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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…example, when Raphael Warnock challenged Kelly Loeffler in 2020 for one of Georgia’s Senate seats, the incumbent held a rally where her political ally Doug Collins said, “There’s no such thing as a pro-choice pastor.” White evangelicals make up one-third of the GOP. The GOP is notoriously probing when it comes to gauging their bases’ priorities and desires. If abortion isn’t much of a motivation anymore, why has this been a record-breaking year fo…

Female Deacons: Pope Francis Walks It Back, Women Clergy Weigh In

By Kaya Oakes

…uccession with Rome, are also excommunicated when ordained. In the case of Georgia Walker, the first Roman Catholic Woman Priest ordained in Kansas City, she was informed of her excommunication by certified letter in 2015 because of her participation in what the diocese referred to as a “simulated ordination.” In spite of the advocacy of groups like the Women’s Ordination Conference, little progress has been made on the issue. It’s understandable,…

Gay and Christian and About to Lose Their Jobs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…that institutions such as the military and private Christian colleges, who promote the ideas of honesty and integrity would force their members to adhere to statements that may result in employees feeling they must lie or hide to protect their livelihoods. Certainly, those who don’t like it can find new jobs and Shorter will have the employee base it wants — good, obedient, homogenized Christians who gladly sign a list of beliefs and adhere to the…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…increase communication and coordination between members of the “religious freedom movement.” This includes such groups as the Heritage Foundation, Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, and Family Policy Councils, which are state-level lobbies affiliated with both Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. RD asked Samantha Sokol of the legislative affairs unit at Americans United for Separation of Church and State to compare the 20…

The Power of Bad Faith! Prophesying a “Death Panel” for Health Care Reform

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ent “for the people by the people,” when we can embrace a nebulous idea of freedom. The question of “freedom for what?”, though, remains irrelevant for this faithful tribe of self-proclaimed patriots. But the problem with this, like all unyielding yet nihilistic forms of faith, is that it obscures the real circumstances of existence and any possibility for positive growth among its adherents. Theological certainty coupled with an insecure social r…

All the Candidates’ Religion Problems

By Sarah Posner

…d-evening yesterday, as the obvious polls poured in (Newt Gingrich winning Georgia, Mitt Romney winning Vermont), a strange delirium seized professional election returns watchers. First there was that surreal CNN webcam video of Sarah Palin, offering up non-prognostications about her party’s upcoming convention and her own visions for 2016; then there was Nate Silver seeing no clear path to a Romney victory in Ohio. Could Rick Santorum really win…

DOMA and Religious Right Hypocrisy on “Big Government”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…intrudes upon the lives of gay and lesbian couples and eats away at their freedoms. That intrusion and loss of freedom often leaves them homeless and in poverty because the lives they have built with their partners, often over many years, have no protection from “big government.” The bottom line for the religious right appears to be this: “Big government is bad when it regulates what goes on in my wallet, but good when regulates what goes on in s…

Battling The Antichrist By Outlawing Microchips

By Joseph Laycock

…ermal implants. A similar bill has just passed the house in Tennessee. The Georgia State Senate also passed an anti-microchip bill last month, sponsored by two Chips: Republican State Senators Chip Pearson and Chip Rogers, both Baptists and active in their churches. Beast 2.0 The sponsors of these bills, all of them Republicans and outspoken conservative Christians, claim that preventing the forced implantation of microchips is a civil rights issu…

Rick Warren Gives Pre-Inauguration Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church

By Michael A. Elliott

…essay comparing the virtues of Coretta Scott King to Michelle Obama. Even Georgia’s senior senator, Republican Saxby Chambliss, noted the symmetry between King’s speech at the Lincoln Memorial, some forty-five years ago, and Obama’s impending inaugural on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Meanwhile, to someone as keenly observant as Ralph, what the Obama inauguration also meant for the King holiday service was a depletion of luminaries. Nearly every…

Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia

By Anthea Butler

…members of strict churches can’t uphold the high standards of living they promote, aspire to, and harangue people over. The endless carousel of revelations about the Catholic Church worldwide is exhibit A of that broken message. In that sense, there is nothing new here. The real story however, is that this case explodes the cover of the black church’s internal don’t ask, don’t tell policy which has had a profound effect on the community and its f…