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Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…cles and a fellow at the National Review, put it this way: “Conservatism in 2021 means radicalism. We have to think of ourselves as counterrevolutionaries or restorationists who are overthrowing the regime.” While Hochman’s approach is jarring, there’s nothing novel about it. In 1964, Barry Goldwater, the GOP nominee for president, proclaimed that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virt…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…act, white supremacists have adopted the term “lone wolf” and use it themselves to keep mainstream media from recognizing the “leaderless resistance” structure of the “white power” movement. Political journalists have to either educate themselves or refer to experts on the matter. This also applies when it comes to the question of how mainstream white nationalist narratives have become in today’s Republican Party, and the conservative movement in…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…ete accounting of Christian nationalism,” not only as present on January 6, 2021, but also with respect to “the events leading up to that day.” Though Anthea Butler, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, was unable to attend, her contribution to the report, which comes directly after the opening section outlining and defining Christian Nationalism, provides a historical overview of the role of white supremacy in the d…

Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning

By Frederick Clarkson

…rts in the movement. One such group called Church Voter Guides, launched in 2021 by former Colorado Springs megachurch Pastor Steve Holt, targeted some of the same school board races as the Truth and Liberty Coalition. In fact, they’re close allies. The Coalition issued a press release promoting the voter guides of both groups on October 5th, casting the election as “a referendum on parental rights.” The group insists, “It’s better to be biblicall…

America’s ‘Jesus Problem’ is Making Progressive Christians Complicit in Christian Supremacy

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…oying Our Nation and Our Faith Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. Beacon Press July 6, 2021 Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right Randall Balmer Eerdmans August 10, 2021 What they share is a full-fledged takedown of white American evangelical Christian culture as purveyors and accomplices to the normalization of racism, xenophobia, sexism, and homophobia within civil and religious discourse. Rejecting the origin myth of the religious right as m…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…control as quickly as the American-supported Afghan government collapsed in 2021. In both cases the critical issue was a withdrawal of support from tribal warlords and regional leaders in what had been tacit support. The Taliban is mindful that this could happen again. An indication that the Taliban leaders are taking a more prudent course is its approach to the US evacuations at the Kabul airport. They appear to have been in no mood to confront t…

‘Joel’s Army’ Is Already Here: The Obscure 20th Century Religious Movement That Profoundly Influences The Right’s Cosmic Battle

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…r and underappreciated inherent danger when people begin to think of themselves as gods. Chip Berlet in a 2014 article, warned us about the history of social movements and individuals who demonize scapegoats for their and society’s problems. They not only identify the target, but conveniently cast themselves—the demonizers—as the Good Guys—the ones who know what must be done. For decades, many Pentecostal and charismatic Christians have distorted,…

The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…stions.” Right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza claimed the police were involved in a cover-up. The most jarring reactions were those of Republicans who mocked Pelosi and the attack on her husband, like Republican gubernatorial candidate for Arizona, Kari Lake (who is, as of publication, losing by the thinnest of margins in an extremely close race), who quipped at a campaign event in Scottsdale: “Nancy Pelosi, well, she’s got protection when she’s…

‘Exporting Garbage to the Nations’: Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like Cracked Glass

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…w cracks appeared before and since the election in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which is located in the south central part of the state, on the Maryland border. The county is a microcosm of some significant trends towards deepening disunity in evangelicalism. There, Christian Reconstructionists who see themselves in the tradition of 20th century American theologian R.J. Rushdoony, have denounced the charismatic revivalists of the New Apostolic…

GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident

By Annika Brockschmidt

…Americans,” are under existential, mortal threat and need to defend themselves and to be defended against these enemies at any cost. The Right’s constant self-victimization allows them to present violence as a defense mechanism against a mortal enemy in league with evil forces out to destroy their “way of life”—or even out to end their lives altogether. White Christian nationalism creates a permission structure for violence, which becomes a defen…