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Proof-Texting at the Sugar Bowl: Tebow’s Big Finale

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…easons’s standard: “I can do all things.” No one can do all things, as the Florida team discovered to its great dismay in the last regular season game when they were trounced by the currently number one ranked University of Alabama’s “Crimson Tide.” No one can do all things, and certainly faith in God does not guarantee victory, neither in battle nor on the gridiron. That is as central aspect of the Christian story—embodied in a “suffering servant…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…offers Christians a comic critique of atheists. But atheists in Lakeland, Florida don’t think opening City Commission meetings with prayer is a laughing matter. The Atheists of Florida has filed a suit against the city and the mayor in U.S. District Court. Meanwhile, the North Carolina House of Representatives is rethinking its own prayerful opening to sessions. If your kids don’t have a clear picture of America as a “Christian nation” you can se…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ssrooms in 16 states this fall. New laws in Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Florida, and South Dakota encourage or require public schools to display the divisive national motto: In God We Trust. Piecemeal reporting on the laws gives the impression that state legislators around the country are spontaneously discovering the value of imposing a religious slogan on a captive audience of schoolchildren. But pious wave is no coincidence, these laws are p…

Do Sheriffs Actually Have the Power to Disrupt Elections?

By Cloee Cooper

…velopment is the plan by CSPOA Sheriffs to intimidate election clerks. The Florida chapter of CSPOA has, for instance, proposed forming citizen militias to pressure election clerks if they suspect election fraud. They have a multi-part plan to roll this out, which has been deeply reported on by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) Executive Director, Devin Burghardt. We should note that True the Vote, a multimillion-dol…

Beyond the Miniskirt-Wearing Nun: What Catholic Reform Looks Like

By Colleen McDannell

…your interest? Several years ago, the Catholic church my parents go to in Florida decided to renovate their sanctuary. What had once been a spare, modernist space was transformed into a traditional one with the addition of a large crucifix, statues of the saints, and Stations of the Cross. It seemed to me that I was witnessing the disappearance of “Vatican II Catholicism” even before scholars had clarified what it was that was disappearing. The S…

A Sliver of White Evangelicals Abandoning Trump, But That May Be Enough

By Daniel Schultz

…In order to be on track for reelection, he would have to be improving his numbers with white Christians, and it’s just not happening. Last, Trump is taking a huge hit among older voters, dropping 14 points in favorability with those 65 or older. Unscientifically, this may be what’s causing the fall in his religious numbers. Because older voters tend to be more religious than younger ones, a decline in one set will very likely be reflected in the…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…gram descriptions. Whatever his fate in these matters, Rapert epitomizes a number of trends on the Christian Right, here in the End Times. While the notion that the Christian Right is dead, diminished or in precipitous decline may never die, the movement nevertheless continues to grow and adapt to the ever-evolving religious and political landscape. Its strength has never been in the raw numbers of conservative evangelicals and conservative Cathol…

DeSantis is More Polished and Less Bombastic Than Trump — But is He Less of a Threat to Democracy?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…rom this otherwise extremely underwhelming election night for Republicans: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. And while the Democrats’ surprisingly strong performance has bought American democracy some time, it doesn’t mean that the Right’s attack on democracy is over just because Republicans have become—at least privately—increasingly disgruntled with Trump. And herein lies the danger of DeSantis becoming Trump’s successor, or even being lauded by Ne…

Atheist Holiday Display: “A” Does Not Stand for “Art”

By Peter Manseau

…andidate nominated by their party who happened to be an atheist.” Gallup’s numbers “were considerably more favorable for hypothetical candidates who happened to be black (94 percent), Jewish (92 percent), women (88 percent), Hispanic (87 percent), Mormon (72 percent) or homosexual (55 percent).” What’s going on here? It may be that among the groups included in the poll, only atheists consistently define themselves through negation. This may be una…

Abuse in the Name of God? Children and Faith Healing

By Shawn Francis Peters

…s who reject medicine and turn to prayer when their children are ailing. A number of groups have lobbied for the repeal of such religious exemptions, chief among them the advocacy organization Children’s Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD). Its head, Rita Swan, has argued that these stipulations, while safeguarding the religious liberty of parents, endanger the health of children and violate several different interrelated constitutional standards….