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Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…l racism, even when controlling for a range of other factors like education, gender, region, party affiliation, etc. There I concluded: There is no evidence that higher church attendance has any mitigating effect on racist attitudes; if anything, the opposite is true…. For White evangelical Protestants, holding racist views is nearly four times as predictive of White evangelical Protestant identity among frequent church attenders as among infreque…

Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ossible.” “The education I received at Wheaton suggested so,” she continued, but, in her view, the “ominous overtones of evangelical complicity in racism and sexism cloaked in theological language [suggest otherwise].” This is particularly true now that discrepancies between how Hawkins and other professors have been treated have surfaced. Faculty brain drain Laura’s observations are of a piece with physicist and public intellectual Karl Giberson’…

Right Wingers Say “Gay” is Out, But Try Putting “Unnatural Vice” On a Bumper Sticker

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of their gay and lesbian brothers and sisters puts them at odds with — well, wait, no they won’t be shocked at all. Not any more shocked than I am that this crowd denies the existence of the many gay and lesbian Christians who go to church each Sunday (and perhaps on Wednesdays and whenever the church is open). The good news here is that “gay” is apparently no longer a strong enough slur that a completely new frame is having to be set for the de…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ry to convince others of what shade of evangelical I was. But for so many of my friends and family members who hold tightly to both evangelical theology and some variety of evangelical culture, this is too great an acquiescence. For current evangelicals, then, it’s important that the rest of us begin to see and understand the differences between the various shades of evangelicalism as a means of ensuring that their voice, and the voices of religio…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…[7] From 1993 to 2023, Russia’s population has, in fact, declined by over 4,000,000 people.[8] Exacerbated by emigration trends, war efforts, and declining birth rates, Russia’s current population decline indicates, from the Kremlin’s standpoint, a crisis of the nation and threatens Russia’s position as a global superpower.[9] In this context, Putin’s rallying cry of traditional family values is not surprising at all. In fact, it’s so familiar and…

A Question for Hobby Lobby Supporters…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…would be a huge hassle and may make it impossible for you to run a business, but come on, if the convictions are inviolable they’re inviolable. If there’s a difference, what is it? The best answer I’ve seen to my question is from the Catholic theologians’ amicus brief, which likens it to the difference between giving someone legal tender to do with whatever they will, and giving someone a voucher for a designated purpose. The brief draws an analog…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…Some would make it so that you have to be completely on board with point X, Y, and Z in order to even count as an atheist. As a former fundamentalist Christian, I understand that impulse, but I am surprised by how pervasive it is within organized atheism. I read about a recent study of Finnish atheists and religionists in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion that found that the concept of God had as powerful an emotional force…

Fasting and Faithy Friends of Convenience

By Sarah Posner

…ous person would want to vote for them. Religious people think about policy, too, and suggesting that they prefer some God talk to a Democratic Party with the backbone to stand up to Paul Ryan is, I would imagine, more than a bit insulting. But let’s not delude ourselves into lamenting the administration’s apparent diss of Jim Wallis. After all, liberal religious activists have long bristled at the Democrats’ embrace of certain religious figures w…

Pope Francis Has Painted Himself into a Corner on Women Deacons

By Mary E. Hunt

…ination to the diaconate, is a direct route to the presbyterate, episcopacy, and, de facto, the papacy. The other, naming women as deaconesses but giving them no authority or jurisdiction, is the ladder that goes nowhere. My expectation—and I have longed to be proven wrong by the kyriarchal church but it has not happened—is that Pope Francis will steer women up the ladder that goes nowhere in terms of decision-making or jurisdiction. That would be…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…ties make choices all the time. The history of our species is amazing: fire, numbers, alphabets or pictographic language, medicine, architecture, money and banking, art, music, laws etc. Choices got us there. We are still making choices both as individuals and societies. Not all of them are good—but, we can change the bad choices, we hope. The children’s series that Montgomery helped to create put readers in exactly that position, again and again….