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Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

…mostly focused. https://twitter.com/NikSeattle/status/1537189780579942401?s=20&t=C1LEqRtrWU2FcxnEO_kABA No, those are directed primarily at a couple of incendiary comments Boebert recently made to a church audience that have circulated in viral videos, prompting many Twitter users to insist that her views fall afoul of “true” Christian beliefs. In the first instance, Boebert told the church crowd at Charis Christian Center in Colorado Springs that…

Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…s, and how he would spin all that if he did face general election voters. *This post originally incorrectly referred to the site as LifeSiteNews….

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…to give help got hurt themselves. Others have relatives now working on the site, rebuilding the World Trade Center. How does an imam approach this? How do I, as an American and a Muslim, deal with what people claiming my religion did to us—New Yorkers, Americans, human beings? How do I explain that I was scared because my city was attacked, but I was also scared because people might blame me? I tried to rush down to help, but by the time I got fur…

Do Not Arrest the Pope: New Atheists’ Call for the Pope’s Arrest Isn’t Likely to Produce Justice

By Eric Reitan

…instructed to always report sex abuse cases to local authorities, Vatican officials reiterated there insistence that the 2001 document’s call for “pontifical secrecy” extends only to internal Church proceedings and was never meant to bar church officials or victims from reporting abuse to local authorities. This insistence is given some credibility by the Vatican’s endorsement of a policy, introduced by U.S. bishops in 2002, which explicitly requ…

Christian Right Aims for Tea Party

By Sarah Posner

…example, at the Values Voters Summit last fall and in the new conservative site tvTownhall, the religious right seems intent on drinking some tea. “During the Reagan and Bush eras,” Waters writes, “Christian Right movement leaders such as the late megachurch pastor D. James Kennedy held rallies with names such as ‘Reclaiming America for Christ.’ So far, it seems the Tea Partiers are mostly interested in reclaiming America for the Chamber of Commer…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…ent that is extremely radical. Let’s talk about that for a second. On your site, there’s an unofficial “What Can I Do?” document, which says that Project 2025 defends three pillars of power: Christianity, Whiteness, and patriarchy. Why is it important to notice the Christianity part of that equation? Many of the authors of Project 2025 are Christian nationalists who believe in a very [fringe] vision of Christianity. Essentially, they want the Bibl…

Why Did So Many Black Women Die? Jonestown at 35

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…mpiled at the “Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple” site). Thrash and Leslie Wagner–Wilson are currently the only two black women survivors to publish books on their experiences. Wagner-Wilson managed to escape Jonestown before the massacre with several of her family members. As early African American members of the church when it was based in Indiana, Thrash and her sister tithed 20% of their income to Peoples Temple. Thous…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…bers’ blogs that have cropped up since 2007, starting with SGM Survivors—a site where ex-members have shared numerous accounts of SGM’s cult-like atmosphere, including cover-ups of spousal abuse and sexual abuse of children as young as two. And in October 2012, three people whose stories were first shared on SGM Survivors formalized their complaints by becoming the first plaintiffs in the current class action lawsuit, charging the ministry and its…

Is The Episcopal Church Driving Drunk?

By J. Terry Todd

…in the days before she was booked. Cook is a suspended bishop now, and Episcopal Church officials have begun disciplinary procedures that will probably lead to her firing. Is the Episcopal Church itself on trial, right alongside Bishop Cook? It sure seems that way. One of the story’s inevitable themes is the charge of church leaders’ hypocrisy and ineptitude, a charge sounded even (especially?) by those inside the church itself. “I’d like to know…

The Happening and the Gospel of Bruce Springsteen

By Diane Winston

…e headship in a traditional Christian family. Lest you think io9 (a sci-fi site) goes off the deep end, look at the interview with Shyamalan in Scientific American. Here the director sounds less a candidate for the Promise Keepers than for a drum circle: There is something that binds everything. To keep looking for that, that drive is almost the holy grail. I can totally relate to that on an intuitive level. That’s somehow tied to some mystical th…