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‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning

By Chrissy Stroop

…for Roe. I was born on July 1, 1980, not quite two months before Ronald Reagan famously uttered “I endorse you” to an audience of about 17,000 evangelical Christians gathered in Dallas, Texas for an event billed as The National Affairs Briefing. Over the course of my childhood, we consolidated our power in the Republican Party, as traditionalist Catholics—at least in my more “respectable” evangelical milieu—came to be regarded less as “idolators,…

The Right’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Didn’t Begin with QAnon — You Have to Go Back a Bit Further to Get to the Source

By Sophie Bjork-James

…held rallies across the country seeking to save children from an imagined cabal of Democratic sexual predators. Yet this tactic goes back much further, to the emergence of the national Christian Right. In 1977, former beauty queen and Christian singer, Anita Bryant, launched one of the first heterosexual rights campaigns in the US in response to a Dade County Commission decision to extend civil rights to sexual minorities. But instead of framing h…

What the Latest ‘God’s Not Dead’ Gets Egregiously Wrong — and Right — About Homeschooling

By R.L. Stollar

…hildren about Noah’s Flood. The parents travel to Washington D.C. to lobby against a related federal bill that would nationalize educational standards in the US and make homeschooling illegal. Pure Flix, the evangelical version of Netflix that was acquired by Sony in 2020, is run by David A.R. White, who has starred in all four of the “God’s Not Dead” films. A Mennonite pastor’s kid who moved to Hollywood when he was 19, White isn’t just the head…

Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? Does it Matter?

By Andrew Porwancher

…Indies where she soon married a merchant named Johan Levine in 1745. The balance of evidence in the historical record suggests the following: Johan was Jewish, Rachel converted to Judaism to marry him, and she raised her son Alexander in her adopted faith. Let us begin with Johan Levine. Hamilton scholars have long expressed skepticism that Levine had a Jewish identity on the grounds that the Danish records did not classify him as Jewish. But, as…

Less for Moore? If Russell Moore Left the SBC Due to Conscience and Convictions His Next Move Is a Curious One

By Chrissy Stroop

…ident Augie Boto considered the public focus on addressing abuse to be “a satanic scheme to completely distract us from evangelism.” On the one hand, then, Moore’s decision to leave the SBC appears to be motivated by conscience and conviction. But on the other hand, if that is the case, the choice of his new church home, Immanuel Church, an Acts 29 Network church in Nashville, Tennessee, is an eyebrow-raising one. https://twitter.com/juleswoodson1…

On the Erasure of Whiteness in Responses to Convicted Pedophile Jan Joosten, a White Man

By Jae Han

…rstand how some scholars have responded to one of the most horrific crimes against children—especially Asian children—in recent memory. On June 19, 2020, the story broke that a powerful white male scholar, Jan Joosten, had downloaded over 27,000 pictures and 1,000 videos of child pornography over a period of at least six years. Some of these victims were children “originaires d’Asie ou des pays de l’Est” (originating in Asia or Eastern countries)….

How a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump’s Bizarre Baby Execution Story

By Karen E. Park

…d saw that it was not a piece of meat, but recognized it by its fingers as a child’s arm, they reported it to the magistrates, and it was found that a child had died before baptism, lacking an arm. So the witch was taken and questioned, and confessed the crime, and that she had, as has been said, killed more children than she could count. Stories such as these are not “lies” to be debunked any more than Trump’s statement in Green Bay is a lie. Spr…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…in the final months of the 2016 election was the conspiracy known as “Pizzagate.” Supposedly, a D.C. restaurant housed a pedophilia ring involving members of the Democratic Party, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. Podesta’s emails—released by WikiLeaks, and probably hacked by Russia—revealed phrases like “cheese pizza” and other code words for child sex-trafficking. Hillary Clinton herself may have been involved. The rin…

Unreleased Religious Freedom Manifesto Isn’t the Culture War Compromise It Hopes to Be

By Frederick Clarkson

…ted in opposition to all discrimination, violence, and threats of violence against Americans based on their faith. We call on elected leaders and our fellow Americans to condemn such unconscionable acts in the strongest possible terms and to work with us to defeat them.” “[G]overnment must always respect and protect the bedrock principle that one’s rights as a citizen should never depend upon one’s religious identity, beliefs, or peaceful practice…

What We Cannot Do is Be Revolutionaries Except When We’re Mothering

By Kentina and Naomi Washington-Leapheart

“Children are the ways that the world begins again and again.” – June Jordan, The Creative Spirit and Children’s Literature (1977) Our daughter, Sophia, doesn’t know exactly what she wants to do when she becomes an adult—we keep telling her that circus contortionists aren’t necessarily in high demand—and she doesn’t know if she wants to get married. But our 11-year-old is joyously clear about one thing: she wants to be a mother. We think that u…