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No, Trump’s Evangelical Support Isn’t Cracking: The ‘Independent’ Jumps the Shark

By Chrissy Stroop

…fold by today’s leading evangelical power brokers, such as First Baptist – Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress, which Geddis notably misspells as “Jeffers” throughout his commentary. For example, when, in discussing evangelical pushback against outgoing Christianity Today editor Mark Galli’s December 2019 op-ed, “Trump Should Be Removed from Office,” Geddis remarks, “That letter rebuking the Christianity Today editorial was signed not only by leaders of…

Romney’s Mild Rebuke to Bryan Fischer, and Fischer’s Ugly Speech

By Sarah Posner

After radio host Bill Bennett rebuked Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress for his comments about Mormonism, Mitt Romney took the stage at the Values Voters Summit, and said, “How about that Bill Bennett?”, adding “he hit it out of the park”—the same words Rick Perry had used yesterday to describe Jeffress’ introduction of him. (Romney himself was introduced by the American Center for Law and Justice’s Jay Sekulow, whose organization is co-sp…

Louisville Diocese Throws Teacher Under the Bus Over Ebola Hysteria

By Evan Derkacz

…resigned amidst swirling frustration and fears about Ebola.” Thing is, the number of Ebola cases in Kenya is lower than Dallas. Which is to say, zero. There is no Ebola in Kenya. It’s one thing for some parents in Louisville to believe, as a certain former Republican Vice Presidential candidate is rumored to have, that Africa is a country, but it’s another for the Louisville diocese (whose Archbishop happens to be Joseph Kurtz, the head of the USC…

Black Pastor Who Introduced SBC Resolution Against Alt-Right Assumed It Would Be a “Slam Dunk”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…vote on a new resolution that condemned white supremacy, according to the Dallas Morning News. McKissic was not consulted in the drafting of the new resolution, which notably lacks much of the pointed Biblical critique of white supremacy and anti-Black racism that made McKissic’s resolution powerful. The final resolution, which passed unanimously Wednesday night, does name-check “white supremacy” and the “alt-right,” but ultimately condemns “ever…

The Evangelical Abortion Myth: An Excerpt from ‘Bad Faith’

By Randall Balmer

…t of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, expressed his satisfaction with the ruling. “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person,” one of the most famous fundamentalists of the twentieth century declared, “and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be…

King Politicizes “Unindicted Co-Conspirator” Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory

By Sarah Posner

…Investigation, as well as the prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Dallas, who had investigated and successfully prosecuted the Holy Land Foundation case. Their opposition to this decision raises serious doubt that the decision not to prosecute was a valid exercise of prosecutorial discretion.” As I have discussed previously, the “unindicted co-conspirators” theory is the foundation for conspiratorial assertions from the right that the Mu…

Chris Caldwell Sees Muslim Bogeymen. Again.

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…andt,” and London’s culture has more in common with that of Los Angeles or Dallas than it does with that of the city that braved the Blitz. In bold are the phrases which exude this notion that a glorious Europe has been, or is soon to be, destroyed. Such myopia about the problems of the past and dystopia about the wreckage of the future pervades Caldwell’s analysis. He uses both authors to shore up his own fixation on what he diagnoses as “the gri…

4 (More) Nails in Discovery Institute’s Coffin

By Lauri Lebo

…stitute took its creationist road show to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Titled 4 Nails in Darwin’s Coffin, the event was sponsored by a student religious organization known as Pulse and the Victory Campus Ministries and included a showing of the pro-intelligent design movie Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record. As Discovery Institute fellow Jonathan Wells said about the event in a news release, “The evidence is cl…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…orney Marc Randazza to represent them pro bono. Randazza has represented a number of far-right figures including Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich, and Andrew Anglin. TST-Santa Cruz announced their adoption of a local beach. Locals described being “shocked” that Satanists would clean up a beach but were not averse to the idea. Menstruatin’ with Satan art by Tina Scott. http://christina-scott.com TST-Arizona had a falling out with the local branch of the…

Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…stories, Pastor Robert Jeffress of 13,000-member megachurch, First Baptist Dallas, was also in the news for threatening the possibility of civil war (though he now denies that’s what he meant). Of course, the more flamboyant Christian Right leaders have a pattern of stochastic terrorism, just like the (arguably illegitimate) president they’ve rallied around who amplified Jeffress’s barely veiled threat via Twitter. Stochastic terrorism may seem to…