The Christian Worldview Revealed by Sessions’ Use of Romans 13
This view of government did not spring into existence with this administration or with the Truth Project—Focus users have been learning it for decades.
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Why the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business
Self-definition and even strident public opposition are one thing. Parsing who’s a “real” Christian and who’s not is something else.
Read MoreIs it ‘biblical to enforce the law,’ as Trump Admin Claims in Defense of Separating Families?
In short, Jeff Sessions is a gutless coward, without the courage of his professed religious beliefs; without even a rudimentary moral compass beyond White America Good. Brown America Bad.
Read MorePence Campaigns to Southern Baptists, But He May Want to Cool His Trump Jets
The vote to invite Pence was only 60-40, and several audience members challenged his presence. Evangelicals may be overwhelmingly Trump’s base, but not all of them.
Read MoreSCOTUS Refusal Again Favors Religious Claims… But This Time in Liberals’ Favor
An anti-gay breakaway group has to return a half a billion dollars worth of property to the Episcopal Church.
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Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’
The Court may not have explicitly rejected Phillips’s free speech claims, but the fact that seven of nine justices chose not to follow Phillips and his attorneys in their primary reasoning, even while ruling in their favor, is noteworthy.
Read MoreWill SCOTUS’s New Zeal for “Neutrality” Affect its Decision on the “Muslim Ban”?
The Town of Greece v. Galloway decision in 2014—also written by Justice Kennedy—upheld a town’s practice of holding legislative prayer during public meetings, even though these prayers were uniformly Christian. Where was neutrality on religion then?
Read MoreHow “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion
Gratitude operates like resentment. When we find ourselves in a position of owing—and people in a democratic society always owe something to other people—we may become vulnerable to control.
Read MoreWithout Judgement Day or Karma How Does a Humanist Confront ‘Trump Funk’?
For those confident in the coming of Judgment Day or in the frictionless workings out of karma, there is naught to be done but wait for history to unfold its glorious purposes.
Read MoreBusting a Myth of Evangelical Glory Days … and More, in White Supremacy Quiz
If American evangelicals can no longer point to the “glory days” when they were on the right side of history with regard to race, then it becomes much more difficult to avoid a reckoning.
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