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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

…sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right—is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the magazine’s Fall 2023/Winter 2024 issue. Former President Donald Trump, nursing personal grievances against “deep state” officials and White House staff who thwarted his plans to stay in power after his 2020 defeat, has made it…

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10 Pro-LGBT #ChristiansVote Tweets From Anti-Gay, Pro-Trump Hashtag Hijack

…ut Loud, a nonpartisan campaign that elevates pro-LGBT voices within faith communities. The nonprofit launched its hashtag hijack on Wednesday, exactly one week before Election Day. https://twitter.com/BelieveOutLoud/status/793831195364687873 Consider the tweets below a form of self-care, and a gentle reminder that people really can be good, tolerant, and loving, despite the vitriol that surrounds us. 1)   https://twitter.com/UAB_Shoob/status/7935…

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Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

…Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications were not recommended by career DOJ officials. The groups in question, the Nevada-based Hookers for Jesus, and the South Carolina-based Lincoln Tubman Foundation, had their grants pushed through by Katharine Sullivan, head of the Orwellianly named Office of Justice…

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11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You

…e Clinton era made a ghostly appearance in the form of James Carville who Zoomed in from home with a half-empty bottle of Pappy Van Winkle over his shoulder. We get it. But besides getting likkered up, what have we done with all this anxiety and nervous energy? Brought it to Twitter of course. There were far too many insightful, hilarious, scathing, ironic, and otherwise round-up-worthy posts to include here, but this should give a little taste of…

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The 11 Best #RealClergyBios Tweets

…sbyterian minister Mihee Kim-Kort, who launched #realclergybios as an offshoot of #realacademicbios, to get the story behind the hashtag. Scroll down for the 11 most insightful—or just plain cheeky—tweets. What pushed you to start #RealClergyBios? Clergy constantly seem to have these perfect bios on Twitter and elsewhere, but if we dig a little deeper into their lives, it’s not so shiny and happy. My friend, Elizabeth Grasham (@elizabethlgr), help…

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Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

…ng from the religious right began. While Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink.com regularly features updates on Obama’s activities—or associated rumors about the President-elect’s possible moves—Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition has initiated a project called “Obama Watch.” From James Dobson’s Focus on the Family: In “Obama’s FCC Adviser Supports Limits on Talk Radio” FotF’s Citizenlink.com’s Jennifer Mesko reported that Obama named Henry Ri…

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Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

…dia. Conjectures piled up upon assumptions, and thousands of writers were looking forward to a sleepless night of encyclical reading followed by the bleary-eyed composition of hot takes and appearances on talk shows and radio on the morning of June 18, when the Vatican officially released it to the world. Then something weird happened: the encyclical leaked three days early. The journalist who wrote an introduction to the leaked draft in the Itali…

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“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

…expressed here so powerfully demands a response. ________ https://twitter.com/sista_theology/status/796212296909488128?lang=en https://twitter.com/BrandiNico/status/796239825951035392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Katelyn Beaty, an editor at Christianity Today, wrote in the Washington Post: When it comes to the Bible and Jesus and evangelism and service, the 81 percent and I share the same DNA. Although recently I have wished it were otherwise, evangelical…

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Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

…horitarian demographic can’t get any lower, some “respectable” evangelical comes along and invokes the “biblical comma.” In case you were wondering, this ostensibly holy punctuation mark is just as much a real thing as dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark, although at least dinosaurs really did exist at one point in time, unlike commas in any ancient manuscript. Let me explain. Over the weekend, Grace Bible Theological Seminary provost and theology professor O…

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Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

…e the church is apparently immaterial to Kristian, and I probably couldn’t come up with a more obvious example of unexamined Christian privilege if I tried. I’ll also just note in passing that justifying a practice on the basis of its being “very old”—the appeal to tradition—is a logical fallacy. The cruel practice of slavery is “very old,” but very few people are willing to openly argue for its validity today. In any case, the occasion for Kristi…

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