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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

…many dimensions of Christian thought that articulate a different sort of relationship between life and death, including the figure of Sister Death—the namesake of my book—which is attributed to Francis of Assisi. Rather than present death as an enemy, Francis presents her as a sister—part of a dynamic kinship network (alongside wind and water) that structures the lives of creatures. I think this is a view capacious enough to recognize that death…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…ot to pay for your bags of fudge rounds It’s hard not to read “welfare” as code. Welfare has long been used in conservative circles as a dog whistle for Black people, immigrants, and others who are supposedly too lazy to work and thus draining the life from our society. The idea of the “welfare queen,” a single Black urban mother, was introduced by Ronald Reagan in 1976: “At a campaign rally in 1976, Ronald Reagan introduced the welfare queen into…

Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?

By Robert Repino

…r how Douthat would react if someone suggested that Christians are more likely to believe in bullshit? And do we need to wonder how he would respond if someone referred to increased church attendance as “grim”? This is, after all, the same man who suggested people should go to church, even if they don’t believe, “for the sake of their country, their culture and their very selves.” Also at the Times, Nicholas Kristoff frames the decline of religion…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…and Haberman, “If Trump Wins.” [48] Lalee Ibssa and Soo Rin Kim, “Kash Patel tells members of media, government: ‘We’re going to come after you’ in Trump’s 2nd term,” ABC News, December 6, 2023, https://abcnews.go.com/US/kash-patel-tells-members-media-government-after-trumps/story?id=105432592. [49] Ian Ward, “The Brash Group of Young Conservatives Getting Ready for the Next Trump Administration,” Politico Magazine, November 3, 2023, https://www….

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

…e for Democrats to give space to Georgia Senator and Baptist preacher Raphael Warnock to deliver what essentially amounted to a sermon at the DNC. After all, Black Christians remain the backbone of the Democratic coalition. But just as the DNC would have come off as more inclusive by featuring Palestinian American and transgender speakers (most LGBTQ+ Americans are, incidentally, nonreligious), secular Americans could have been included too. Repre…

Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…in the few cases where politically liberal actors have claimed that their religious beliefs compel them to violate the law, courts have typically been unwilling to find that such convictions constitute a valid defense. As in the Plowshares trial, earlier this year a federal court in Arizona denied a RFRA defense brought by an activist with the No More Deaths movement who had provided humanitarian aid to undocumented migrants who had crossed the so…

Is God a Winning Strategy for Democrats?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…se he took Coons’ advice. Never mind the pesky facts that incumbents win reelection well over 80% of the time and that Brown had won his previous two races by an average of over 9%. Throughout history, religious, theological, and biblical arguments have been used to justify slavery, segregation, and the subjugation of women. Even Martin Luther King, Jr.—who some readers have already mentally invoked as a counter argument on reading this article—un…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…-LGBT religious activists are expanding their global reach, including the relatively small and extreme group MassResistance, which has boasted in recent months about helping anti-equality activists in Mexico and launching a new chapter in Nigeria. Last Tuesday, the group wrote about the assistance it is providing Christian groups who are opposing the advance of marriage equality in Taiwan. BuzzFeed, the polling firm Ipsos, and the Williams Institu…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…magazine: One feature of this “ecumenism of hate” is a clear “Manichean” delineation between absolute good and evil, it said, and a confident sense of who belongs in which camp as could be seen with U.S. President George W. Bush’s list of nations in an “axis of evil” and President Trump’s “fight against a wider, generic collective” body of those who are “bad” or even “very bad.” The authors briefly examine the origins and spread of evangelical fu…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…equality and reproductive choice around the world, announced that it has selected veteran Religious Right activist Mike Farris to be its CEO and president as founder Alan Sears steps down. Rex Tillerson, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s choice to be secretary of state, declined at his confirmation hearing to say specifically whether gay rights are human rights, but he did say that “American values don’t accommodate violence or discriminatio…