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“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…” includes Lea Carawan of the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, Bill Dallas of United in Purpose (a Christian Right strategic and capacity building organization), Buddy Pilgrim, a businessman who served as National Director for Faith & Religious Liberty for the 2016 presidential campaign of Ted Cruz, and of course David Barton. The Project Blitz report was published at the end of 2017 and is central to the Christian Right’s agenda in the sta…

“We All We Got”: The Black Church As an Oasis in Baltimore’s Food Deserts

By Kasai Rex

…garnered the attention of black churches in other cities like Chicago and Dallas. There has been a feeling that the church needs to be a genuine driver of change—not another server of empty rhetoric, and definitely not another actor complicit in a white supremacist system. (Our politicians have already done a fine job of that.) In this void, Black Lives Matter has evolved as a movement free of monoliths—as RD’s interview with #BlackLivesMatter co…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…ntly displaying the smiling faces of the three stars of the series: former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current Fox NFL analyst Troy Aikman, and two current players at that position, the Cowboys’ Tony Romo and Ryan Tannehill of the Miami Dolphins. Pastor Ed Young had made a pragmatic move to absorb, rather than compete with, the rival religion: Football is essentially a religion in our country. And historically speaking, the new football season…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…joint Thanksgiving services in order to draw decent-sized crowds. Today a number of Christian churches provide no worship service at all on Thanksgiving Eve or Day. Honoring it as a special time for families to get together, the churches are content to raise Thanksgiving themes on the Sunday before or after the holiday. It may seem surprising that there is not more outcry from some Christian groups about the diminished role of church services on…

Will the new Jurassic Park movie be an anti-GMO adventure?

By Michael Schulson

…genetics than a century of digging up bones,” a hubristic scientist (Bryce Dallas Howard) intones midway through the trailer. “A whole new frontier has opened up. We have our first genetically modified hybrid.” Cue the dramatic music and bubbling laboratory equipment, before neatly-dressed-scientist transitions to a scene featuring an earthy man in a brown vest, with fashionable scruff–Chris Pratt, looking like a cross between Indiana Jones and yo…

Rand Paul’s Messianic Campaign Video Shouts “Yes I Can!”

By Gareth Higgins

…lives among ordinary people, and comes to understand what the philosopher Dallas Willard meant by the “range of his effective will.” Presidential candidates have to believe (or pretend they believe) that they can save the world, even though we know (and they know) that they can’t. And it’s too easy for the public to default to complicity in this circle of untruths. The echoes of Messianic movement-building in the Rand Paul video (and surely in ma…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eings, it is against the devil.” Ocamb points to a 2007 interview with the Dallas Morning News: “My grandparents had practiced traditional religion before they became Christian. Now, in African traditional religion, if I had an attraction to a male person, that is considered as an abnormal thing, a spiritual problem. … Now, when my grandparents met the English, who introduced us to the Christian faith, they read the Bible to my grandparents, and s…

Tim Tebow Takes a Knee, Cancels Appearance at Controversial Megachurch Celebration

By Joanna Brooks

…ebow of having a “hate date” with Robert Jeffress, the outspoken leader of Dallas’ First Baptist Church, Tebow called Jeffress at home this week to let him know he’d be cancelling his scheduled appearance at First Baptist on April 28, a scheduled celebration of the 11,000-member church’s new $115 million home. In a series of tweets, Tebow told his public that he cancelled because he wanted to keep it positive: “I will continue to use the platform…

Louisville Diocese Throws Teacher Under the Bus Over Ebola Hysteria

By Evan Derkacz

…resigned amidst swirling frustration and fears about Ebola.” Thing is, the number of Ebola cases in Kenya is lower than Dallas. Which is to say, zero. There is no Ebola in Kenya. It’s one thing for some parents in Louisville to believe, as a certain former Republican Vice Presidential candidate is rumored to have, that Africa is a country, but it’s another for the Louisville diocese (whose Archbishop happens to be Joseph Kurtz, the head of the USC…

Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered

By Peter Laarman

…ed Professor of Constructive Theology at the Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, to unpack structural poverty and to address religion’s stake in the dramatic growth of economic inequality in American society. RD: You are a major participant in and architect of the forthcoming conference in Houston that will address the issue of structural poverty within a religious frame. Tell me what you think is significant about such a convocation? Rieger: Re…