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How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…g anything; they’re making assertions. What the assertions and attacks really amount to is that whites and especially white Christians are protecting themselves from the interrogation of a very troubling history, including the history we just talked about. And yes, this idea of protecting American innocence is really at the core of it. And you know there’s a great irony here. For a people who talk so much about sin and guilt, they simultaneously h…

As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

…y and to the Republican Party (and, within the Republican Party, particularly to those who report relying on far-right news sources). But these factors, which overlap considerably with the white evangelical demographic, look more like correlation than causation. Resistant populations, in other words, approach their distorted alternative media with the expectation that it will reinforce their pre-existing ideology. As many exvangelicals have been t…

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

By Bradley Onishi

…ays “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?” There’s a chance that in 2018 for many white evangelicals the abortion issue had become like water for fish. White evangelicals are concentrated in the South, where abortion laws tend to be strict and anti-abortion positions are a given among conservative candidates. When Trump w…

Latest Diatribe on Francis and Latin Mass in the Times Launders the History — and Troubling Elements — of the ‘Tradition’

By Matthew Gabriele

…—as of July 2021 (when Pope Francis issued his statement in opposition), only a bit under 4% of all American parishes offered it. This particular reaction to the reforms of Vatican II is, and has consistently been, a small, fringe movement. Second, the priest faced away from the congregation during the Latin Mass because the congregation was (and remains, honestly) irrelevant to its celebration. Regular Sunday attendance was never required, or eve…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…t there would be no reprisals and free access to the airport. With some truly unfortunate exceptions, this promise was largely met. Compare this to the last time the US lost a war and had to suddenly retreat during the fall of Saigon. During that memorable scramble in 1975, US diplomats had to evacuate the embassy via helicopters that landed on the roof as the North Vietnamese army tanks literally broke down the Embassy gates. The airport was out…

The New York Times Adds a ‘Kinder,’ ‘Gentler’ Anti-Gay Authoritarian Christian to its Roster

By Chrissy Stroop

…e same bigoted social politics? When you get right down to it, there’s really only one reason to be Anglican, as opposed to Episcopalian, in the United States, and that’s being well to the right of the mainline Episcopal Church, which is the main branch of the Anglican Communion in this country. Never mind that 57% of white—and the Episcopal Church is overwhelmingly white—non-evangelical Protestants voted for Trump in 2020, according to Pew. That…

A Love Letter to #Exvangelicals and Those Deconstructing Their Toxic Faith

By Andrew L. Seidel

…leave faith behind. But perhaps the biggest impact you can have is to simply live a visibly happy life free of toxic religion. To show others struggling with the conflict, and contradictions, and bigotry, and authoritarianism, and misogyny, and perversion of love and sex, that there is another way to live this life. Again, this will always be seen as a threat to those still in the faith because they see that a different life is possible. I recent…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…of Puerto Rico, my country of origin, and one of the five colonies currently inhabited by the US. CS: One of the unusual aspects of The Neutrality Trap that made it an engaging read was the direct engagement with your own experiences as scholars and activists The anecdotes and reflections drawn from your experiences at the end of each chapter also really made the abstract problems the book deals with come alive. Could you say a little bit about w…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

…they want it now. Lindsey Graham has been calling for this for years, openly, overtly and without shame—in 2015, notably, and 2017, but also in January of 2022. Graham is chomping at the bit to make wars and attacks against Muslims a war about religion—because all of it serves a particular end (even if, in some cases, cynical politicians are merely playing to the theological frameworks of constituents). The push by evangelical Christian leaders t…

Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3

By PRA Staff

…stian Right: while 50% of Americans claim to have a biblical worldview, “only 6% actually do.” In Barna’s words, “when somebody doesn’t embrace a biblically-based worldview, they’ll embrace a world-based worldview. And that will lead them astray.” (One can only surmise that a “world-based worldview” must be a very bad thing.) By asking survey respondents whether they have a biblical worldview, then independently determining whether each respondent…