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Long Before Lying to Congress, Barr’s Views on Church and State Should Have Disqualified Him

By Becky Garrison

…government is the platform upon which religious freedom rests. Without an official policy of secularism, our nation will drift toward theocracy. High government officials who criticize secular government should be asked what their alternative is—religious government? Barr does not seem to grasp that a decent distance between church and state is the only way to ensure the right of every American to engage in the religious activities of their choic…

When the ‘Biblical View’ for Evangelicals Was That Life Begins at Birth

By Jonathan Dudley

…ble (1981), and Koren Jerusalem Bible (2008). And Catholic Bibles, despite official teaching from the Church that there is a right to life from the moment of conception, continued to translate the passage in the traditional way: “miscarriage” or “miscarry” (New Jerusalem Bible, 1985; New American Bible Revised Standard Edition, 2011). The novel translation of Exodus 21:22-23 allowed the founders of the evangelical Right to neutralize previous, Bib…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…ngship, and in doing so, produced nothing short of “the most revolutionary official document in the history of the world,” according to John Neville Figgis. This is no small thing. And, for someone like Holland, a likely partisan of ‘high papalism,’ the first official statement of the rights of the people or popular sovereignty over the pope would be a most inconvenient truth. Another weakness in Holland’s claim that the emergence of “the new suff…

New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

By David R. Brockman

…on of our country” and “provid[e] information to federal, state, and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values.” The WallBuilders ProFamily Legislative Network assists “conservative God-fearing legislators” across the nation by supplying “expert testimony” and screening and drafting legislation. Barton’s radio program/podcast, “WallBuilders Live!,” described as “a daily journey…to capture the ideas of the Foundi…

Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)

By David R. Brockman

…nsion of the insistence on one particular theological point of view as the official, governmental theological point of view, which is totally inappropriate,” said Austin Rabbi Alan Freedman, one of the panelists. That “official theology” has long been evident at the highest reaches of Texas state government. Abbott, a Roman Catholic with Christian nationalist leanings, has made no secret of his opposition to abortion. At a 2016 anti-abortion gathe…

Exclusive: Why Did Chicago Public Schools Just Quietly Drop Transcendental Meditation?

By Aryeh Siegel

…RD was notified by a CPS official that “CPS is no longer allowing for the official Quiet Time Program through David Lynch Foundation to be offered in CPS schools.” But why would CPS quietly drop such a high-profile program? Though CPS decline to elaborate further, a July 26, 2019 article in the Chicago Tribune provides a clue. Hannah Leone’s article includes some disturbing information about the program based on the harrowing recollections, befor…

Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously

By Chrissy Stroop

…e who just rejected anti-racist scholarship as unbiblical to pretend that “official” Southern Baptist Christianity has no connection to racism among America’s white Christians, though of course Mohler would deny that either he or Southern Baptist theology is racist. Reflecting a trend that began roughly in early 2018, when discussion of the concept of Christian nationalism as defined by sociologists Andrew Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry, and their col…

Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer

By Katherine Kelaidis

…njoyed the support of the Serbian Patriarch, the highest-ranking religious official in the country. For those familiar with Orthodox Christianity’s brewing internal conflicts, the Djokovic saga has included an extra dimension: The seeming inability of Orthodoxy’s highest-ranking officials—all of whom agree vaccination is not only permissible, but a moral obligation—to rein in anti-vaccination voices within the Church. It’s a failure that speaks to…

Christian Pol, Attacked for Opposing ‘In God We Trust’ in School, Talks Church and State

By Frederick Clarkson

…hat. But this gets us to a knotty question: How should citizens and public officials approach competing faith claims about matters of public policy? JM: I don’t ordinarily talk about my religious faith when discussing political issues in the Senate. My religious faith shapes who I am and what I believe. But as a public official, I am accountable to the people I serve for the policies I support and the positions that I take. I am on the ballot, not…

Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…ording to two officials.” They “had driven up from the Mexican border, one official said. The official said it was not clear to the federal agents why their team was needed, and why the local SWAT team did not respond.” As I write, the LA Times reports that the kids “begged for police to enter their classroom and save them, repeatedly calling 911, as a team of 19 police officers waited in the corridor for an hour because a commander believed the s…