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Call it ‘Christian Globalism’: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part III

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ims of the groups themselves. We have no way to independently verify these numbers, so they should be used advisedly. Simply put, the global vision of the NAR is based on their understanding of the Great Commission text of Matthew 28:18-20, with an emphasis on “discipling nations” (28:19). International apostolic networks are therefore necessary for the apostles to lead the five-fold ministry (Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher) whic…

The Year in Reproductive Justice: 2015 Summary

By Harry F. Knox

…equences. The first is Whole Women’s Health v. Cole, which originates from Texas, challenging a restrictive law enacted by state legislators in 2013. Two-thirds of Texas’ abortion clinics would close without intervention from the Supreme Court, leaving thousands of women and their families with nowhere to turn. The other is a series of cases challenging contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The law allows for religious organization…

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…

McCullen v. Coakley and the Meaning of Protests

By Sarah Posner

…ss to abortion largely went unnoticed, and thus popularly unopposed, until Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis’s filibuster brought attention to the strategy.”) But even as he is right that this “professionalization” has occurred, harassment and even violence against abortion providers haven’t gone away. As these statistics on violence and disruption of abortion providers compiled by the National Abortion Federation show, such incidents have decreased, a…

Taking the Right-Wing Echo Chamber to the Halls of Congress

By Lauri Lebo

…ernative to Barton’s interpretation, or even someone who might just give a straight generally accepted interpretation of legal history, would only interfere with the reality that she and other right-wing Christians have been trying to create. What reality is that? One only has to look to Texas. Barton was an advisor to the Texas Board of Education and is one of the individuals most responsible for rewriting the state’s social studies curriculum to…

Why SBC’s Russell Moore Wants Conservative Evangelicals to Be Nicer

By Christine Wicker

…quent blogger, Bart Barber pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, told me that the change isn’t as stark as it seems: “From what I’ve been able to see, Richard Land and Russell Moore are in exactly the same place on issues.” Perhaps. But some things do look different. When Farmersville was recently embroiled in a bitter controversy over whether a Muslim cemetery could open in the little North Texas town, the town’s two Baptist past…

Manslaughter Conviction of Brittney Poolaw Represents Pattern of White Christian Policing of Black and Brown Women’s Bodies

By Chrissy Stroop

…s as it once was. And, as the case of Brittney Poolaw shows, it isn’t just Texas’s “heartbeat” law and its pernicious influence on other state legislatures that belie such claims. On October 6, Oklahoma’s Comanche County Court sentenced the 21-year-old Poolaw, a member of the Comanche Nation, to four years in state prison on a first-degree manslaughter conviction for miscarrying her fetus. The prosecution based its case on the fact that the fetus…

Thinking Clearly about Anti-Mormon Prejudice

By Joanna Brooks

…, but withdrew the invitation when she found out they were LDS. A man in a Texas college town writes that one mother at the neighborhood pool instructed her children not to play with his Mormon kids. Another woman in Texas remembers that her LDS congregation was banned from participating in a community-wide Christmas event and that non-Church members once barged into Sunday meetings shouting that Mormons were cult members and devil worshippers. A…

A Recent Local Controversy Reveals the Theocratic Heart of ‘Project Blitz’

By Frederick Clarkson

…underappreciated stories of our time: the politics of Dominionism, which a number of scholars have described as the driving ideology of the white evangelical protestant wing of the Christian right. Christian nationalism, the idea that America was founded as a Christian nation, and that this must somehow be restored, was once little appreciated outside the Christian right and a relative handful of dedicated scholars and journalists. But it has beco…

Rick Perry’s Kingmaker, and David Brooks Wakes Up

By Sarah Posner

…and giant inanities that are our political culture. And look who’s rising (Texas Governor Rick Perry, with several profiles presaging his presidential run, but not his Christian right bona fides) and who’s falling (Godfather Pizza exec and Americans for Prosperity favorite Herman Cain, with campaign staff defections coming “after weeks of swirling rumors between Cain’s staff and volunteers in the Hawkeye State accusing each other of affairs, homos…