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Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…noia about secular culture has mutated and spread to the broader Christian Right, a movement that was already preoccupied with the expansion of civil rights for groups defying its sense of traditional morality. Though the NAR networks today are considered part of the larger, White Christian nationalist movement in the US, they’re distinct from other Christian nationalist groups due both to their pronounced racial and ethnic diversity and their inc…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…ike Evans to lead the March of the Living, in one sense he would have felt right at home amidst the Israeli warplanes, soldiers, and evocations of nationalism and military might that unfortunately characterize the ceremony today. Many right-wing Israeli outlets celebrated the false news that Evans would lead the march, reinforcing the close relationship between Christian Zionist leaders and the Israeli Right in the post-Trump era. As Yom HaShoah m…

Herman Cain: The Tea Party-Religious Right Candidate?

By Sarah Posner

…popular with the religious right, too; will he be the Tea Party-religious right merger candidate? As I reported in February, Cain co-founded tvTownhall with religious right activist Allen Hardage, who told me “you cannot restore this country to the founding fathers’ vision and exclude the fact that they understood our rights and ability to grow as a nation from our reverence to God.” At the tvTownhall website, the “about” link brings you to an ex…

Don’t Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson

…ous and imperial tyrants but has also helped us to advance human and civil rights, and to envision the possibility of democracy for all. The authors of the First Amendment knew that without the right to think and believe differently than religious, governmental and economic elites—speech could not be free. Nor could there be a free press. That’s why freedom of religion is called the “first freedom.” Without it, democracy itself is impossible. And…

Perry’s Challenge to Bachmann for Religious Right Vote

By Sarah Posner

…p of the country.” Bachmann, in other words, is a product of the religious right’s deliberate efforts to “raise up” soldiers to exercise a “dominion mandate;” she is, organically, one of them. Perry’s effort Saturday, on the other hand, was a staged attempt to convince them that he is committed to their worldview. It’s not clear that he has internalized it like Bachmann has, which may make him more Zelig-like and attractive to non-religious voters…

Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable

By Chrissy Stroop

…aught in our families, churches, homeschooling curricula, and/or Christian schools that for the nation to be blessed, we must be obedient to God, which, in this context, means banning abortion, putting officially sanctioned prayer back in public schools, and keeping LGBTQ folks from having equal rights. At the end of the day, a flood of “Jesus 2020” yard signs is far from the worst thing Americans will face in the current election cycle. But to al…

Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend

By Paul Harvey

…ublican culture wars turned “country” into a soundtrack for the jingoistic right. But the association of country and the political right is a recent invention, without any deep roots in the history of the Southern working class. Country had come out of a religious culture of rural working-class folk; if they did not always match up to the dreams of the Popular Front Left, their theology of doubt and struggle with darker forces had little resonance…

Will “Church Militants” Be Marching for Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…for, largely because of the misperception that the (protestant) Christian right is the religious right. While it’s true that it’s the protestant right that’s traditionally been the electoral powerhouse of the Republican Party, much of the intellectual underpinning of cultural dogmas associated with the right have their basis in right-wing Catholic thinking. It was conservative Catholic bishops who created the “right to life” movement with its ide…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…oliferation of guns The protection and expansion of voting rights, women’s rights, LGBT rights, labor rights, religious freedom, immigrant rights and the fundamental principle of equal protection under the law. You have demonstrated that a fusion movement can bring dozens of disparate groups together in common struggle. Many involved in progressive organizing have noted that the way organizing projects are funded actually militates against shared…

Will the Pandemic Hasten the Decline of Christianity or is it ‘America’s Best Hope for a Religious Revival’?

By Chrissy Stroop

…res, though legal precedent makes a strong case that churches have no such right. In any case, there are reasons to think that those right-wing Christians exercising caution over possible damage to their religion’s reputation in light of current events are on to something. Scholars have shown that right-wing Christians’ unpopular culture wars, in both Europe and the United States, are a driver of secularization. The spectacle of radical Christians…