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Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…t Politico republished: The church—which ought to be in our view far more central to the life of the community—has been displaced by the public school as the center for activity, the center for what goes on in the community. It is certainly our hope that churches would continue, no matter what the environment—whether there’s government funding through tax credits or vouches or some other mechanism, or whatever it may be—that more and more churches…

Conventional Wisdom: RNC/DNC Giving God a Bad Name?

By Peter Laarman

…as it dispatches Rahm Emanuel to make nice with the very same fat cats Warren denounces; that lurches to proclaim Jerusalem the one and only capital of Israel even when it knows how catastrophically wrongheaded this is to the cause of justice and peace in the Middle East; that is quite obviously afraid to talk candidly about grinding poverty in America for fear of shattering the illusion that we’re all just middle-class folks about to recover full…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…ever shared a cohesive reality. Worldviews, structural systems, lived consequences—these have always been unevenly felt. And so the binary of my mattering and your not collapses into another one: I’m in the real world, and you’re not. Indeed, the movie asks us to think about simulation theory by posing exactly two questions: how does a simulation theorist deal with someone in a false world? How might we do the same? This is an old problem in relig…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…ntrol. And then rapidly, the gun lobby, conservative politicians, Second Amendment absolutists, and the rest find every conceivable other possible thing to focus on, starting with “thoughts and prayers” and moving on to hardening school buildings. The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where the shooter used an AR-15-style weapon he’d purchased from the gun company Daniel Defense, has followed the same pattern—but with a rec…

AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…oportionate number of mass shootings in the US are committed—has become a central part of White Christian nationalist iconography, as well as a stark expression of the violent ideology behind it. On January 6, 2021 a banner with the slogan “God Guns and Guts Made in America, Let’s Keep all Three,” was carried by insurrectionists storming the Capitol. Yet despite all this, Republicans aren’t shy about their reverence for the AR-15. In fact, members…

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…the depth and breadth of his views and the reasons for his crime. At his sentencing Roeder said that in murdering Dr. Tiller, he believed he was acting to enforce “God’s Law.” Roeder, as part of his statement to the court, read from the posthumously published book by Rev. Paul Hill, a Christian Reconstructionist who viewed himself as a “Phineas Priest”—a kind of biblical vigilante assassin—who was executed for the murder of a Florida abortion pro…

Gay and Lesbian Candidates Win Primary Victories

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ayor of Palm Springs, will face Republican Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack in California’s 45 Congressional District race. Bono angered the gay and lesbian community when she voted against a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, even though Bono argued that her concern was Congress would undermine the military’s study process by passing the measure. In other California races three candidates, Victory Fund reports that “Toni Atkins (Dist 76), Rich Gordon (…

‘Moral and Religious Views’ and Proposition 8

By Daniel Cox

…are not a “rational basis” to deny same-sex couples the right to marry in California. A new major public opinion survey conducted by our firm, Public Religion Research Institute, provides a new look at the shifting climate of public opinion in California and the moral and religious motivations of those who supported and opposed the measure. Although supporters of Proposition 8 are already working to appeal the ruling through the federal courts, t…

Everyone Should Know the Story of Cary Crall

By Joanna Brooks

…tter-Day Saints, twenty-one year old Cary Crall returned home to Temecula, California, in July 2008, just in time for the beginnings of the Church’s intense campaign to pass Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California. Neither the campaign nor the rationale he was hearing from fellow Mormons in support of Proposition 8 sat well with Crall. In August 2008, he left California for Church-owned Brigham Young University, where he resumed his…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

Last month, when strikers from Southern California arrived in Bentonville, Arkansas to protest Wal-Mart’s labor practices with reggae beats, pots and pans, and a Latin American-inflected protest culture, it became clear to onlookers that America’s superstore was no longer the small family business that Sam Walton had founded and grown in the cradle of the anti-labor culture of Southern evangelicaldom. But it’s also become clear that Wal-Mart’s ow…