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‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…e, a promising football player—murdered by “illegals.” But it wasn’t until January 6 and the death of Ashli Babbitt in his name—Trump’s—that MAGA’s age of martyrs began in earnest. Babbitt was always a placeholder, just as were the January 6 “political prisoners,” their role in this passion play merely to keep the cross warm until Trump was ready. He’s ready. He’s coming. The state GOP chair—an ex-cop long linked to Proud Boys and III Percenters,…

Rising Christian Right Movement, New Apostolic Reformation, Emerged as a Mid-20th Century Splinter of White Supremacy

By Keri Ladner

In the days leading up to January 6, 2021, a New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) group known as Jericho March organized groups of Christians to pray, fast, and march around government buildings in Washington DC, in protest of the election results. Among the NAR apostles who called on their millions of followers to reject the results of the 2020 election are Lance Wallnau, Dutch Sheets, and Cindy Jacobs. Paula White—a popular televangelist, spiritual…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…der, anti-democracy agenda.” At a rally outside the Heritage Foundation in January d’Adesky told the crowd: “What’s amazing … about Project 2025; it’s so extreme that we don’t even have to exaggerate its contents or even editorialize. We just broke it down to tell you what they planned.” RD recently spoke to d’Adesky about the role of Christianity in Project 2025, what it would look like if implemented, and what US voters can do about it. This int…

‘Hell is a World Without You’ Shows Readers How Squarely They Would Have Been on Path to Jan 6 if They’d Come of Age in Evangelicalism

By Michael J. Altman

…bout the current moment. At times it had me thinking of it as a prequel to January 6th. How does the early 2000s landscape relate to American Christianity today? And how many of the novel’s telling details came from your own experience? JK: All the right-wing stuff with which my characters interact (persecution-complex song lyrics, casual misogyny, presumed queerphobia, etc.) could’ve been drawn from my memories alone, though I also studied. And I…

In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…e of their participation in the violent insurrection he himself incited on January 6, 2021, calling them “persecuted Christians” and “hostages.” He calls his political opponents “very evil people.” Before Trump spoke, his campaign set the stage for his remarks by playing a version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” sung by a group he has dubbed “the J6 prison choir,” comprised of 20 men who have been arrested, convicted, and incarcerated because of the…

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…e, in a couple of paragraph about Donald Trump’s campaign, which seemed in January destined to fizzle out at some point, I wrote that “Trump’s suggestion were less policy proposals than symbolic statements articulating the historic prejudices of great numbers of Americans, who feared immigrants generally, and he decline of white American nationalism particularly.” And voila! Ten months later, and the primary enabler, publisher, and purveyor of tho…

Left, Behind on Obama’s Warren Strategy

By Nick Street

…lesbian minister or a gay Sufi or a transgender rabbi to intone pieties on January 20, the payoff for us queers would have been a few hours of warm fuzzy feelings that would’ve quickly been swept away by a tsunami of right-wing outrage. Regardless of your adamant or indifferent attitude toward gay marriage as the lodestar of our movement, an initiative to overturn Prop 8—or any of the other antigay legislation that passed during the last election…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…sary of the U.K. parliament decriminalizing homosexual acts. It noted,: In January 2016 the majority of the leading Archbishops of the whole global Anglican Communion – almost 80 million people in 165 countries – confirmed the longstanding view of the Communion that diminishing and criminalising homosexual people is wrong. But, reported The Christian Post a month ago, “At least two conservative African archbishops have expressed intention to boyco…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…elonging to a gay club in a secret trial. The group was initially tried in January, when an angry mob surrounded the court and demanded their execution. Last Friday, March 7, was a global day of action against anti-gay repression in Nigeria. Russia and Ukraine: Division Among Putin’s Anti-Gay Supporters Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine is proving embarrassing to some, but not all, of the religious leaders who have embraced Putin as the sa…

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

By Robert Repino

…ntrary to what Hamid implies, there is no leftist/secularist equivalent of January 6, or of the ongoing efforts to distort and erase that event. But even if one agrees with Hamid’s vague association of deconversion with ideological conflict, it’s highly debatable that this correlation is also a cause, as he implies. One could argue that evangelical Christianity, rather than deconversion, correlates more cleanly with extremism in the United States,…