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Idiot Wind: Stephen Strang’s “God and Donald Trump” Aims to Justify Christian Support

By Gordon Haber

…ow, to some extent, we’re all guilty of rationalization—“I deserve another Moscow Mule; after all, it’s New Year’s”—but when we’re talking about Trump we’re pushing the limits of human unreason. I’m reminded of Bob Dylan’s Idiot Wind, in which he contends against a stupidity so massive it sweeps like the jet stream across the American continent, “from the Grand Coulee Dam / To the Capitol.” I came to these conclusions—and a feeling of astonished h…

Christian Nationalist Bestseller Rooted in Volk, Homeland, and Patriarchy is ‘Blood Relation’ of a Certain 20th Century German Manifesto

By Bradley Onishi

…ss. Canon is an imprint started by Doug Wilson, pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. Wilson is an authoritarian Christian who oversees a ministry empire that includes a nationwide network of churches, a nationwide network of Christian day schools, several publishing outlets, a seminary, and a myriad of media channels. In Southern Slavery as It Was, Wilson and his co-author argue that slavery provided a “genuine affection” among Black and Whit…

Russian Orthodox Church Supports Referendum on Sodomy Laws

By Chrissy Stroop

…m. Since that time, a major representative of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, has spoken out in favor of the idea of a referendum, using the same tactic and rhetorical strategy favored by US opponents of gay marriage who suggest that such matters should be decided by the people. Unlike the possibility of the state revoking parerental rights and removing the children of same-sex couples, however—a leg…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…n. The Muslim ummah will be weak and divided, though nearly uncountable in number. In the darkest hour, a Mahdi—a ‘rightly-guided’ descendant of Muhammad—will be identified at Mecca’s Great Mosque. He will rally Muslims against oppression without and within, but his success will provoke a bloodier counter-reaction, led by the ‘False Messiah,’ the anti-Christ. When even the Mahdi will be unable to turn the tide, then Jesus, Islam’s actual Messiah,…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…place of gay people and families in Catholicism. Boorstein reports that a number of pro-LGBT groups have been denied permission to have a booth in the exhibition hall at the World Meeting. Among them was Fortunate Families, a group for Catholic parents seeking equality for their LGBT children. Its president, Deb Word, and her husband run a safe house for LGBT youth in Memphis. The World Meeting’s director of programming, Mary Beth Yount, told Wor…

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

By Diana Butler Bass

…just that. And much of that pressure was directed toward Mike Johnson. The number of stories about Russian persecution of evangelicals appearing in the religion press increased. A good example of this can be found in The Baptist Press—their Ukraine coverage increased in its political content, urgency, and frequency beginning in the autumn of 2023 through this spring. And this trend slowly made its way into the mainstream, including this piece broa…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…with a few hit-and-run public measures. The gathering’s agenda jived with Moscow’s anti-Western propaganda, often centered within Eurasia on emphasizing the wariness of LGBT rights that Russia shares with former Soviet republics like Georgia. In a fiery denunciation, the WCF’s Georgian host, US-educated businessman Levan Vasadze, declared that the West owes Georgia an apology for foisting “sin and depravity” – a reference to LGBT rights – upon it…

Was it the Russians or God? Evangelical Leaders Working Out the Kinks with Trump’s Transition Picks

By Chrissy Stroop

…ave been a source of friction in Graham’s erstwhile cozy relationship with Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church. It is somewhat curious, therefore, that Graham is now willing to look the other way relative to Russian interference in the 2016 election, but the reasons are clear enough. Despite Perkins protesting too much over Tillerson, Trump’s transition gives every indication that hardline white evangelicals will get just about everything they…

The Enigmatic Role of Anti-Semitism in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

By Katherine Kelaidis

…s persistent claim that Ukraine has no distinct cultural identity and that Moscow is the sole and rightful heir of the Kievan Rus, Medvedev referred to Zelenskyy as “a man with certain ethnic roots” and suggested that Zelenskyy has concealed his Jewish identity to serve the interests of Ukrainian nationalists. Medvedev went even further and suggested that Zelenskyy’s “betrayal” of Russia made him akin to a Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners in Nazi…

Does God know if I cheat on a test in São Paulo?

By Michael Schulson

…Does the cher eezi know if you lie? Does the cher eezi know if you lie in Moscow? In all of these situations, even if the cher eezi knows, does it care? We might call this discipline theopsychology: what do I think about what the gods think? The researchers found that Tyvans attributed less knowledge about moral activities, and less concern about them, to their deities than the American Christian undergraduates did to theirs. But, although the Ty…