Search for "january airline tickets cheap qatar airways phone number 1-800-299-7264"

What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…ion in which the headline points us—to say nothing of its downgrade of the January 6 insurrection to a mere “riot.” Or take this Associated Press headline from September: “Faith Groups Aid Haitian Migrants, Denounce Mistreatment.” The framing implies that faith groups in general are pro-immigrant, which is simply not true. And the problem isn’t only with the headline. Note how the following two sentences from the article pit “faith-based groups” a…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…’s also a member of the far-right “Oath Keepers,” a militia present at the January 6 attack on the Capitol. And just like Fuentes, Rogers has called for political violence—the difference being that she’s an elected Republican official. She’s stated that there were “more gallows needed” for the Right’s political enemies and has called for “more rope and less inflation” on the right-wing site Gab. And speaking of Gab—another escalation, even by AFPA…

“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local

By Frederick Clarkson

…teemed authors.” The Coalition’s weekly broadcast, which is available on a number of cable channels, is almost always deeply political, and has featured such guests as the aforementioned Lance Walnau; Tony Perkins and Jerry Boykin, president and executive vice president respectively of the Family Research Council; Bob McEwen, executive director of Council for National Policy (a secretive conservative leadership group); and of course David Barton,…

The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism

By Chrissy Stroop

…thusiastic evangelical Trump support and the clearly Christian nationalist January 6 insurrection, many American liberals and elite commentators still frequently address this topic in counterproductive ways. On the one hand, there’s the tendency to denounce white evangelicals and other authoritarian Christians as “fake Christians.” On the other, there’s the tendency to write softball pieces on evangelicals that either downplay or excuse their extr…

Student Expelled from Sorority for Transphobia Illustrates the Problem with Evangelical Understanding of Pluralism

By Chrissy Stroop

…more, and louder.” Because if there’s one thing the America that produced January 6 clearly doesn’t have enough of, it’s loud conservative voices. Perhaps A-list culture warriors aren’t exactly lining up to advance Hines’s cause because she’s too blunt and unsympathetic, though her talking points are the stuff of just about any statement of faith or lifestyle agreement required of students and faculty at evangelical colleges, and of employees of…

Times’ Link of NOI With Capitol Killer is Based on Flawed Comparison Between Rightwing Christian Nationalism and Black Religious Nationalism

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…that God is just: That his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!” Was it Minister Louis Farrakhan? Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Some other Black liberation theologian? No, no, and no. These words were penned by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of In…

The End of Roe and School Prayer: America is Not Ready to Be a Christian Nation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…U.S. Senate after they breached the Capitol. It marked their territory on January 6th and will do the same flying over the seat of government in one of our oldest cities. This term’s likely decisions, along with a host of other decisions this Court has handed down over the last decade and which I detail in American Crusade, will likely do incalculable damage to the separation of church and state. And that is a direct threat to our democracy. With…

The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…” Gateways has also jointly sponsored Religious Freedom Sunday (this year, January 13) with the Christian right legal network, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). Every president since 1993 has issued the annual presidential RFD proclamation, as required by Congress, but Trump was the first to overtly use it to promote the agenda of the Christian right. Trump had referenced a number of recent legal battles over religious exemptions from the law (som…

We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson and Cari Jackson

This Religious Freedom Day, January 16th, we want to highlight the idea that religious freedom is inescapably linked with reproductive freedom. We cannot fully have one without the other. Religious Freedom Day was designated by Congress to commemorate the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786. The first such legislation in the history of the world, it has informed the highest aspirations of American democracy ever since….

UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…of today’s hydra-headed whitemanist surge the coup that never ends because January 6 was hardly the end of the story. These are not people who will ever accept a diverse and functioning democracy in a country where non-Hispanic whites will slip below 50% of the total population within just a few decades. And here I will raise an alarm that’s not so much about the Right’s ongoing potency but about the Left’s complementary lack of same. I mentioned…