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What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…the Ziklag Group gathering, which took place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Dallas in mid-June. Named after a Philistine town that biblical King David used as a retreat from which to mount his battle against the Amalekites, the Ziklag Group is affiliated with United in Purpose, a data, networking, and messaging organization that’s played a substantial role in turning out the conservative Christian vote in past elections. You can get a sense of the…

#BlackLivesMatterStill: We Cannot Let Anyone Else Define Our Movement

By Wil Gafney

…le’ is not the cry of #BlackLivesMatter.” The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile are outrageous as were the deaths of Rekia Boyd and Sandra Bland and Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin and so many, too many others before them. I cannot be certain that there will be justice for Alton and Philando. Before the murders of the officers, media outlets were already beginning the defaming of the dead, continuing the dehumanization not sufficiently…

Texas Pastor: Christians Claiming “Religious Persecution” Are Actually Just “Selfish”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…tor at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, did in his Monday column for the Dallas Morning News. Despite the conservative and legal hand-wringing, it’s not actually hard to tell the difference between “religious persecution and selfishness,” he writes. He asks readers (particularly Christians who may be quick to side with “religious” business-owners who don’t want to serve LGBTQ people) to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. It’s a simple, classic…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…(down eight percent in seven years, to 70.6 percent), and the rise in the number of Americans identifying as atheist, agnostic, and otherwise religiously unaffiliated (up six points in seven years, to 22.8 percent). Greg Smith, Associate Director of Research at the Pew Research Center, called the pace of the continued growth of the religiously unaffiliated “really remarkable.” The number of Americans identifying with no religion grew by 19 millio…

The Sordid Past of Ralph Reed

By Sarah Posner

…he e-mail, it became pretty obvious he was putting money before God,” said Phil Dacosta, a Georgia Christian Coalition member who had initially backed Reed. “We are righteously casting him out.” Among those e-mails was one from Reed to Abramoff in late 1998: “I need to start humping in corporate accounts! . . . I’m counting on you to help me with some contacts.” Within months, Abramoff hired him to lobby on behalf of the Mississippi Band of Chocta…

All the Belly-‘eich’-ing

By Sarah Posner

…m disappear. As I wrote about Duck Dynasty, A&E created the conditions for Phil Robertson to play the victim, by offering up a sanitized version of him, which led to shock->calls for his head->predictable complaints of persecution of Christians. If A&E had showed us the real Phil Robertson on the air, events would have played out much differently. On the other hand, citizens who oppose LGBT rights do have to comply with any laws protecting those r…

Is ‘Beyond Doubt’ Correct About the Decline of Religion? Yes… Sort Of.

By Lucas McCracken

…selves. Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman & Ryan T. Cragun NYU Press May, 2023 However, sociologists of religion Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan Cragun insist in their new book, Beyond Doubt: the Secularization of Society, that “Secularization is happening. Secularization is real. It’s beyond doubt.” Relying on surveys of religious life from around the world, Kasselstrand, Zuckerman,…

Communion or Disunion?

By Mary E. Hunt

…n the situation. But what I find tragic is the testimony of Catholics like Phil Donahue. At a recent Dignity Convention, he spoke movingly of being that relative in the pew over whom family members climb to go to Communion. He has been taught by the institutional Church that his divorce, remarriage (of thirty years), and lack of an annulment render him ineligible to receive Communion. Says who? The question is who would teach people to refrain fro…

Pro-Life Rift in Ohio: Boon or Bust for Pro-Choice Movement?

By Katie Toth

…io has become for anti-choice organizers, where pro-choice senators are outnumbered by a ratio of 2-to-1. “It’s the strategy they disagree about, it’s not the goal,” she notes. “This is really… an indicator that in the last election, large anti-choice majorities were elected to the Ohio house and senate. People who want to outlaw abortion in our state have seen a real opportunity.” Gonidakis believes that Ohio has had a “banner year for the pro-li…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…married in first month; Lutheran priests barred from officiating More than 800 same-sex couples were married in March after marriage equality went into effect on the first of the month; 770 had already been in civil partnerships. The Lutheran Evangelical Church has decreed that priests are not permitted to marry same-sex couples and some bishops warned that those who do would face “consequences.” From a March 1 story: In spite of the church rulin…