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Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…tivational preacher known for hosting Wall Street Wednesdays and Wonderful Washington Worship meetings, is a member of the American Baptist Convention. Touted as a cross between “Billy Graham and Oprah Winfrey,” the Reverend is author of several books, including Live Like You’re Blessed, A New Dating Attitude, Praying for the Men in Your Life, and her most recent, Moving Up: Dr. Sujay’s Ten Steps to Turning Your Life Around and Getting to the Top….

Evidence Strongly Suggests Trump Was Collaborating with Christian Nationalist Leaders Before January 6th

By Matthew D. Taylor and Bradley Onishi

…the globe, who issued a prophetic decree at the January 5 ramp-up rally in Washington, DC. Another Wagner acolyte, Cindy Jacobs, one of the most recognized and respected charismatic prophets in the world, was present outside the Capitol, leading spiritual warfare efforts among the agitated crowds. But the most overt and widespread NAR-aligned marker on January 6 was the legion of Appeal to Heaven (sometimes called ‘Pine Tree’) flags in the crowds…

Arkansas’s Creationism Bill is Also Motivated by Anti-Trans Bigotry

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ntley regurgitated a fake quote beloved by Christian Nationalists: “George Washington once said, ‘It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible.’ And I couldn’t agree with our first president more; we need to hear the heart of God on issues we are facing today to govern correctly.” Of course, George Washington was famously reticent about religion, refused to take communion the few times he went to church, spurned religious consola…

Have White Evangelicals Finally Lost Control of the Narrative?

By Chrissy Stroop

…January 6 insurrection even in such outlets as The New York Times and The Washington Post about six weeks ago, I suggested we might be seeing a turning point in what perspectives and contexts are included in coverage of evangelicalism. My optimism was tempered and cautious, and it remains so now, but subsequent developments seem to be bearing out that initial contention. In the wake of the racist Atlanta spa murders, for example, my analysis of t…

Religious Left Prepares to Take On Obama Administration

By Daniel Schultz

…left, unhappy with the Obama administration, has organized a conference in Washington this weekend to call on the president to “Be the Obama that Americans thought we elected in 2008.” Led by Rabbi Michael Lerner, the event is officially called “Taking Back Washington From the ‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Realists’: A Strategy Conference for Religious and Secular Progressives,” featuring the likes of evangelical minister Brian McLaren, Rep. Keith Ellison (o…

Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

…n exhortation to work for “change in Washington” and to “send a message to Washington that every life is precious… every life is valuable.” In fact, across the board the speakers emphasized electoral politics: the need to win enough seats to overturn the health care bill; they invoked “states’ rights” and the 10th Amendment in support of Arizona’s controversial immigration law even as they insisted that “we’re not supposed to be talking politics.”…

Ralph Reed’s $30 Million Battle Plan

By Sarah Posner

…Freedom Coalition is hosting its first Conference and Strategy Briefing in Washington starting tomorrow, and he’s billing it as “the conservative event of the year that you don’t want to miss.” He’s got a lot of competition: over the weekend tea partiers will be converging on Washington for the Unite In Action March on DC and FreedomWorks is organizing the 9/12 March. And the following week is the Values Voters Summit, where religious right powerh…

Gun Group That Promotes Militias Thrilled With O’Donnell Victory

By Sarah Posner

…erica, which Rep. Ron Paul has called “the only no compromise gun lobby in Washington,” is thrilled with Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware Senate primary on Tuesday. On its website, the group enthused: The O’Donnell win adds to a string of victories for GOA-backed candidates this year in Senate primaries in Nevada, Kentucky, Utah, Colorado, as well as the non-primary in Florida (where Marco Rubio chased Gov. Charlie Crist out of the pr…

Mercy and Justice Can Meet at the Border

By Michael Brendan Dougherty

…at nations do have a right to regulate their borders. Former Archbishop of Washington DC, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has admitted as much: “The Catholic Church acknowledges and supports the right of a sovereign nation to secure its borders, most particularly at a time in which national security is in question.” Pope John Paul II who publicly talked about a “human right to immigrate,” sometimes spoke of national identity in the same terms used by…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…ounding and history. Here’s how they summarize it in a recent op-ed at the Washington Post: America was founded as a Christian nation; the founders were traditional Christians; the founding documents are biblically based; God has therefore bestowed immense wealth and power on America and given it a mission to spread freedom and religion around the world; but that mission and those blessings are now threatened by the presence of non-Whites, non-Chr…