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The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for the ‘President-King’—The Right’s Prize for 50 Years of Planning

By Annika Brockschmidt

…raditional conservative distrust of concentrated government power. But the new generation of conservative activists, who had no firsthand memory of those fights, began to associate unchecked presidential authority with their desire for lower taxes, a more aggressive stance against Communism, and domestic policies that advanced traditional social values. To them, Congress was the bastion of liberal Democrats and liberal values, and the executive br…

Election Reporters: Here’s Why Simply Descriptors Like ‘Christians’ Can Have Enormous Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…or horseshoes and hand grenades. Thus we had paragraphs like this from Fox News: Trump emphasized the importance of Christian voters in the upcoming election, urging the crowd to take to the polls for early voting in their states and to show up on Election Day. “Christians have to vote, you know. I don’t want to scold you but you know that Christians do not vote proportionately they don’t vote like they should. They not big voters,” Trump said. “I…

The ‘Jezebel Spirit’ Isn’t (Just) Bible-Based Misogyny, it’s a Literal Demon — So What Happens When They ‘Stop Tolerating’ It?

By Michael E. Heyes

…ce that Jezebel represents. But for those who agree theologically with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement, the truth is far more complicated and threatening. The NAR is a grouping of loosely-affiliated charismatic churches and religious leaders—often termed “prophets” or “apostles.” As Frederick Clarkson writes, it is “the largest religious movement in recent American history, [and] has unabashed, undemocratic, and well documented politi…

Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

By Ben Lorber

…Nominated to lead the world’s most powerful military, the 44-year-old Fox News host served as a National Guard officer in Iraq and Afghanistan and served at Guantanamo Bay, the detention operation known for its flagrant human rights violations whose expansion he’s called for. Hegseth’s severe lack of qualifications for the Defense Secretary position is matched by his fervent commitment to the ‘war on woke’ in the military, unquestioning support f…

Editor’s Picks: Remembering the Broken Promises — and the Possibilities — on Independence Day

By The Editors

Independence Day doesn’t tend to cause as much dissonance as Thanksgiving, as much confusion as Juneteenth, and isn’t as widely reviled as Columbus Day (aka Indigenous People’s Day). Yet, while it “is not America’s birthday,” as Peter Laarman argued nearly a decade ago, Independence Day is every bit as apt as the holidays above to initiate—for better and certainly for worse—a discussion about what the American project actually is, what it was mea…

Already Beatified by the Right for Surviving an Assassination Attempt, Must We All Pray for Donald Trump?

By Daniel Schultz

I had some finessing to do on Sunday. I filled in for a colleague the morning after the attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life, you see. Just about everyone in the congregation had heard about it by that point, and they expected me to say something about it. But what? My denomination may have a progressive reputation but that’s not always the case, and in our neck of the woods it can be difficult to parse just how not-the-case a given co…

Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…tor-in-Chief of The Federalist, a right-wing publication with a history of promoting false information about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and climate change, showed no such restraint, proclaiming on Twitter: As a confessional Lutheran, I’m getting a lot of questions about Tim Walz possibly being Lutheran. FWIW, Walz is ELCA, an extremely left-wing sub-denomination. You may be familiar with the ELCA due to some of their congregations using the “spa…

Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It?

By Chrissy Stroop

…rmation: A version of this thesis appeared recently in a highly-circulated New York Times article, which made the bold claim that ‘Trump is connecting with a different type of evangelical voter’ beyond ‘the churchgoing, conservative activists who once dominated the G.O.P.’ Despite its zombie-like resurrections since Trump’s rise to power, the assertion that unchurched White evangelicals are the most supportive of Trump is not supported by the prep…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…ny not only affects the aforementioned bottom line considerations of major news outlets, but also limits the imaginations of those who fail to look at it critically. And if the politics of America’s White evangelicals and other authoritarian Christians over the last few election cycles aren’t enough to get The New York Times or The Atlantic to question the conflation of “Christian” with “good,” or to grasp that authoritarian Christians cannot be r…

A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy

By Caroline Matas

…ision most likely spurred by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News’s bombshell 2019 investigation revealing over 700 victims of sexual abuse within the SBC over the past two decades. To Brown, the sway evangelical faith leaders have over the power brokers of the Republican Party spells sure disaster. “When people talk about turning the US into a Christian nation, it makes me quake to ponder what that would mean for women in this count…