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Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…han White evangelical bodies like the Missouri Synod or the WELS? Hey, you betcha, as they say in Minnesota. But “extremely left-wing”? Not really. In fact, the ELCA, like mainline Protestants overall, tends to be right around the average views for all Americans, or just slightly more progressive. And when it comes to views on racial discrimination and immigration, White mainline Protestants tend to be closer to their counterparts in White evangel…

Rising Christian Right Movement, New Apostolic Reformation, Emerged as a Mid-20th Century Splinter of White Supremacy

By Keri Ladner

…G). Meanwhile, the NAR is a racially and culturally diverse coalition that promotes Christian Zionism as fervently as it promotes Christian nationalism in the US. And while the NAR’s philosemitism can itself be deeply problematic, it certainly isn’t as threatening as White supremacy’s conspiracy-laden antisemitism. However, as recently as the mid-twentieth century, the movements actually were the same. William Branham (1909-1965) was a revivalist…

Editor’s Picks: Remembering the Broken Promises — and the Possibilities — on Independence Day

By The Editors

…Independence Day is every bit as apt as the holidays above to initiate—for better and certainly for worse—a discussion about what the American project actually is, what it was meant to be, and whose interests it was meant to serve. These are questions RD has sought to address over the years, questions that remain as relevant—again, for better and certainly for worse—as when we published our first piece in February of 2008. As we approach another h…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…eaches that the separation of church and state is itself unconstitutional) promote the notion that affirmation of LGBTQ identities leads to national weakness. In addition to warning that public schools are grooming children into an “LGBTQ lifestyle,” they’ve worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom on anti-LGBTQ legislation. And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the institutionally subtle but politically powerful influence exerted by the NA…

Already Beatified by the Right for Surviving an Assassination Attempt, Must We All Pray for Donald Trump?

By Daniel Schultz

I had some finessing to do on Sunday. I filled in for a colleague the morning after the attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life, you see. Just about everyone in the congregation had heard about it by that point, and they expected me to say something about it. But what? My denomination may have a progressive reputation but that’s not always the case, and in our neck of the woods it can be difficult to parse just how not-the-case a given co…

Trump the Totem: Like Other Fascist Leaders, Trump has Turned from Man to Symbol — And That’s the Danger

By Robert P. Jones

…being indicted for you…. And never forget our enemies want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. And I’m never gonna let it happen. They wanna silence me because I will never let them silence you. And in the end, they’re not after me. They’re after you. I just happen to be standing in the way. When the leader becomes the totem, no transgression is capable of separating him from his acolytes. A totem can’t li…

The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for the ‘President-King’—The Right’s Prize for 50 Years of Planning

By Annika Brockschmidt

…his decision by the Court are enormous, writes Sotomayor: The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law. And, while the majority opinion, written by John Roberts is a blatant, craven power grab (if only it meant we’ll never again have to hear that Roberts is a “moderate” and “institutionalist”), it also illustrates the continued rad…

The ‘Jezebel Spirit’ Isn’t (Just) Bible-Based Misogyny, it’s a Literal Demon — So What Happens When They ‘Stop Tolerating’ It?

By Michael E. Heyes

…iteral demon called “The Jezebel Spirit.” For example, a recent discussion between Lance Wallnau and Mario Murillo, two prophets of the NAR movement, characterized Harris as making use of “witchcraft” and “the occult” in her debate with Trump. As Wallnau explains, “that’s where demons come upon you… [and] organize and galvanize in order to make you more powerful than you are.” The culprit? “With Kamala, you have a Jezebel Spirit… the personificati…

Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

By Ben Lorber

…there’s Pete Hegseth, whose 2020 book, American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free, Jeff Sharlet wrote about this week. Nominated to lead the world’s most powerful military, the 44-year-old Fox News host served as a National Guard officer in Iraq and Afghanistan and served at Guantanamo Bay, the detention operation known for its flagrant human rights violations whose expansion he’s called for. Hegseth’s severe lack of qualifications for the Defense S…

A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy

By Caroline Matas

…e control and female submission, Jesus and John Wayne drew stark parallels between so-called biblical patriarchy and the militant masculinity of the American political rightwing. To Du Mez’s surprise, some evangelical women readers met the book with a mix of praise and resignation. “‘It’s too late for us,’” Du Mez recalls them saying. “‘We’ve made our choices, and we can’t walk away from the lives we’ve made. But we want something different for ou…