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In its Battle for ‘Life’ the Antiabortion Movement is Willing to Expose its Enemies to Death — And There’s an Old Christian Theology that Supports Them

By Beatrice Marovich

…esaving” politics. A new lawsuit, filed by five women against the state of Texas, illuminates the violence at the heart of abortion bans by asserting that the denial of abortion puts their lives in danger. Similarly, a recent piece from ProPublica clarifies how physicians in Tennessee have been forced to treat mothers as if they’re martyrs—potentially dying in order to birth their children—as a result of that state’s recent abortion ban. But it wo…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…takes you to the website of Christian Voter Guide, published by the Aledo, Texas-based Wallbuilders, a Dominionist, Christian nationalist organization founded by David Barton, and now run by his son Tim Barton. The school board races were the pilot project in a long-term campaign by the Truth and Liberty Coalition and its de facto training institute, nearby Charis Bible College, in Woodland Park, a suburb of Colorado Springs. As RD reported, the u…

Sexperiment: One Week Later

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ivide citizens of the United States. That linkage is deceptively simple in Texas. Being a Christian is supposed to matter, and it is supposed to matter inevery arena of one’s life. Christian belief is supposed to matter in forming how one views marriage, how one imagines fidelity, how one makes and keeps marital commitments, and finally, how one expresses such commitments sexually. Traditionally, the essence of the Christian difference had been th…

Perry’s God-Talk at Liberty University

By Sarah Posner

…llectual candidate, making light of flunking out of some of his classes at Texas A&M University, and instead casting his life and presidential aspirations in deeply spiritual terms. Perry said he spent many nights in his 20s pondering his purpose, “wondering what to do with this one life among the billions that were on the planet,” but that God’s answers were revealed to him in due time. No surprise on either count. Liberty University, after all,…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…r early teens to clean the rectory and mow the lawn.” The priest died in a Texas prison while awaiting trial. I want to highlight Graff’s time spent in New Mexico, as well as his work among Hispanic youth in West Texas, and the tragedy resulting from it, as evidence that race and colonialism are—at this juncture and at every juncture—essential to thinking about clerical sexual abuse in the United States. While the East Coast geography and white-et…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…d by the fake “Christianity News” YouTube video and the “Christianity News Texas” blog, which in turn were all reinforced by the doctored screenshots of CNN and Drudge Report headlines “reporting” Osteen’s announcement. The announcement even featured an attempt to discredit other sites to make the story seem more believable. It was the combination of all of these sites and sources, and the real news outlets that then picked the story up as newswor…

#Churchtoo: Apology of Evangelical Pastor Accused of Sexual Assault Shows Why Sorry Isn’t Enough

By Jessica Johnson

…place.” His story continues, “As a college student on staff at a church in Texas over 20 years ago, I regrettably had a sexual incident with a female high school senior in the church. I apologized and sought forgiveness from her, her parents, her discipleship group, the church staff, and the church leadership, who informed the congregation. In agreement with wise counsel, I took every step to respond in a biblical way. I resigned from ministry and…

Ponzi Schemes, Treason, and Cervixes

By Sarah Posner

…that the contribution was actually $30,000.] Perry raised $30 million, the Texas governor pointedly reminded Bachmann; $5,000 is chump change and not enough to turn his head. I read something more into that statement, though: he was trying to intimidate the little woman with his fundraising prowess. The other big fireworks was the Romney v. Perry showdown over whether Social Security should be called a “Ponzi scheme.” As I wrote this morning, it’s…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…mbers now in 44 states, including a trio in the heart of Wal-Mart Country: Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Perhaps more importantly, as Bobo noted, when Wal-Mart expanded outside of its rural Southern base—particularly into urban areas—it came into contact with different community values and religious cultures, with ministers like Pastor Edwin Jones of the Living Faith Baptist Church and International Ministries in Washington DC, who are already e…

Republicans To Get Free “Spiritual, Historical” Trips to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…to whether the Niemoller Foundation, a non-profit that had helped fund the Texas Restoration Project, which hosted Pastors Policy Briefings featuring Rick Perry when he ran for governor in 2006, had violated its tax exempt status. In 2011, Lane and the American Family Association were behind The Response, which started as Texas Governor Rick Perry’s prayer gathering in Reliant Stadium in Houston just before he declared his presidential bid, and co…