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Kirk Cameron’s Monumental Reveals Subtle Influence of Christian Reconstructionism

By Julie Ingersoll

…itionalism; explores “God’s hand in the founding of America,” with Puritan New England serving as the model of the application of biblical law to society; challenges separation of church and state, with Reconstructionist “decentralized” theonomy (and the sphere sovereignty described above); and promotes Reconstructionist views on education, stopping just short of advocating the elimination of “government schools” (an unusual term used almost exclu…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…criptural witness on conflict. On issue after issue throughout the Old and New Testaments, conflicts are not synthesized, not transformed, often not even resolved peacefully. Instead, they are recorded for posterity, sometimes in the most direct terms. Just to name one example, the same Paul who urged the Corinthians to be reconciled to one another said of “Judaizers” advocating for circumcision in Galatia, “How I wish they would finish the job!”…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n the equal protection of the laws. These provisions announced an entirely new and altogether bold conception of democratic citizenship in a post-enslavement Republic. Religious groups on all sides of the issue were especially vocal in their various and conflicting advocacies. But the end result was plain: no State can do what the Federal government says you cannot do to an individual citizen. States rights do not trump individual rights. And ther…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…might expect but were ultimately unpersuasive, despite the fact that other New World powers of that time—the French and Spanish—had pursued amalgamation with some degree of success. The cause of amalgamation suffered a major setback during the 1820s when it was discovered that a couple of natives enrolled at a special mission school in Cornwall, Connecticut, were consorting with, even marrying, local white girls. The school’s managers, led by the…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

…gies, philosophies, languages, medical therapies, diets, rites of passage, codes of conduct, aesthetic norms, artistic conventions, and technologies furnish entire communities with a shared sense of identity and the ritual/theological grammars required to guide their common life and transmission of humanity from one generation to the next. If God’s good nature is reflected in the slave trade, what was the Devil up to? American ignorance of Vodou b…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…and lived with evangelical Christians’ views on porn. Despite the initial news coverage and subsequent outrage, Johnson’s pronouncements on porn and Covenant Eyes haven’t received as much attention as reports documenting and raising the alarm about his anti-democratic promotion of 2020 election lies in an effort to overturn the results and keep Trump president. This focus is understandable given Johnson’s ascension to a position that makes him se…

The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for the ‘President-King’—The Right’s Prize for 50 Years of Planning

By Annika Brockschmidt

…club founded the year Reagan took office, was an important driver of this new ideology. In Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive (Oxford, 2022) historians Stephen Skowronek, John A. Dearborn and Desmond King track the gradual rise of unitary executive theory over the decades: The theory gestated in the conservative legal movement and in the Federalist Society. Its cutting edge has been sharpened during Repub…

History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

By Peter J. Paris

…miraculous as Nelson Mandela being released from prison, presiding over a new constitution, and becoming the first president of the new South Africa. None of us could have predicted that happening in our lifetime. Nor could any of us have predicted an African American becoming president of the United States in our lifetime. Briefly, I would like to say two things about gender in this presidential campaign. I consider Sarah Palin’s appointment as…

Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)

By Becky Garrison

…ent Books) by Nadia Bolz-Weber For that holy hipster friend in search of a new kind of a/theistic Christianity who doesn’t want to go back and read the works of Phyllis Trible, John Boswell, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, bell hooks, and other pioneering scholars who’ve written on the intersection of human sexuality and Christianity for decades. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Vintage paperback issued in 2019) by Anand Gi…

The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie

By Bradley Onishi

…ans who disrupted the peaceful transfer of power and almost dismantled our republic through a violent coup attempt. However, for those at CPAC—and millions more across the nation—he’s a martyr in the story founded on the Big Lie; the story that pits them against the godless interlopers who’ve stolen ‘their’ country. Videos show Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene praying inside the cage with Straka while onlookers recite prayers and sob in the background….