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The Potentially Explosive Russian Church Intrigue Revealed by Mueller Investigation

By Katherine Kelaidis

…mocracy protests in Moscow in 2012. He has frequently supported government policy in sermons and on state-run television, positioning Russia in the role of spiritual defender in response to Western objections to Russian human rights policy: “We have been through an epoch of atheism, and we know what it is to live without God. We want to shout to the whole world, ‘Stop!’” His 2011 book, Freedom and Responsibility, posits a contemporary political la…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…lso dismissed any concerns about the influence of coal money on the public policy statements of the diocese. “It’s just a non-issue in such discussions,” he told me. “I’m flabbergasted the topic is even coming up.” Certainly a deeper and more sustained conversation is necessary. In order to yield fruit, such conversations require some degree of financial transparency on the part of the church. This is rarely an easy task, as dioceses are not subje…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…hnmark/status/1232499002286850048?s=20 In any case, Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions regarding Israel have been shaped almost entirely by America’s apocalyptically minded white evangelicals, and not by Jews at all. It’s evangelicals’ beliefs about Israel’s role in “fulfilling biblical prophecy” that resulted in Trump upending decades of American foreign policy by moving the embassy in the first place as a gesture of recognition of Jerusalem…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…n order to capitalize on this pandemic weariness, the Council for National Policy invested in a campaign against the supposed teaching of critical race theory in America’s schools. By the time Chris Rufo began tweeting about CRT in March of 2021, the CNP had already inspired the “grassroots” organization, Parents Defending Education (or DefendingEd), in Virginia. Soon thereafter anti-CRT pieces appeared at The Federalist and on Fox News. By June,…

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…ude monitoring religious freedom violations around the globe and providing policy recommendations to the president, the Secretary of State, and Congress. Nevertheless, since the USCIRF’s inception, the commission has largely been populated by conservative Christians and has received significant pushback from advocates of religious pluralism, especially those interested in Muslim citizens’ religious freedom at home and abroad. In 2010, Safiya Ghori…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t he had married his partner in London on New Year’s Eve. Ukraine: Foreign Policy profiles ‘dashed hopes’ of LGBT community Writing for Foreign Policy, Dimiter Kenarov explores the hostility facing Ukraine’s LGBT community. The article starts with the torching of a theater that had been showing a queer-themed movie as part of a film festival, and the arrest of suspects who confessed that their goal had been to express their “contempt” for LGBT peo…

Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden

By Chrissy Stroop

…iction that religious beliefs should be allowed no influence whatsoever on policy that undermines equal accommodation in the public square for people who do not share those beliefs. Nor should they shape anyone’s ability to access the best healthcare they need in a given situation, to adopt children, or to marry. This isn’t merely theoretical to me. Although I cannot get pregnant, being queer is enough to deter me from seeking healthcare in a Cath…

Study Shows Mainline Women Clergy Are Significantly More Progressive Than Their Male Counterparts

By Melissa Deckman

…the general population, a significant gender gap appeared on a variety of policy attitudes, including cultural issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights. In a survey released this fall, my organization PRRI found once again that mainline Protestant clergy overall are more politically progressive and identify as more Democratic than their parishioners. But what an initial analysis failed to note was the significant gender gap that continues to shap…

Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse

By Michael Schulson

…clearinghouse. I can imagine someone thinking about these issues with the policy tools available to them. Yeah, totally. And some people have done good work. Although there’s been an incredible paucity of work there. It’s hard to take [these concerns] into the public arena and go, “you know, you really ought to be worried, in thirty years there might be this issue,” without it devolving into an exercise of fear-mongering. Something that I appreci…

Huckabee Teams Up with Citizens United to Promote Fetal Personhood

By Sarah Posner

…aiming adherence to biblical bases for law, guideposts for legislation and policymaking. In addition to promoting the notion that from the moment of conception there is exists a person “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” the film employs other narratives that are quickly, along with personhood, becoming the movement’s predominant themes: that abortion is a deadly, profit-driven “industry;” that doctors and other staff invo…