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The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life

By Justin Philpot

…the Christian Coalition, like the larger religious right, was made up of a number of churches and faiths, evangelicals were the face the national media associated with the movement. The failure of the religious right to overturn Roe v. Wade has also led to a new kind of pro-life organization. Originally formed as offshoots of larger, adult-led organizations, pro-life youth activist groups have become increasingly more vocal in their own right. Unf…

At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…ry survival of America and the end of the world, this is fuel for the next domestic terrorist incident. *CORRECTION: This essay incorrectly identified Charles Pace as “the current leader of the Branch Davidians.” In fact, while he was a Branch Davidian in the 1970s, Pace was never a follower of David Koresh, doesn’t appear to have the support of any surviving Branch Davidians, and there’s little reason to associate his beliefs with those of the Br…

Just What Kind of Revolution is Francis Calling For?

By Silvia Alves Fernandes

…ften deal with the concrete problems—whether it be illness, drug addition, domestic strife, or crime—that afflict the faithful. In these Pentecostal churches it is hard to be anonymous; they seek a holistic transformation of the self. Much has been made of Francis’s call to the young people to “stir things up… to make a mess, to disturb complacency.” Francis also stated that “[n]o one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the…

Bryan Fischer’s and the GOP’s Special Christian First Amendment

By Sarah Posner

…slims and for banning them from military service; claimed that gay sex is ‘domestic terrorism’; called gay adoption a ‘terrible, terrible, inexcusable, inhumane thing to do to children’; and claimed that Hitler and his stormtroopers were all gay.” All of this, and more, has been on display for public consumption for some time. That didn’t stop the Values Voters Summit from bestowing a prestigious award on Fischer’s boss, Don Wildmon, which deemed…

Knighting Viktor Orbán for ‘Defending Christianity,’ Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Demonstrates That ‘Culture War’ is the Only Theology That Matters to the Global Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ndustrialization. Nationalism inherited Romanticism’s glorification of the domestic sphere as a fortress of virtue against an increasingly corrupt and corrupting world. It’s in Romanticism that we first see the family celebrated as “natural,” sanctified, and optimal. Nationalism takes up this Romantic celebration of the family and extends it, arguing that one’s nation (and specifically one’s ethnic or racial group) constitutes a kind of extended f…

Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel

By Diane Winston

…ide. In the years following his presidency, his vision was enacted through domestic and foreign policy. Welfare reform, trade agreements, and the War on Terror may have seemed to further neoliberal or neoconservative aims. But they also fit with Reagan’s notion of a Godly America that believed its self-interest was in tune with the divine. Trump personifies this vision of freedom; he has pursued his own ends with the zeal of one who expects God is…

Enlightenment Values Aren’t Just the Solution to Racism, They’re Also the Problem

By Hussein Rashid

…bout the Enlightenment, but what part of that do we actually manifest? Our domestic and foreign policy have always been aligned around the issue of conformity and maintaining privilege. We cannot see the two as separate. As long as we have official policies that see parts of our population as less than civilized, thus less than citizens, and thus less than human, we will always see the world outside our borders in the same way. If we believe that…

Gay Rights a Go in Chattanooga

By Michael Schulson

…, where the city council just approved full benefits for city employees in domestic partnerships, including same-sex relationships. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports: With a 5-3 vote, Chattanooga became the third city in Tennessee to expand employees’ benefits to their partners, both gay and straight. The bill will go into effect immediately and employees will be able to sign up for the benefits by next Spring. This news from Chattanooga is…

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

By Chrissy Stroop

…the evangelical milieu of my childhood and youth. It’s hard to find exact numbers here, but I’m confident that most evangelicals believe that Jews who never “accept Jesus as their personal lord and savior” go to hell when they die. Around the time I went to college, however, I was introduced to a seemingly more benign theological possibility; namely, that when Paul wrote “all Israel will be saved” (Romans 11:26) he really meant every Jewish perso…

King Undeterred on Hearings while Shari’ah Law Bans Abound in States

By Sarah Posner

…ittee, had asked King to expand the probe to “a broad-based examination of domestic extremist groups regardless of their ideological underpinnings.” A coalition of interfaith and civil rights groups has denounced the hearings as divisive and McCarthy-esque. But for King, who believes 80% of American mosques are “controlled by radical imams,” and has ignored warnings from retired miltary brass and scholars at esteemed institutions like West Point t…