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The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…teenage evangelical boys who’ve wrestled with doubt, and he’s the atheist crusaders’ most feared enemy. He’s also a gifted organizer [who is helping to hatch] an ingenious plan to transform the map of academic philosophy. Inside particular subcultures of evangelical atheists and evangelical Christians, he’s a huge celebrity; but outside them, he’s almost completely unknown. That may change soon. How does religion inform (or not inform) your intere…

Glenn Beck’s Salvation Army

By Peter Montgomery

…n had indeed restored its honor. The prayer Lee cited had been composed by New York state officials to be read in public school classrooms at the start of the school day. Lee said the prayer “is not an establishment of any particular religion, but an acknowledgment of a truth, and a debt we owe God.” The Supreme Court, with only a single dissenting vote, disagreed. The Court’s decision appealed to the same founders that Beck and Barton are claimin…

In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…ch that—while reported by RNS, the Guardian, the Associated Press, and the New York Times—caused less of a public stir. Trump’s remarks expose how a vision of White Christian nationalism is integral to his MAGA appeal, and they reveal the threat this vision poses to a pluralistic democracy. The venue for this early campaign stop was, significantly, the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) in Nashville on February 22nd. While…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…But apparently they aren’t finding it. At least that’s what I read in the New York Times. They’ve got a political analyst named Matt Bai who really understands these deeper motives. Listen to what he’s written lately: “Voters in a lot of the country trusted in an established order that seemed to be working pretty well for them, but then people saw their cities and their industries collapse… With global interdependence comes a certain lack of cont…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

This week Rep. Peter King of New York alleged that “over 80 percent of the mosques in this country are controlled by radical Imams,” based on a remark made 12 years ago by neoconservative-friendly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In th…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…ebruary rally that “we should be concerned . . . when politics is more a struggle over money and manipulation than a struggle over ideas. Politicians want us to be slaves to their decisions without citizens having the ability to register their discontent at the ballot box.” There is something particularly populist in the water this year, isn’t there? Add a few boasts and Barber’s words could almost have been delivered by you-know-who. But as the a…

Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?

By Caroline Matas

…exas governor Rick Perry, former mayor of Indianapolis and deputy mayor of New York City Stephen Goldsmith, and current U.S. Representative Daniel Webster (R-FL). Past members of the IBLP’s Board of Directors and Advisory Board include billionaire and part-owner of the San Antonio Spurs James Leininger, former Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX), and Georgia State Senator Ralph T. Hudgens. Gothard’s foundational beliefs—the eponymous “basic life princi…

Christian Cults and Vampire Zombies: Stake Land is Scary and Smart

By Nick Street

…(where many of the early scenes in Stake Land were shot) to film school at New York University. Unlike other young filmmakers, who often see the horror genre as a stepping stone to what they consider more serious work, Mickle’s ambition in Mulberry Street, his first feature, and now in Stake Land is to prove the horror-film’s value as a medium for old-school dramaturgy. “I see genre as a context for telling bigger stories,” he said. “That means co…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…ception is a significant financial burden.” Lori’s piece was followed by a New York Times op-ed purportedly written by Constance Veit, the Little Sisters’ director of vocations, but which sounded an awful lot like the briefs filed by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on behalf of the order. The op-ed argues that requiring the sisters to notify the Department of Health and Human Services that it intends to opt-out of the contraceptive mandate,…

PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About

By Daniel Schultz

…mographics in the country. I mean, that’s real, not just in California and New York; it’s real in Nebraska and Kansas and Illinois. It’s perhaps no coincidence that the latest kerfuffle we have over these ridiculous completely fabricated claims about immigrants eating pets comes out of Ohio. That’s not a story coming out of Texas. One of the oldest questions we have on this subject is about what to do with immigrants who are here in the country wi…