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Will Declining Numbers of White Evangelicals Change the Senate?

By Sarah Posner

…d look no further than Congress to recognize that there may be strength in numbers, but numbers alone do not automatically translate into strength.” And numbers alone do not automatically translate into weakness. The religious right spent decades building get-out-the-vote operations and candidate recruitment and training grounds. Those efforts do not vanish with demographic changes, particularly if evangelical turnout is outsized compared to other…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…eleased an evangelical football story about racial reconciliation in 1970s Alabama, called Woodlawn. The film was based on true events recounted in a book of the same name, but the Erwin brothers ignored a telling detail in their cinematic adaptation. In the film, a chaplain (played by Sean Astin, who is perhaps most famous for his role in the 1993 football movie Rudy) spurs a religious revival among a high school football team once seething with…

Text of Terror: A Bill Granting LGBT Citizens Equal Rights Evokes Biblical Citation

By Nick Street

…m to have lost their sense for the former. For me—a former seminarian from Alabama who now spends half the year in deep retreat at a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles—venturing into the dark, violent corners of right-wing American culture triggers sensations that are at once alien and familiar. On the one hand, just as a picture-postcard is a meager substitute for the direct experience of a sunset on the beach at Santa Monica, I no longer imagine tha…

Yes, It Was an Attack on Christianity

By Carlos Wilton

…pieces. The 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was another notorious transgression of sanctuary. Klan members planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite under the church’s front porch. Four young girls died and 22 other congregants were injured. Only a few of the perpetrators were ever prosecuted. In 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador was celebrating mass in a small chapel attached to a hospital. He had ju…

Art as Religion, Museum as Temple

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n reflections ranging from Roy Moore’s massive Ten Commandment monument in Alabama to the evangelical plea for maintaining the United States’ identity as a Judeo-Christian nation. But what I would like to pursue further is a strangely peripheral matter: the fact that this exchange took place in front of a museum, the first fully public art museum in the world. And what that museum housed is, presumably, something else over which Jews and Catholics…

Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative

By Sarah Posner

…egnancy Test Center (no mystery about its position, right?) in Birmingham, Alabama. On the National Fatherhood Initiative website, Sav-A-Life describes its mission as “to help men and women embrace the truth of God’s Word as they make life-affirming decisions about their unborn child.” Aha. There’s the fatherhood part. It may come as a surprise to Obama supporters, and in particular supporters of his promotion of responsible fatherhood, that his e…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…s pushed this sample legislation. In Florida, Missouri, South Carolina and Alabama, the bills failed. But in June, following overwhelming support in the state House and Senate, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana became the first governor to sign an “academic freedom” bill into law. Observers on both sides of the issue are now waiting for the first school district in the state to adopt a curriculum based on this new language. Of course, these academic freed…

Is Christianity Greening? Depends On Who (and How) You Ask

By Daniel Schultz

…volution, sometimes with disastrous results, such as Roy Moore’s defeat in Alabama. They’ve done better with blessing the wealthy and Republican politicians as Christian exemplars, sometimes with disastrous results, such as Jerry Falwell Jr.’s serial defenses of America’s Problem Child. In the same time frame, Christian liberals have been all over the place, as is their wont: for racial justice, gender equality, support for reproductive rights, an…

Latest “Religious Freedom” Bills Reveal a New Strategy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ing LGBT protections in those areas. South Dakota led the way, followed by Alabama, and Texas’ SB 156. The avalanche of anti-LGBT legislation already passing necessitates a sobering reminder: It’s only March. “Several state legislatures have filed religious refusal laws this year, claiming that their goal is to curb ‘government discrimination’ against religious people or organizations,” said Ashe McGovern, the associate director of Columbia Law Sc…

The Complicity of #NeverTrump Evangelicals in a Demagogue’s Rise

By Neil J. Young

…ebruary, often proving critical to his victories in Bible Belt states like Alabama and South Carolina. Some anti-Trump evangelicals have argued these voters are not “real evangelicals” or come mainly from those who don’t attend church very much. (I have shown, instead, that the data does not support such conclusions.) But all of this only obfuscates the unavoidable truth of this election year: Trump is winning because evangelicals are voting for h…