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Trump’s Bibles and Sneakers Campaigns Tell an Old Story About the Role of Race in Christian Nationalism

By Dara Delgado

…nationalism, suggesting, as NBC News’s Dasha Burns points out, that the GBUSA might actually be a move in their direction. So if the GBUSA is a nod to Latino evangelicals, how is Trump courting Black voters? Despite the fact that Black Americans remain the most religious demographic in the country, this was not the intended audience for Trump’s Bible. Instead, when Trump sought to promote his latest wares, he didn’t approach Black American voters…

Does ‘Criss-Cross Apple Sauce’ Make Yoga Secular? Opponents of Yoga in Public Schools Have a Point

By Candy Gunther Brown

…s “to wake up to the needs of Alabama pupils.” Zed has been outspoken in a number of yoga controversies in recent years. Notably, he opposed a 2014 tax on D.C. yoga studios as a “religious infringement”—arguing that yoga is “one of the six systems of orthodox Hindu philosophy” and “a mental and physical discipline by means of which the human-soul (jivatman) united with the universal-soul (paramatman).” If Godfrey, Jois, Zed, and Alabama legislator…

When the Church’s LGBTIQ Loss is the World’s Gain

By Mary E. Hunt

…s advocates – during these times of transition in the Presbyterian Church (USA).” Over the years, Jane was brought up twice on ecclesial charges for presiding at same sex marriages. Even when convicted, the local authorizes refused to impose the penalty. History and the Supreme Court proved them all prophetic. The ordination ban was eventually modified so that local Presbyterian churches are free to select their own ministers regardless of sexual…

The Ordinary Jesus: An Excerpt from Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

By James Carroll

…ipped of the intellectual horizon within which faith, for most of these thousands of years since Abraham, has had its resonance. Even while understanding that loss, still the conclusion of this long inquiry includes a frank criticism of contemporary culture for its ignorance of, and indifference to, the language of transcendence. The divinity of Jesus is problematic, but the blatant repudiation of the faith that constructs itself around that divin…

Identity Theology: Political Correctness with a Halo

By Carlos Wilton

…tion of women has the enthusiastic support of nearly every member of the PCUSA. Ordaining bodies within the PCUSA may not categorically bar women from ordained service. In fact, The church’s 1990 Brief Statement of Faith declares that “the Spirit… calls women and men to all ministries of the Church,” elevating the ordination of women to confessional status. By contrast, when the PCUSA’s General Assembly voted to begin ordaining LGBTQ people severa…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…-like on their concerns about scripture. The year I was coming out to my PCUSA congregation was the same year the denomination had voted to approve the ordination of non-celibate gay clergy, so this was a live discussion. I had a different perspective on it because I got to see how that conversation was playing out in churches that were not very accepting. What I realized was that even though there have been three-plus decades of conversation and…

NOM’s Gallagher: “Don’t Call Me a Bigot!”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lt Lake City this week, she complained about the “relentless torrent of accusations and hatred against anyone who speaks, no matter how civilly, for marriage.” One of those “torrent[s] of… hatred” happened recently as Gallagher testified before a House committee on the Defense of Marriage Act. GetEqual cornered Gallagher in the hallway on the way to the hearing to give her an “Anita Bryant Bigotry Award” for “her work to undermine and overturn pro…

Will Answers in Genesis’ New ‘Ark Park’ Comply with Anti-Discrimination Laws?

By Julie Ingersoll

…nd a statement regarding creation will not be considered, so even the vast numbers of Christian believers who don’t understand their tradition in the narrow way of AiG are not deemed suitable. But potential discrimination in hiring goes beyond religious discrimination. As President and CEO, Answers in Genesis–USA & the Creation Museum, Ken Ham writes and lectures throughout the country on “the relevance and authority of the book of Genesis and how…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…indictive’? Why Trump’s push for more presidential power alarms his foes,” USA Today, October 26, 2023, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/26/donald-trump-presidential-power/71255801007/. [9] Lisa Mascaro, “Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump’s vision,” Associated Press, August 29, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…l as a Gay Pride parade and not nearly as rhythmic as Carnival, several thousand Christian evangelicals from all over the world marched through the streets of Jerusalem honoring the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, or Feast of the Tabernacles, which began Monday and ends Oct. 21. The parade, which the Associated Press called “the latest display of the growing alliance between evangelical Christians and the Jewish state,” was sponsored by The Internationa…