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Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…r Lindevaldsen responded to RD’s requests for comment, but Staver told the New York Times last month that they had not had contact with Miller since 2009 and had always advised her to obey the law. Staver and Lindevaldsen did, however, teach their students that “civil disobedience” was a proper response, and persisted in their efforts to reverse court orders with relentless appeals claiming that court orders were in contravention of Miller’s Chris…

Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…an King Cyrus, who freed Jewish prisoners and helped build the temple in Jerusalem. This provided evangelicals with a remarkable escape hatch from the political and moral norms that previously governed most evangelical engagement in public life. These two elements also animate the NAR’s activities internationally. ‘It’s a 7M world’ In his book, God’s Chaos Code, 7 Mountains strategist and thought leader Lance Wallnau, who also serves as a Teacher…

Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…tion.” That’s the year Republican nominee Ronald Reagan’s “great national crusade to make America great again” took the country by storm, and the Christian nationalist evangelical Right became an entrenched Republican constituency, transforming American politics in ways that are still playing out. But somehow, in just a few short weeks, Republicans have gone from being “real Americans” to being obnoxious “weirdos,” and Democrats have gone from bei…

Tea Party, Circa 1930s: A Response to Michael Kazin

By Diane Winston

…worker initiatives, and the right’s focus shifted from the New Deal to the New World Order. Conservative organizations still roiled local waters. In the 1950s, populist movements fought secular humanism in California’s public schools, and in the 1960s, millions mobilized around Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. By the late 1970s, strong grassroots groups in California, the Ozarks, the Midwest, and the South came together in the New Right/Ch…

‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

…half of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population lives in just four cities: Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Ashdod and Elad. We’re well aware of the self-sorting in the United States in recent decades, a phenomenon that has itself sharpened identities (along with identity politics) and curved geographies in on themselves. Let’s call this turning-inward a version of hyperlocalism, the politics of which produce and reinforce affinities—not with contiguous neighb…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…– a reference to LGBT rights – upon it. Israel: Prime Minister addresses Jerusalem pride, but is criticized for lack of action on ‘LGBT problem’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke via video to the record-breaking Jerusalem pride parade, declaring, “We are all Israelis, we are all citizens of the state, we are one people.” Writing in Matzav blog, Eli Kowaz welcomes Netanyahu’s words but challenges his actions in failing to defend LGBT rights….

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…as part of the defense of Christian Segregation in the South after Reconstruction and even, sometimes, into the 1960s. It was used by Jerry Falwell to argue for the Biblical basis of segregation, and against the Civil Rights Movement, before he began politically organizing evangelicals in the 1970s. With some exceptions, like the Schaeffers, many of the leaders of the emergent Christian Right had a heritage in the theological tradition of Christi…

Washington Post Story Gets Christian Reconstructionism Wrong

By Julie Ingersoll

…e homeschooling curriculum still in use today. Gardner is also wrong about Rushdoony’s politics. He never tried to start a political party. He insisted that the primary goals of the movement were not political (by which he meant concerned with civil government). He did advocate theocracy, by which he meant that civil rulers derive their authority from God and are obligated to follow biblical law. Angle has embraced this view. “Dried up?” Absolutel…

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…together UFOs, Atlantis, and antisemitism. The Manichaean understanding of world politics and history as determined by a battle between the forces of good and evil, mostly obscured from public view, is also important. DePape’s posts link the Jesuits to the Illuminati and the dark cabal, a secret group of Jews who manipulate world events for their own gain. Believers see the fingerprints of this shadowy group on all major world events. DePape menti…

The Ordinary Jesus: An Excerpt from Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

By James Carroll

…te, the most ordinary person bringing Christ once more to life—day by day, word by word, bread by bread, cup by cup. In all of that we see divinity, which, paradoxically, is what makes Jesus one of us. Whatever sort of God Jesus is understood to be, it must be the God who is like humans, not different. If that seems impossible, then what we think of God—and of humans— must change. This is essential to the New Testament and “the very logic of Chris…