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Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…band was a working-class immigrant from Albania, so I learned a great deal about immigrant life. In my life and in my teaching politics at the university, I became a strong critical thinker about power. At the same time, I always wanted to stay a Mormon and fit in. I was able to do so in more diverse congregations, even after my husband and I divorced and I was a single woman with four little children in tow. I have had every intention of being a…

Transforming America’s Israel Lobby

By Dan Fleshler

…uslim—from finding a common language, a shared set of rhetorical protocols about how to talk about the conflict, and which topics to talk about. If American Jews who want to end one-sided diplomacy in the Middle East still censor what they say even among themselves, how can they expect America’s political elite to push for a different American approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict? How can they expect anyone in the executive branch to avoid antici…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…. Now, it is certain that the Christians living in ancient Ephesus thought about theatricality, and thought about it in light of the new religion they were embracing. And we know that early Christian wariness about theater was in part an anxiety about proximity (don’t be taken by those phantasmorgia, they’re ungodly—be taken by ours!). But this is all to assume a kind of binary logic for the public self—that we’re either being really ourselves or…

The Book David Barton Doesn’t Want You To Read

By Michael Coulter

…process, I approached a colleague, Michael Coulter, who teaches political science, about collaborating on the project. I should add that the material is inherently interesting, so it has not been difficult to dig deeply into these claims. It may seem unusual for a psychology professor to write a book like this, but given my background, it isn’t that odd. My dissertation included a review of the history of mental health financing, and teaching cla…

You Gotta Have Faith-Based Politics

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…by the Cold War or the politics of resentment. It need not apologize. It’s about everyone, not just white evangelicals. And not just about Jesus. Mr. Dubois obviously shares the president’s faith in community and his love of the narratives and worship style of the black churches. He is also very cheerful; he is not mad at anyone. We just all need to love one another and buy into the administration’s agenda. The law on faith-based hiring will likel…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…ras, and perhaps even stop the globe from spinning. One thing he was clear about, however, was that the ship would not be bashful about proving the existence of extraterrestrials, and they would allow no earthly force to stop them. Governments “don’t want it to be known,” Herb said. “Tough shit. It’s going to be known anyway.” +++ Predicting religious cataclysms is nothing new. In probably the best known American example, 19th century Baptist prea…

Witches, Fine… Does Sarah Palin Believe in Religious Tolerance?

By Lisa Webster

…loits in Kiambu, Kenya are chronicled. The Christian Science Monitor wrote about Muthee, back when the video came out, and what really stands out about that article now, when we have someone like Sarah Palin in the spotlight, (or in the headlights, a stunned moose) is that these spiritual warfare types believe that anyone who is not their kind of Christian can and must be ‘targeted’ for conversion. Through “spiritual warfare” and an in-depth resea…

How Christian Theology Created the Need to Assert that Black Lives Matter

By Beatrice Marovich

…in Christianity has also influenced patterns of racial reasoning in modern science, about race. And this is just one way in which these Christian views have been secularized. In other words, there’s a long history in Christianity of creating a dividing line between Christian and non-Christian that also serves as a racial line. The line between who is Christian and who isn’t doesn’t have to be a racial line, perhaps. But it often has been, and it o…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…rom their site. One Ohio state senator went so far as to lie to a reporter about even knowing about Project Blitz—despite being the state’s co-chair. The Project Blitz playbooks for the state legislative sessions of 2019-2020 (PDF) and 2020-21 (PDF) remained hidden—until now. They’ve added some new bills—including a dramatic attack on the integrity of public libraries—but the Dominionism-driven Christian nationalist agenda remains the same. The pl…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…g his big applause lines: his statement that stem cell research was “never about science,” but about “the secular left” using “science to justify desensitizing us” to the “sacredness of life as a gift of God.” Others included his proposal to issue executive orders within two hours of taking office to “abolish all White House czars;” reinstate the global gag rule, which would prohibit foreign NGOs receiving U.S. aid from discussing abortion with cl…