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Women in Combat and the Priesthood: A Response to Mary Hunt

By Marian Ronan

On January 24, feminist theologian and activist Mary E. Hunt wrote here at RD about the relationships between the possible ordination of women in the Catholic Church and the recent Defense Department decision to allow women in combat. Hunt begins by expressing her ambivalence about the inclusion of women in combat and the priesthood: “I reject combat as much as I oppose sexism,” Hunt tells us, “and the hierarchical, clerical priestly model of the…

Chauvin Verdict isn’t a Turning Point in Equal Justice, But it Does Suggest a New Political Norm

By John Stoehr

…edibility the GOP once had with respectable white people was spent down on January 6. It was bankrupted the day the Senate Republicans acquitted the traitor. That exhaustion of credibility is coupled with replenished credibility in the multi-racial corps of activists working broadly under the banner of Black Lives Matter. Even as the Fox fascists accused the Minneapolis jury of caving to violent threats by a “woke mob,” respectable white people sa…

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

By Sarah Posner

…ed out to him. But he still maintained that Giglio was “bullied” and that “January 21, 2013 may go down in history, as the day Americans lost their most important freedom—their freedom of conscience.” Among Lyons’ critics (like David Sessions* in post titled “you’ve got to be kidding, Gabe Lyons”) were evangelicals like Andrew Marin. But, unlike Lyons, Marin’s not exactly a member of what might be termed the “new” evangelical elite, and the evang…

Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

By Chrissy Stroop

…ce of “triggering the libs.” Apart from dunking on the “biblical comma,” a number of Twitter users, including RD contributor Andrew Seidel, pointed out that the Bible contains verses that legitimate the practice of slavery. https://twitter.com/AndrewLSeidel/status/1417093726346874885?s=20 The funny thing in this regard is that Strachan, an occasional contributor to Tim Keller’s The Gospel Coalition and a classic Calvinist theobro, is known to pref…

Whatever Happens with ‘Roe’ It’ll Be The Consequence of Six Conservative Justices’ Belief in Authoritarian Lies

By John Stoehr

…-only power—and it should be seen in the same authoritarian context as the January 6 insurrection. Indeed, the white evangelical Protestants who’ve been pushing the anti-abortion movement forward are the same ones who’ve threatened to punish any Republican who dares distance himself from Donald Trump’s failed coup d’état. To the authoritarians, loyalty to the collective is far more important than loyalty to the United States. Sharing control over…

Goodbye ‘Roe,’ Hello Violence and an Out-of-Control Judiciary

By Andrew L. Seidel

…wrong? It’s tempting to say that they learned nothing from the violence on January 6th, but that assumes that the lesson would be peaceful. They learned a different lesson. The Constitution was subverted with judicial inaction. That’s how broken our courts are. This was only possible because the Fifth Circuit is overrun with Trump judges. Captured, infested, overwhelmed—packed. The Supreme Court was only able to gut Roe by sitting on its hands bec…

Strange Bedfellows: The American Far-Right and Today’s Jihad Do Have Something in Common — Just Not What You Think

By Suzanne Schneider

In the immediate aftermath of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, some commentators seized upon a new way to grasp the insurrectionists: the individuals involved weren’t just political rivals but terrorists—a term that’s been so inextricably linked to Islam in the post-9/11 American imaginary that it cannot be neutrally deployed. The Vanilla ISIS memes came quickly on the heels of this new insight, even as critics cautioned against this…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…organizational rebranding that might make it more palatable to donors. In January, Exodus president Alan Chambers made a controversial appearance at the Gay Christian Network, calling the group’s openly gay executive director Justin Lee a “brother in Christ” and admitting that most Exodus members don’t experience a change in their sexual orientation through their involvement with the ministry. (The appearance was controversial on both sides. Cham…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…gside slavery apologist Doug Wilson at a conference on sexuality. In early January of this year he was appointed to the Steering Council of the Conservative Baptist Network, and he continues to appear at evangelical homeschool events, with a recent appearance at “The Homeschool of the Future” summit in April—a who’s who of far-right evangelical homeschool leaders, where once again Baucham appeared to be the token Black speaker. I was told God woul…

Where Are the Pro-Life Reactions to the Romney/Stericycle Story?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…whose company makes the morning after pill, and which published a piece in January calling Stericycle a “medical waste giant allied with the abortion industry” didn’t turn up anything when I did a search for “Romney” and “Stericycle,” and the story wasn’t in their top headlines. Jill Stanek? Again, no mention in the top headlines and a site search turned up nothing. World Magazine, which is currently taking a critical stance toward the National A…