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One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough

By Glenn Branch

…2022 marks a centenary which, although obscure, is worth celebrating: the defeat of Kentucky’s House Bill 191. Introduced in the Kentucky General Assembly on January 23, 1922, the bill would have prohibited “the teaching in public schools and other public institutions of learning, Darwinism, atheism, agnosticism or evolution as it pertains to the origin of man.” Offending instructors would have faced the prospect of a fine of between $50 and $5000…

George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook

By Patricia Miller

…John XXIII called this “new springtime” for the church, as Catholicism instead sees a winter—at least in the West. George Weigel, a senior fellow at the right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of Witness to Hope, the bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, gives us his answer to that question in his latest book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II. Despite his long history of conservative activism, Weigel attemp…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…y contextualize Johnson’s shocking past statements that continued to make headlines (despite his team’s frenzied efforts to scrub his digital footprint) with the little-known theological tradition that informs and influences it: Christian Reconstructionism, dominion theology—the dream of an American theocracy. Click on the image to learn more about Dominionism. Fortunately, scholars and journalists like Fred Clarkson, Sara Diamond, Julie Ingersoll…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…ild. While Dobson is well known as a right-wing commentator and community leader, many Americans are unaware of his long history as an author of advice books on the discipline of children. Nonetheless, he is one of the most influential parenting authors of all time. Since he first began writing in the early 1970s, his Christian-centered books on parenting have boasted millions of readers. Despite his central place as a parenting expert, Dobson is…