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

By Katherine Stewart

…f society, which by their reckoning included government, media, education, business, entertainment, religion, and family. According to the late C. Peter Wagner, a key proponent of the ideology, the responsibility of Christians to take over “whatever molder of culture or subdivision God has placed them in” is really a matter of “taking dominion back from Satan.” That last bit about Satan gets to the throbbing heart of this political ideology. In Ki…

Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?

By Sarah Posner

…sproportionately on issues such as abortion and homosexuality.” Now—as his business partner Tim Phillips heads up tea party astroturf group Americans for Prosperity—he’s burrowing for an opening to convince activists that social and economic issues are linked. He recently described an overlap between tea party activists and his organization on the Christian Broadcasting Network. Religious right activists see that overlap too, but not yet a marriag…

Rapture Fraud?

By Julie Ingersoll

…actions, contends the FFRF, “show that they neither behaved nor conducted business as if they sincerely believed that the world would end on May 21” and constitute “willful deception.” Carving out a space between fraud and protected religious claims, the FFRF makes an important distinction: Camping did not commit deceit and fraud in being wrong about the date of the Rapture; the question to be determined is whether he may have committed deceit or…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…ary white Rhode Islanders to accept this tiny state’s outsized role in the business of African enslavement, let alone Indian enslavement. They don’t enjoy looking backward. They would rather tell you how proud they are that the state’s voters just decided to drop the awkward “…and Providence Plantations” from the state’s official name. Because there were never plantations here, and the name was confusing, they like to say. Except that there were p…

“A Most Ungodly Way to View Religious Freedom”

By Sarah Posner

…ssed SB 1062, a bill that would, if it became law, enshrine the ability of business owners to refuse service to customers based on their sexual orientation. The bill’s sponsors, as I wrote a few weeks ago, fear that the “religious freedom” of business owners is threatened by LGBT people asking them to bake a cake or snap some photographs. Here’s E.J. Montini, a columnist with the Arizona Republic, who says that “extremists in the legislature [are]…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…tianity Today Writer Ken Smith Is Founder of a Company Fined for Deceptive Business Practices; With Child Porn Ties.” The main thrust of the first of the two Post pieces was to disprove the allegations that Jang’s followers considered him a new messiah by calling into question the legitimacy of the CT sources who made these claims. But the attacks in this first response seem mild compared to the piece that followed alleging that Olsen’s co-writer…

The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

By H.A. Hellyer

…, but fail miserably without realizing the local context. This cuts across business, media, and diplomatic sectors, and is invariably due to either the outside actor attempting to interpret what the local scene is all about without actually relating to local interpreters, or else the outside actor deals with the ‘usual suspects.’ Those usual suspects are often drawn from an elite who are local but inevitably drawn from the same cloth as the Wester…

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

By Sarah Posner

…ally didn’t believe in the whole effort but it sure was good for political business.” To seal the deal, Brody has some breaking news: Trump is for a 20-week abortion ban. He’s for defunding Planned Parenthood. Sure, he used to be pro-choice, but he changed his mind on that in 2011—when he was running for president. What was that Brody wrote about that “homosexual” Mehlman? That he “really didn’t believe in the whole effort but it sure was good for…

Are Kosher Delis Like Catholic Hospitals?

By Sarah Posner

…e of the Kosher Deli. Once upon a time, a new law was proposed so that any business that serves food must serve pork. There is a narrow exception for kosher catering halls attached to synagogues since they serve mostly members of that synagogue, but kosher delicatessens are still subject to the mandate. The Orthodox Jewish community, whose members run kosher delis and many other restaurants and groceries besides expresses its outrage at the new go…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…evelopers of approved projects the sales tax paid by visitors on admission tickets, food, gift sales and lodging costs. Developers have 10 years to reach the 25 percent threshold. Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says there are concerns over the project, but it’s too early to tell whether the proposed business incentives would be unconstitutional in that it would involve excessive entanglement with r…