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A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…ent with strong religious beliefs. Trump cannot even pretend to qualify. A number of analysts, particularly liberal ones, see it as the big reveal, that the Christian right is right, not Christian. The political right has captured the Christians, not the reverse. It’s about politics, class and honor, not God. Arlie Hochschild, in her new book, Strangers in Their Own Land, based on her ethnography of Calcasieu Parish in Southern Louisiana, explores…

RDPulpit: On the Betrayal of King’s Legacy and Culture Wars

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…t of its lineage to United Methodist Women meeting in a church basement in Dallas, Texas. What has moved history and expanded democracy has been prophetic minorities willing to risk life and limb to seize the public’s imagination and transform politics and public policy. The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act are all testaments to this tradition. The “Reason” document…

Not Easily Broken, Not Easily Viewed

By Jonathan L. Walton

…broadcasting. This is why I went to the movie theatre hoping to enjoy the Dallas preacher’s latest film Not Easily Broken. But rather than being entertained, I felt overwhelmed by melodramatic moralizing and easily anticipated plot lines plucked from the most regressive aspects of Bishop Jakes’ highly-gendered and racialized worldview. Like the less-sophisticated sermons and writings of Jakes’ in the 1990s, this movie was chock-full of familiar a…

TD Jakes Pushes for Rehab of Prisoners

By Jonathan L. Walton

…imprisoned persons walked across the stage of the Potter’s House Church in Dallas donning a green cap and gown. They joined the ranks of nearly a thousand ex-inmates who have graduated from the 12-month Texas Offenders Re-entry Initiative program (TORI) since 2005. Begun as a reentry mentoring ministry by famed televangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes, the now public/private partnership program seeks to curb recidivism by offering a wide range of services…

Perry Prayer Event “Getting Traction” with Religious Right Elites

By Sarah Posner

…re over the participants’ statements and beliefs, yesterday Perry told the Dallas Morning News: I’m sure that through my elections in the past that there have been some groups that have endorsed me publicly, that I appreciate their endorsements, but their endorsements of me doesn’t mean I endorse what they believe in or what they say. That misrepresents the issue, obviously. The AFA, for example, is not just endorsing Perry; it is paying for an ev…

Starbucks With a Smile, and a Shot of Politics

By Peter Laarman

…so harshly persecuted, even by their fellow Dissenters. Prior to the 1979 Dallas putsch within the Southern Baptist Convention, almost all U.S. Baptists were strong on the need to resist coerced belief. They hated creeds and formulas. Their great paladin of “soul liberty” and “soul competency” was a Mississippian, Edgar Young Mullins, who presided for many years at the SBC’s flagship seminary. Here is the workplace parallel for self-respecting p…

Meet a Renegade Southern Baptist for LGBT Equality

By Sarah Posner

…ife, a lot of hairspray in her hair.” Now, he and his wife live outside of Dallas, where he pastors a house church, works as a hospital chaplain, and volunteers to help death row prisoners and on “queer issues here on the ground.” When the issue of equality in immigration reform came on his radar, he said, “it’s painfully obvious to me. You don’t bust up people’s families.” Hood’s “road to Damascus” moment at Southern was when a respected mentor (…

American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

By Mary E. Hunt

…civil disobedience and goes to jail to help stop war or nuclear weapons. A number of the questions are clearly designed to elicit answers the Vatican knows full well it won’t like. The data will provide the pretext for concluding that the decline in numbers in progressive groups is a result of their lack of obedience and conformity to the men’s rules. Solution: tighten up the ranks. Enter the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, the alte…

The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth

By Carlos Wilton

…ile, a man slumped in a car seat who’s clearly not long for this world. In Dallas, the good guys forsake their guns entirely, sending a whirring bomb-disposal robot to reverse its usual mission and blow up the bad guy in a kamikaze attack. Viral social-media videos thrust the Baton Rouge and St. Paul images into the consciousness of millions. In quick succession, the raw, unedited smartphone videos gave America something Hollywood has never shown…

Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…of the American Right are already owning the term “terrorist.” At CPAC in Dallas, “We’re all domestic terrorists” was flashed across a screen behind the stage, to the cheers of the audience. It’s a new, horrifying version of the anti-abortion murder redux—brought to us by the same people whose incendiary rhetoric inspired the bombings of abortion clinics. By claiming that medical personnel who perform abortions were committing murder, the right-w…