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

By Frederick Clarkson

…e, in Woodland Park, a suburb of Colorado Springs. As RD reported, the unaccredited school teaches its students how to conquer the “7 Mountains” of society (government, religion, family, education, media, arts & entertainment, and business) in order to achieve Christian Dominion. This theology and its praxis is known as Seven Mountains Dominionism, 7M for short, and its political conferences are open to a wider community of like-minded Christians….

The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…chool—pre-MLK holiday—teachers instructed us to make handmade MLK birthday cards noting how old King would have been were he still alive. I also remember the push to make the King holiday a federal holiday. Listening to Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” on the radio singing along with the chorus, “Happy Birthday to you.” Then in 1983, with Ronald Reagan’s signature (it had passed both houses of congress with veto-proof majorities) MLK’s birthday ha…

Bans on Gender Affirming Care for Youth Reveal Purity Culture Is More Than Just an Evangelical Problem

By M. Cooper Minister

…but that will remain the case as long as we continue, from bathrooms to ID cards, to organize ourselves around the gender binary. Writing for Type Investigations, Sarah Posner argues that bills banning medical care to trans youth are rooted in what she calls “baseless distortions of science and medicine.” Citing the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Americ…

Both the Joy and the Uproar Over the Pope’s Blessings for LGBTQ Catholics are Small Potatoes Compared to this Age-Old Church Problem

By Mary E. Hunt

…del. Third, Pope Francis, for all his pastoral intent, still holds all the cards. The way the blessing document was rolled out was dubious. A would-be synodal pope ruling by fiat does not make a pretty headline. No wonder the press focused on same-sex blessings despite the fact that the Declaration really represents the reinforcement of the power structure status quo. The current papal way of operating tempts even well intended progressive people…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…ment she’s referring to was her time served in 2016 for obtaining identity cards outside the legal realm in order to remain in Pakistan with her family, including her children, two of whom have died. While her life and her stories of love and loss speak volumes on the multi-faceted lives of Afghans and women especially, her portrait only speaks a thousand words of media myopia, military arrogance, and cultural illiteracy. McCurry may have taken Sh…

‘Pure White’ Examines the White Supremacist Origins of Evangelical Purity Culture

By Emma Cieslik

…secular press. The harm it inflicts on White women has been explored by a number of scholars and survivors in books (both popular and scholarly), on TV, in movies, and elsewhere. But one aspect of purity culture that remains largely unexamined is the way that it’s woven into many of our national myths about a pure White race—myths that have fed White supremacy in the nation’s past and continue to do so today. Sara Moslener, who’s been studying ev…

The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…ound us, conference attendees continue to sip cocktails, exchange business cards and discuss their own fervent opposition to bodily autonomy, LGBTQ rights, racial justice movements like Black Lives Matter, ‘wokeness,’ and liberalism more broadly, alongside more bread-and-butter topics like the challenges of working on Capitol Hill, conservative legal strategy, and the likelihood of a DeSantis presidential run in 2024. I ask R. if his penchants for…

The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…: the moderator was laughing so hard he had to cover his face with his cue-cards, while the audience cheered, reveling in their cruelty. Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, who was lauded by pundits during his campaign as a moderate Republican, and who won the governorship by zeroing in on the racist anti-CRT moral panic, joined the ranks of those who thought the attack on Pelosi was a laughing matter. At a campaign event, Youngkin declared—agai…

A Plea to Jewish Leaders: Help Us Reject All Institutional Efforts to Convert Muslims and Other People of Faith

By Scott C. Alexander

…o extinction. And besides, they’re not one of our major competitors. Their numbers are so low and they’re not really trying to make inroads into our market. Who knows? In fact, if we play our cards right, we might be able to bring them on board as a wholly owned subsidiary. So maybe we should leave them be. My Jewish teachers have taught me that, at the core of the notion of “chosen-ness” is a profound responsibility to fulfill the biblically-atte…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…istian charity to be a “misplaced” sentiment. Or consider Holland’s use of crediting Jesus with the ideal of monogamy by “conceptualizing desire” in binary homo-/hetero- fashion. Holland celebrates the way that Jesus’ teaching here permits Kraft-Ebbing to put his compassionate stamp of approval on homosexuality. How, one might ask? Well, provided that homosexuals remain monogamous, they are all right with the savior! Is this a variant of “the seam…