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70th National Prayer Breakfast Made ‘Cosmetic’ Changes, But Biden Delivered the Same Old Tone-Deaf ‘Unity’ Message

…ively, the NPB itself is now run by a legally distinct entity from the Family, and only the president, senators, and members of Congress are invited, with their respective plus-ones. A separate event, “the Gathering,” is held simultaneously at the nearby Washington Hilton. Those at the Gathering get access to some of the NPB’s programming, including the president’s speech, via video feed—and, while they may not gain unfettered access to the presid…

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‘He Gets Us’ and Sleazy ‘Swift Boat’ Ads Share a Central Figure — Further Evidence of a Right-Wing Bait-and-Switch

…campaign led to the rise of the term “swiftboating” to describe particularly ugly or flat-out false campaigns of political character assassination. As for the 2008 election cycle, Pinkston’s group, American Issues Project, crafted ads that implied Obama was soft on terrorism given his association with Bill Ayers, who was among the founders of the Weather Underground, a far-left revolutionary group that was behind some political bombings in the 19…

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Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors

…d as a valued iteration of sacred human partnership. Such ambiguity is deeply painful (and potentially even dangerous) for LGBTQ people and their loved ones, who might accept the invitation to a “welcoming” church only to be told that being transgender puts them outside of God’s design for human flourishing. But we do welcome LGBTQ people into our church, such churches might proclaim… as long as they’re receptive to the biblical truth that their l…

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2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think

…Right has shown previously that they are utterly pragmatic when it comes to choosing their new leader. If the base can’t be convinced by DeSantis, they will fall back into line behind Trump. Don’t let the spectacle of CPAC’s performative divisiveness fool you—the candidates present only a slightly different brand of authoritarianism or even fascism, but the core of their ideology is the same. Both are anti-democratic, pro-natalist, ethno-National…

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Catholic Groups Leading Mifepristone Ban Are Part of Century-Long Tradition Who See it as Patriotic Duty to Protect the Family

…likened to “Nazi Germany.” The language we see in Kacsmaryk’s ruling is only slightly more medicalized. Yes, he repeatedly refers to abortion providers as “abortionists,” medication abortions as “chemical abortions,” and patients as “post-abortive women.” But the medicalized opposition to abortion is now a bit more insidious, repurposing arguments that were once used by abortion providers under attack from both state legislators and vigilante ant…

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‘Pure White’ Examines the White Supremacist Origins of Evangelical Purity Culture

…that image. Already the question of White Christian nationalism looms really, really large. Why is this a national issue? Because this wasn’t just about getting more attention, this was about making a political statement. True Love Waits placed more than 200,000 purity pledges signed by teenagers on the National Mall in 1994. Image: LifeWay Christian Resources At the time, President Clinton was in office. In fact, during the event, some SBC [Sout…

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Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

…the whole thing. The Synod budget is minuscule if existent at all; apparently the Holy Spirit’s isn’t a union shop. The Synod texts, including the recently released Instrumentum Laboris or “working instrument,” read as if written by committees, which they were. The IL isn’t a working draft to be refined by the end of the process. That would grant issues like women’s ordination to the diaconate and presbyterate, and the full rights (not only the re…

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How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism — An Interview

…ed to do is to focus on their own piety, their own morality. And then, slowly but surely, they will have rights equal to that of White citizens. And so Hoover has this idea that African Americans are in the condition they’re in, not for sociological reasons or because of legal segregation. It’s because of their lack of morality. Can you help touch on some of the interactions between Martin Luther King Jr and J. Edgar Hoover? Absolutely. The FBI is…

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What Role Should Religion Play in the Public Square? — A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist Debate and Discuss

…to provide moral guidance” and that “Christians [ought to] be humble, morally aware (not morally arrogant) contributors to public well-being,” but he argues that “In authentically democratic spaces, a plethora of religious, spiritual, and ethical traditions should be welcomed into the public sphere to make their respective cases about their possible contributions to our collective well-being.” Is this possible in a nation whose population is overw…

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