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The EPA and Evangelical (Anti)Environmentalism

By Aaron Weaver

…cal effort to address climate change — a testament to the effectiveness of evangelical anti-environmentalism. Now, evangelical anti-environmentalists like Beisner, Beeker and Cavanaugh face a much more formidable opponent in the EPA. And there is much at stake. For many years, Congress has demonstrated an inability to take action to combat climate change. The EPA has the power to take this important step to address the climate change crisis and in…

In ‘The Evangelical Mission to Spread The Gospel to Muslims’ a Journalist Tells a Global Story About Evangelical Missionaries and the Spread of Right-Wing Ideology

By Daniel Schultz

…perceptions of the world differ. In Latin America, there was a very strong evangelical Left that was born together with the Catholic Left in Brazil that was simply crushed. Billy Graham and leaders like him [vocally] supported military regimes in South America, the right-wing dictatorships. They related to the communists as the beast, as evil. Then after the fall of the Berlin Wall, communists were replaced by Muslims. If you remember, the first […

Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously

By Chrissy Stroop

…g keen observer of the Christian Right Sarah Posner, author of Unholy: Why Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump, on how evangelicals will minimize “Trump’s role in the Capitol attack… because many see him not just as an elected official but one anointed by God.” Looking to critical observers for comment when covering conservative, mostly white evangelicalism should be axiomatic, Journalism 101 stuff. Ideally, members of groups directl…

Have White Evangelicals Finally Lost Control of the Narrative?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ion understand the anti-democratic, anti-pluralist agendas sought by white evangelicals.” Evangelicals also understand the power of narrative, which is why they’re so concerned with controlling the stories the public hears not only about themselves, but also about those of us who leave evangelicalism and tell the truth about how it has harmed us, criticizing evangelical theology as well as the racism, misogyny, anti-LGBTQ animus, and culture-warri…

No, Trump’s Evangelical Support Isn’t Cracking: The ‘Independent’ Jumps the Shark

By Chrissy Stroop

…is conveniently free of data, which allows him to imply that “conventional evangelical pastors” and “typical evangelical organisations” are politically at odds with neo-charismatics. Geddis’s examples in fact illustrate the opposite; that is, that the neo-charismatics have been welcomed into the fold by today’s leading evangelical power brokers, such as First Baptist – Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress, which Geddis notably misspells as “Jeffers” thro…

The Evangelical Pluralism Problem and its Media Enablers

By Chrissy Stroop

…cal Road to Donald Trump, has been more forthright and steadfast than most evangelical critics of white evangelical support for Trump, and he’s also dug deeper into the problem. In his interview with DeVega, Fea starkly observed that evangelicals “have no model for pluralism. They cannot grasp any idea of a pluralistic society in which there are people who differ from them and question what American evangelicals believe.” I recently called for lib…

Sure, There’s No ‘Religious Left’… If You Ignore Non-White Christians and Non-Christians

By Daniel Schultz

…ecomes extremely important not to white out the diversity of the religious left. Who the religious left is may be more important than how it’s structured. The two largest slices of the religious pie in the Democratic coalition belong to the unaffiliated (24%) and non-white Christians (36%). In all, white Christians only make up about a third of all Democrats. Of course there are more bronies than Catholic socialists: there aren’t that many Catholi…

Mormons & Romney Presidency “Dangerous” According to Evangelical Author

By Joanna Brooks

…ns are theologically errant, weird, and unreliable. I have no quarrel with evangelical theology but I find evangelical Christians to be anti-pluralistic, mean, and arrogant. Can we ever get along? WS: Don’t put words in my mouth. I have tons of Mormon friends. I spent a lot of time in the West. I welcomed the Mormon Church’s involvement in Proposition 8. But the doctrine and worldview are flawed and dangerous, and they will ultimately derail Romne…

Why Beth Moore Walked It Back: This Election Season, It’s Tough Being an Evangelical Woman

By Kelsy Burke

…denying the existence of patriarchy, misogyny, or rape culture. (3) Evangelical women can agree with Moore and reject Trump’s candidacy. (4) Evangelical women can agree with Moore and choose Clinton as the preferable candidate. In my research on evangelical women, a lesson I have learned is they can simultaneously live in, observe, and critique what feminists call “the patriarchy,” without ever naming it as such. Instead, they can…

The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement

By Jonathan Dudley

…history can be told that is significantly less flattering. The right-wing evangelical movement was not an immediate backlash to Roe v. Wade. The evangelical community, unlike Roman Catholicism, showed little interest in combating abortion until almost 1980. As Jerry Falwell lamented in 1979, “The Roman Catholic Church for many years has stood virtually alone against abortion. I think it’s an indictment against the rest of us that we’ve allowed th…