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What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mately it did not. And while it may be tempting for those on the political left to hope for an ever-more absurdist brand of Republicanity as an easier heresy to defeat, this seems like very short-term thinking. In a larger political sense, such a development can and would be dismaying and destructive for the long-term health of our republic. The most famous phrase for which Tertullian is remembered took the form of a rhetorical question: “What has…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

…istic spirituality promoted by Beck. In Howse’s view, the not-so-fictional Left Behind novels are being played out before our eyes. Pastors and evangelical leaders literally locked arms with all faiths, including Imams, in a spiritual endeavor despite the clear biblical warnings of II Corinthians 6:14… The Mormon Church is now rejoicing over the public relations success that these undiscerning evangelical leaders have handed the Mormon Church by u…

Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…Hispanic migration to the US; some 40 percent of those born Catholic have left the church. But numbers don’t tell the whole story. The church Francis will encounter is fundamentally different in character from the church of John Paul in two important ways. One is the unprecedented ideological polarization of the church. There are today two distinct Catholic populations: one progressive-leaning population that supports the church’s social justice…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…aneously serves as the Sudan country director for Voice of the Martyrs, an evangelical agency that since 1967 has focused on helping Christians in restricted countries, emphasizing communist and Muslim countries. It functions as a hub for many other evangelical partner groups, and while it carries out humanitarian aid and support for people persecuted for their faith, evangelization is the core mission. (It has, for example, a project of prayer, s…

Trump with back to camera stands before a frenzied crowd with raised fist.

With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…aid they planned to support him in 2024. More than three-quarters of White evangelicals—along with nearly six in ten of both White non-evangelical/mainline Protestants (57%) and White Catholics (59%)—say that if the election were held today, they would vote for Trump. These levels of support from White Christians are virtually unchanged from 2016 and 2020. Like other successful authoritarian leaders, Trump has uncanny political instincts. Ever sin…

A Method to Obama’s Madness?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…, unions and businesses as well as political groups—from Moveon.org on the left to Focus on the Family on the right—to motivate their members to participate. I understand now. What Obama is doing is exactly what George W. Bush and others like him would never, ever do – reach out to those who would otherwise reject them. But, here’s the genius to the madness – if Focus on the Family and other right-wing groups refuse to accept Obama’s invitation to…

Does Atheism Have a Misogyny Problem?

By Julia Galef

…contemporary atheist movement, chimed in to chide her for overreacting. He left a comment on another popular atheist blog, PZ Myers’ Pharyngula, sarcastically comparing Watson’s experience to the much more serious problems faced by women in the Muslim world. He then followed it up with two more comments insisting that “zero bad” had happened to her in that elevator. An outpouring of thousands of comments as well as additional posts from popular at…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…us of a baby conceived when the mother bathed in a bath in which sperm was left behind! (This was almost surely not a case based in fact, as it’s a very challenging biological reality, but the rabbis often played with theoretical cases and this one likely pointed to feelings about the bathhouse as a place of licentiousness—or perhaps it was a story that could enable a pregnant young woman to keep her virtue intact.) More often, we’re left to think…

The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…rmlands of West Texas that proved so pivotal to my personal development. I left Texas after finishing my undergraduate degree at Hardin-Simmons, then enrolled in a United Methodist Seminary, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Following seminary, I went on to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Denver and now spend my time building bridges in faith communities as an openly trans queer Latinx. This bridging work across lines of difference not…

(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…litically interested people were, watching the results come in, and on the left side of the screen are the gays in the ballroom and on the right were all of these people who I knew. Some of these people are financial supporters of Exodus. When they announced that Prop 8 had passed I watched this group of people on the right begin to celebrate like it was 1999. My immediate thought was, “What an inappropriate and insensitive response.” Then I looke…