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

By Melissa Deckman

…ound that women clergy identified as more Democratic and held more liberal policy views. Although we found that male clergy held more liberal positions in comparison to men in 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 pol…

Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution

By Andrew L. Seidel

…genuinely helpful policy proposals. He and his party lack any substantive policy positions, any original ideas that might actually help the people of Oklahoma—not to mention basic empathy. The sole concern for Bullard and his dull ilk seems to be imposing their conservative version of the Christian religion on the rest of the state by abusing a legislative power that is, constitutionally speaking, entirely secular. This is Christian nationalism….

U. of Colorado Appoints “Scholar of Conservative Thought”

By Paul Harvey

…and thus displacing God and mankind’s role in managing God’s creation. The policy prescriptions, while light, are modest and within the mainstream of current environmental policy discussions (including discussions of a particular form of carbon tax). Of more significance is the inclusion of a Genesis-based Christian viewpoint into a university with one of the leading environmental studies programs in the world. Hayward himself declares his intenti…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…inistration, set out to overhaul decades of established Republican foreign policy, shifting America’s focus from Russia to China. As Politico reported in 2023, he was an influential voice among those reluctant to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. Colby and his Allies frame themselves as “conservative realists,” which he’s trying to sell as the “middle way” between isolationism and interventionism. Battle against the “totalitarian” “group…

State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…he father of us all,” the “us” he referred to was the small group of elite policymakers who brought us the hydrogen bomb and the Cuban missile crisis, the IMF and the World Bank, because (as the NSC-68, which essentially set the policy for the Cold War, put it), even if there were no communist threat, the world had to move toward “some kind of order, on somebody’s terms.” Unfortunately Obama offers no way out of this tragic path. Though he shoul…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…I’ve discussed this topic at length here.) The fact is that current Church policy does allow for a living man to be “sealed” (married for eternity) to more than one woman at a time. For example, a widower or divorced man who has elected to terminate his civil marriage but not his LDS temple marriage is permitted to marry another woman in an LDS temple with the assurance that both first and second marriages would be eternal. The same is not possibl…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…Tutu appeared on the National Public Radio program On Being with Krista Tippett on Sunday. At the end of the interview, Tippett asked Tutu about the divisions within the Anglican Communion on sexuality issues. His comments were a perfect foreshadowing of the explosion around World Vision’s made-and-reversed move on hiring married gay Christians: “What a shame, I mean, well really, what a disgrace, that the church of God, in the face of so much suf…

Common Ground: Winning the Battle, Losing the Culture War

By Chip Berlet

…ly- to mildly-conservative evangelicals who respond to clearly-articulated policy positions by Democratic candidates. What are these concerns? Primarily it is the economy; but also poverty, war, corruption, the environment, education, health care, and more. Green and colleague Geoffrey C. Layman concluded after a major study of voting demographics: “The cultural wars are waged by limited religious troops on narrow policy fronts under special polit…

Cali Dept of Corrections v. Peter Laarman On Prison Crowding

By The Editors

…ng-term improvements to California’s criminal justice system. That’s smart policy, not “political expediency.” Peter Laarman responds: Simply put, Ms. Hoffman is changing the subject, calling attention to a Public Safety Realignment that was put into place two years ago, not actually defending the current Brown plan to keep a tight grip on the 10,000 who could still be released currently. I was writing about Brown’s recent last-minute plan to co…

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…had trained at IHOP, included a song exhorting attendees to “blow the trumpet in Zion,” and “sound the alarm,” a reference to Joel 2:1 (“Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming. It is close at hand.”) The subsequent verses refer to darkness, gloom, quaking earth, and consuming fires, as God gathers his army and ultimately shows mercy on those who repent for…