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How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…he country. And we are seeing some clear signs that they may be willing to use whatever means necessary to protect that ownership. Yes, because now it’s definitely not just about punching above their weight. They have these aggressive networks pushing state-level legislation, they have an even wilder dominionist theology, and they have this incredible unrelenting zeal… We are certainly crossing over into something quite different with this overtly…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…rent goal: restoration. “If you think restoration is impossible that’s because you’re lazy because you’re not willing to read, you don’t read books.” Echoing DeMuth’s concerns about “fertility,” Hazony speaks directly to the—largely male—audience: Young men: get a young woman, join a church, go to a place where the great inheritance is being handed down, […] or join a synagogue. If there is no church like that in your state, move to a different st…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…ets and advertisers all play with the tensions, conflicts and frustrations between black and white people. They use racial antagonism to boost ratings, to draw attention to their products and to keep viewers. We are constantly afflicted by the media with yet another “conversation” between opposing racial viewpoints that yields no light and generates no new ideas. Its only purpose is to increase our consumptive desire for more such interactions. We…

Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community

By Andre E. Key, Walter Isaac, and Tamar Manasseh

…merican spiritual traditions meant, at best, affirming a moral equivalency between enslaved and free persons, so as to disavow the notion that oppressed people’s spiritual traditions were superior in value to the religious faiths of human traffickers. Take Hebrew Israelism, for example, the primary spiritual tradition embraced by the authors of this article. When writers outside of our community add the unique problem of ortho-ethnicity (right peo…

Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle

By Sarah Posner

…th states held that there was no violation of the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. That’s because the law doesn’t “substantially burden” anyone’s religious practice and is one of general applicability that was not targeted at infringing a particular religious practice. To permit religious beliefs to “excuse compliance with otherwise valid laws regulating matters the state is free to regulate,” would, the California Supreme Cour…

Florida Governor Signs Law Defending Educators’ Right to Witness

By Lauri Lebo

…events.” In January 2009, principal Frank Lay and athletic director Robert Freeman were accused of violating the consent decree when “Lay asked Freeman to offer a prayer of blessing during a school-day luncheon for the dedication of a new field house at Pace High School. “Freeman complied with the request and offered the prayer at the event. It appears this was a school-sponsored event attended by students, faculty and community members.” In respo…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…not at the elite, but those on government assistance. It’s surprising because the lyrics betray the title, but it’s not shocking because the American Right has long distracted its rank and file from unprecedented income inequality and insufficient wages by directing their anger to those who are supposedly ruining America by living off its dream. Galvanize support for a trust fund billionaire by pointing to the people who are most vulnerable and l…

Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…have “a problem with religion” while insisting that they’re starting to do better because they let pastors preach sermons at the DNC; or, hilariously, assuring the Catholic public that Catholics won’t go to hell for voting for Democrats. (Note: once you’re associating hell with Democratic support you’re just reinforcing the right-wing Christian frame.) The point is, asserting that “religion is of major importance to many Democrats,” no matter how…

Jennifer’s Body and Why I Like Buffy’s Body Better

By W. Scott Poole

…h century, silent film actress Theda Bara became the archetypal “vamp” who used sex to lure men to their deaths while Adele Farrington, in a pre-Code romp called The Devil’s Bondwoman (1916), portrayed a woman whose sexual appetites were so insatiable that she attracted Satan himself. By the 1940s, a comic book entitled Madame Satan [see image left] told a similar story to adolescents of a seductive woman who, using Satan’s supernatural power, att…

A Jew in Church? No Big Deal

By Benjamin Weiner

…American religious life when an Orthodox Jew can say such a thing, it also betrays a stunning naiveté. The evangelists Cohen seems to enjoy so much, though they might fetishize a Jew, presumably would not reciprocate; Jesus, after all, being the only way to the father. And he has strangely fond words for John Hagee, joining the ranks of shortsighted Jews who refuse to see the profound crackpot anti-Semitism lurking beneath the Texas pastor’s suppo…