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“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local

By Frederick Clarkson

…election fraud. (For those more professionally inclined, they recommend an online course produced by former Rep. Bill Redmond (R-NM), a former top official of Citizen Link, now called the Family Policy Alliance). One session featured Jeff Johnston, a culture and policy analyst at the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, whose presentation was titled, “LGBT Agenda in the Public Schools, and What We Can Do About It.” Other featured speakers i…

Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

By Mary E. Hunt

…ected to parishes, to keep their phones open. At their last meeting in June 2021, the US Catholic Bishops did not discuss the Synod at all, even though they knew it was scheduled to start four months later. They’ve set aside a full forty-five minutes on the agenda of their November 2021 meeting to discuss what’s promoted as the most life-changing process for the Catholic community worldwide since Vatican II. There is a deep disconnect here between…

What the Latest ‘God’s Not Dead’ Gets Egregiously Wrong — and Right — About Homeschooling

By R.L. Stollar

…(Cracked.com has a humorous summary of the entire series here.) The latest installment, We The People, was released on October 4, 2021 to a limited theater audience and on October 22, 2021 to streaming via Pure Flix. The movie was a flop. While evangelical movie review sites like Plugged In claim that it “provokes believers to ask some critically important questions,” even they criticize the caricatures of liberals and progressives, calling the mo…

Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…uary 6 uprising on the U.S. capital are now discovering. As of mid-November 2021 there were 650 cases being brought to the courts. Some have already resulted in sentences of multiple years in prison. Today, in fact, the “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, who famously ranted from the podium in the US Capitol Senate chambers, was sentenced to 41 months in prison. These court cases are chilling reminders that armed insurrection against the US government…

Painting of Jesus holding the US Constitution surrounded by Americans throughout its history.

Columbus Day Celebrates a Christian Doctrine That Authorized Centuries of Violence — and Continues to Threaten American Democracy

By Robert P. Jones

…, more than a dozen states and over 130 cities have adopted the holiday. In 2021, President Joe Biden became the first sitting president to issue an official proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Amid rapid demographic changes—today only 42% of Americans identify as White and Christian—and cultural reckoning with the legacy of racism in our nation’s history, replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day would represent a meaningful step f…

Is the Growing Anti-Pope ‘Rad-Trad’ Community Poised to Become ‘Qatholics’? History Isn’t Encouraging

By Joshua P Hevert and Thomas Lecaque

…rch-organized event; giving speeches on the “Great Reset” conspiracy in May 2021; giving an apocalyptic speech on “Man’s War with God” for a conference in Venice in July, 2021; a condemnation of Traditiones Custodes also in July; a video message for “No Fear Day,” an anti-Covid restriction event in Turin, entitled “Warning on the Coming Globalist Dictatorship.” These are QAnon-linked conspiracies, something Viganò uses frequently. Not only does Th…

‘We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis’: A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S.

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e die Demokratie gefährdet Annika Brockschmidt Rowohlt Taschenbuch October, 2021 Brockschmidt is a German author, journalist, and scholar. Her new book, Amerikas Gotteskrieger: Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet (roughly translated as “America’s Godly Warriors: How Religious Right Endangers Democracy”) was released in Germany on October 19.* We chatted about her new book and the Christian Nationalism plaguing America from her unique…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…s policy-making circles, nor are they represented in UNAMA’s leadership. In 2021, Sharbat Gula received a welcome to Rome by the Italian government. While this resettlement may seem like a positive outcome from McCurry’s photo, during the few interviews that have featured her, Sharbat Gula points out that she needed to be resettled precisely because McCurry’s photo made her a target of the Taliban regime “who don’t believe women should appear in t…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…t a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in 2022; as well as dozens of other instances of vigilante violence against religious minorities. And, of course, it was on full display during the 2021 Capitol insurrection two years ago. Given the dynamics present in the United States today (just look at last week’s CPAC), we can expect Christian nationalist violence to increase in the future. Paradoxically, the thumping Christian nationalist political cand…

January 6 protester holds giant image of White Jesus in a Make America Great Again cap.

America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War

By Nilay Saiya

…istration’s systematic assault on democratic norms and institutions and the 2021 insurrection at the capitol. No longer is the United States the world’s oldest continuous democracy, according to Polity. Political science research has shown that anocracies are most likely to experience civil war in the first few years of their durations and that transitions into anocracy from democracy (as opposed to transitions into anocracy from autocracy) leave…