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Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…articles on the NAR published on Talk to Action between 2008 and 2011. One reliable academic book is The New Apostolic Reformation: A History of a Modern Charismatic Movement, published in 2016 by John Weaver. One thing to keep in mind is that “apostolic networks” aren’t just for apostles. Prophets are also sometimes included on apostolic councils or teams. Ahn explains in Modern-Day Apostles that “because of the importance of working with prophet…

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

By Frederick Clarkson

…ement in which he emphasized that the victims of these atrocities are “not numbers and statistics” but “my people.” “I ask the world,” he continued. “Open your eyes and your heart for the suffering of the people of South Kordofan, not only Christians, but my Muslim brothers and sisters who are facing the same.” He asked that the international community act to stop the bombing by the SAF; to protect civilians and the witnesses to the crimes describ…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ple. But Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson said on Friday, “We do not have any reliable information about any problems in this area.” The High Assembly of Islamic Theologians and Leaders of Public Opinion in Chechnya” released a resolution calling reports “an absolute lie and slander, discrediting the honor and dignity of Muslims, residents of Chechnya, Russian citizens.” The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which broke the story, says it has since fa…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…ent, and maybe it matters to you. McCain has noted several times that the “number one issue… that people should [use to] make a selection of the president of the United States [is] will this person carry on in the Judeo-Christian principle that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?” A person’s faith is, according to McCain, an “important part of our qualifications to lead.” Bracketing his dubious grasp of constitu…

So You Want to Write an Article Deflecting All Blame From Christianity: A Handy Guide

By Robert Repino

…h articles like Wehner’s. But here on Earth, being a devout Christian is a reliable indicator that a person has supported Trump at his most craven. Such people will be happy to tell you they did it because they’re Christian, because they’re doing the will of God, because there is a spiritual battle being waged at this very moment! This is what happens when the stakes are raised so high, and the reality checks are removed. If something can be said…

Dear Readers: Letter From an Anonymous Liberal Pastor in Trump Country

By Thomas Warming

…breathing radical right-wingers—in fact, very few of them are—but they are reliable Republican voters. The Sunday before Election Day, a member expressed a concern during the prayers: “For the first time ever,” he said, “we don’t have an ethical candidate for president.” My heart sank. They weren’t going to break against Trump. The right play with a situation like this isn’t to come in with guns blazing about the injustice of it all. A better call…

Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…Party heavily depends on that white Southern base as its largest and most reliable voting bloc, the association of the SBC with Republican politics will grow stronger. For these leaders, if heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie—with low taxes, fewer regulations, a decreased state involvement in public welfare and institutions, denial of coverage for women’s health concerns, and bitter attacks on the Obama administration launched from every available plat…

Final Thoughts on Religion and the DNC

By Sarah Posner

…secular Americans: Trivial bickering about who mentioned God a sufficient number of times, the fact of our warming planet being used as a punchline for derision, and leaders constantly citing Bronze Age mystical texts as a basis for acting on our very real problems. And at almost no point were nonreligious Americans mentioned or made to feel welcome in either party’s verbose orations. “Our nation, and our entire planet, face so many great challen…

Nevada Rejects Nihilism, California Rejects Euphoria, and Volatility Reigns

By Joanna Brooks

…19 campaign had virtually no war chest and no organized ground game. Ultra-reliable older voters, of course, drove the opposition to Proposition 19. But on the ground in California, Proposition 19 got a lot of otherwise reclusive “millenials” to the polls, providing perhaps a little insight into what motivates their enigmatic generation. After all, when you’re facing the bleakest economic conditions in memory and the systematic undoing of economic…

Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing

By Neil J. Young

…been a force for the oppressed and powerless as much as it has served as a reliable bloc for the GOP. To the extent that through the years some evangelicals have not identified as political conservatives, Mouw is right. As the historians David Swartz and Brantley Gasaway have shown, an evangelical left has existed since the mid-twentieth century, though it has never been more than a sliver of the larger conservative evangelical movement. The title…