’s the best candidate for women. Apocalyptic preaching isn’t new, and Bakker is appealing to a very particular subculture. Still, his long career points to a market for these messages, and his invocations of the 2016 election point to the way that political unease can offer a marketing opportunity. In 2016, Americans clearly feel a lot of confusion, uncertainty, anger, and fear about whatever lies ahead. For someone like Bakk…

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…rop words like Muslim registry or that there is a precedent for internment camps in American history. The news that the KKK has been dropping their newsletter off in neighborhoods within miles of my home. Here we all are thinking about the fact that self-proclaimed white nationalist figures are going to be part of the new presidential advisory team. In this moment, I wonder what kind of stories we, as anthropological storytellers, can tell? What k…

A Resurgence of “Ex-Gay Therapy” Under Trump/Pence? ABC News Report Offers a Platform to Hate Group Rep. Peter Sprigg

By Sunnivie Brydum

…l reasons; they work together to make arguments under the framework of current legal doctrine that LGBT people do not need protection from discrimination or equal marriage rights. But make no mistake, conversion therapy advocates cannot be separated from their supposed religious motivation, and the harm [they] inflict on LGBT people because of a belief that we are somehow inferior is a heinous moral wrong they must one day grapple with.” …

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…mple, alleviate the pervasive problems of homelessness or unaffordable medical care in the United States) and a predatory type of manipulation. Thankfully, the manipulation, at least, is obvious so we can take some comfort in how easy it is to see through. The “He Gets Us” campaign has “right-wing evangelical” written all over it. You heard it here first, folks. This new PR blitz for Jesus is going to be a flop, and American secularization will co…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…ptics lies in the tangible excitement of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim students at the new Claremont university. “I have a great desire to learn about others,” said Susan Goldberg, a rabbinical student at the Jewish Academy. “The learning … clarifies who I am and how I’m different and how we’re connected. It can only serve to make us better leaders.”…

New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…nd the wrong kind of Christians, as this report shows…. This is the choice we face as a nation: Christian nationalism or America? We cannot have both.”…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…onstruction, the civil rights movement and the contributions of women, African American and Hispanic people to our country.” So far so good. But here are the next two sentences: Examples of theories that distort historical events and are inconsistent with SBE-approved standards include the denial or minimization of the Holocaust, and the teaching of Critical Race Theory, meaning the theory that racism is not merely the product of prejudice, but th…

Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…es Smit. Spears’s story is something many evangelical and formerly evangelical women can relate to. Her story is, as youth pastor Kelly Edmiston points out, “paradigmatic for so many women who feel trapped by the controls of the society and church in which she inhabits.” Edmiston goes on: “Ever since we blamed Eve…for eating the forbidden fruit, we have been trying to control her; suspicious of her capacity to manage her own life.” When you strip…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to AP. The initiative will ask Slovaks “whether they agree that a marriage can be called only a union between a man and a woman, same-sex partners can’t adopt children, and that children wouldn’t have to attend school classes on sex education if their parents don’t agree with them.” Trinidad: Catholic Archbishop Tells Parents Not to Kick Out Gay Kids Trinidad Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris spoke last week at the opening of a shelter for childre…