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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…evin McCarthy. Pelosi, his Democratic predecessor, had refused to do so, because McCarthy had joked that he wouldn’t be able to resist hitting her with it after she gave it to him. In December, Republicans made headlines by cruelly joking about the second attack in two years on Pelosi’s life, which left her 80-year-old husband with a head wound from being struck on the head by an intruder who believed in right-wing conspiracy theories. The attack…

Evangelical Healthcare Sharing Plan Catastrophically Fails — But Why Did So Many Join in the First Place?

By Chrissy Stroop

…political power that has allowed them to become a major factor in why Americans can’t have nice things, such as Medicare for all. But what draws right-wing, mostly evangelical Christians to these programs in the first place? I think it’s important to understand that draw, as well as the context that’s allowed the ministries to balloon in size since 2010 to the point that they collectively have about 1.5 million members, according to CT’s reporting…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es it touch third-rail topics like same-sex marriage.” The book, he says, “calls on the Catholic Church to be more respectful and compassionate toward gay people.” Among those with positive things to say about Martin’s book is Cardinal Kevin Farrell, picked by Francis to lead the Vatican office on laity, family and life issues. Gibson says the fact that the book has won praise from senior church leaders “is extraordinary and another sign of how Fr…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…hin InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, one of the nation’s largest evangelical campus ministries. While Johnson believes that folks in her circles “didn’t necessarily vote for Trump,” they are part of a larger culture that made widespread white evangelical support for Trump possible. By staying in this environment, she hopes to attack one of the root causes of this problem: “An impoverished theology where people don’t understand a ‘God of the oppr…

“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…of California Los Angeles, Kendall has spent the better part of the past decade vocally opposing conversion therapy, and joining with state and congressional leaders who have sought to outlaw the harmful practice on minors. “Someone’s death is always a tragedy for those who loved them, and I do not intend for his friends and family to read my words,” Kendall told RD. He continued: I am struggling with Nicolosi’s death for the simple reason that he…

Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

By Daniel Schultz

…narrative ignores the changing culture and the reality that a not-insignificant number of Democratic voters aren’t affiliated with any particular faith. It’s as if it were 1954, and liberals were smarting over getting flanked by Ike on the In God We Trust issue. There’s a reason Schlitz Gusto is a niche brew, people. Tastes change, and so do politics. There are subtler issues as well. As I said above, the hook here isn’t bad. When I lived in this…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…and invisible organization, he sets out to unravel the whole knot of American political fundamentalism. Sharlet, who has since become one of the best journalists covering American religion today (and a columnist for Religion Dispatches), got a remarkable scoop some years back. An acquaintance invited him into Ivanwald, the community in Arlington, Virginia, that exposed him to a network of which few outsiders are aware. He calls it “The Family,” t…

It’s the Year of the Protester: Would Santa Occupy? How About Mother Teresa?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hile, were an independent group that joined up (some would say opportunistically) with the Donatist cause, but took it, shall we say, in new directions. If the Donatists especially admired martyrdom, the Circumcellions loooooved martyrdom. So much so, that they would try to invite martyrdom by being complete dingleheads—attacking people on the road with sticks they called “Israelites”—and hoping someone would kill them for it. If that didn’t work…

Why The Advocate‘s Choice of Pope Francis for Person of the Year is a Mistake

By Anthea Butler

…stead of pushing dogma, he’s pushing a change in tone, not in substance. Because he is carefully eliding the church’s teaching and focusing on compassion, many liberals and media pundits—including The Advocate—believe that he is opening a door to a changed theology. That is not the case. What the Pope is doing is opening a door for discussion, but not necessarily change. The group Kairos of Florence, a group of LGBT Catholics, wrote to Pope Franci…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…consistent with his idea that what children need is a “Think for Yourself Academy.” Can he really mean this? Does he really think that any child can stand above the fray of competing worldviews and let reason eliminate all but the best, like a cautious consumer? And really, why not an atheist school? As Chris Mooney wrote over at Science Progress in response to the same Times profile: “Dawkins really, really, really thinks he’s right about things….