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Conservative Activist Says Tea Party Movement Needs “Reverence to God”

By Sarah Posner

…wing comments about Ralph Reed, whom Hardage said he knew from his days as Ohio state legislative director for the Reed-led Christian Coalition. Hardage dismissed concerns over Reed’s past political scandals, calling him “pivotal,” a “dynamo,” and “an honorable man, one of the brightest political minds our country has seen.” Insisting that Reed’s new Faith and Freedom Coalition is “going to be a mover and shaker,” he added, “no one articulates our…

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…st raised their heads in North Carolina. Whack. Then Kentucky. Whack. Then Ohio. Whack. Then Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas. Whackwhackwhack. The fight continues. And I encourage everyone to support those who want our kids to grow up in the real world, which is so beautiful and surprising and rich. Anyway, there’s a nice little piece of snark that has popped up from the more atheistic side of the pro-science forces. This group of folks has noticed that…

Santorum Spokesperson Confuses “Radical Environmentalism” with “Radical Islamic” Policies with “Theological Secularism”

By Sarah Posner

In a campaign speech in Ohio on Saturday, Rick Santorum accused President Obama of embracing a “phony ideal,” a “phony theology.” Not “a theology based in the Bible, a different theology.” He’s claiming his remarks were taken out of context. Watch (at about two minutes in), where he talks about environmentalism being a “phony theology:” When questioned by Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation yesterday about why he was calling the president’s faith in…

ELCA Removes All Barriers to Gay Inclusion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l abstained from the vote. Keith A. Hunsinger, council member, Oak Harbor, Ohio, who said he does not agree with the sexuality decisions made in August 2009, announced April 11 that he had abstained on each vote on the documents. He explained that he didn’t believe that the first drafts of the documents released last fall embodied the full range of decisions made at the 2009 assembly. “My conscience won’t allow me to vote for any of these document…

Oklahoma Supreme Court Unanimously Blocks Personhood Ballot Initiative UPDATED

By Katie Toth

…hood activist Dr. Patrick Johnson use the exact same phrase to describe an Ohio fetal heartbeat bill as not adequately anti-abortion.) Skerbitz said the group will have to study the ruling before attorneys suggest a next move. But it’s getting more difficult for Personhood activists in Oklahoma to get traction, because they haven’t exactly been making nice in the legislature. Just weeks ago, they launched a media blitz in Oklahoma, presumably in t…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng the false and harmful narrative that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating people’s pets. Citing the bomb threats that shut down local schools after former president Donald Trump emphasized the talking point in his September 10 debate with Kamala Harris, Moore writes: When we are willing to see children terrorized rather than stop telling lies about their families, we should step back, forget about our dogs and cats for a moment, a…

Beyond White Reasonable Doubt: Why I Cannot Fully Celebrate the Verdict Against [Let His Name Be Erased]

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…was fatally shot by the police she had called for protection in Columbus, Ohio. Her “crime”? Having a knife to protect herself from the abuser she called the police to protect her from. Instead of a reasonable reaction by the police, to paraphrase Fanon’s sentiments in Black Skin, White Masks, when the Black person enters reason exits and another Black child is fatally shot. White reason places the burden on Black people to continually justify th…

Bobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.

By Murali Balaji

…similar to Jindal’s. I grew up in small towns in New Jersey, New York, and Ohio before my family settled in the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1980s, and I was subjected to the worst types of bullying and racism during my elementary school years. A few choice examples: I was called the ‘n’-word on a daily basis; was threatened with detention if I didn’t sing gospel songs in my public school music class; and a teacher once asked whether the “chilled m…

At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…resembling the QAnon theme song, “Wwg1wga,” much as he did in September in Ohio. It might be easy to dismiss the cheesy version of the “Star Spangled Banner” or the QAnon tune (which reeks of stock music one might find using the search terms “epic” and “mystical spa sounds”) as laughable; as a shrill heretical parody of what liturgy, hymns and sermons are. But it would also be short-sighted, because for those within the crowd, the music, the spect…

Godless Liberals: The Myth of the Secular Enlightenment

By David Sorkin

…s such notable historians as J.G.A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins), Dale Van Kley (Ohio State University), Derek Beales (Cambridge University) and Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study) have conducted a long-term campaign against it. They have taken issue with individual aspects. Pocock, for example, has argued repeatedly and eloquently against the notion of a single, secular Enlightenment, proposing the notion of a “family of Enlightenments” and…