Should Evangelical Trump Critics Leave The Movement? Who Cares?
Inside, outside, who cares? Wear the Evangelical label, don’t wear it, it doesn’t really matter.
Read MoreRemapping American Christianities
This initiative aimed to take a fresh look at Christianity’s increasingly diverse expression in the United States. As the monochromatic paradigm of American Christianity fades, this initiative explored how people came together in new ways to express their beliefs, effect social justice, and find community in structures we may not yet recognize as “church.”
Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right
It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan.
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Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire
At the fire site, chaplains have carried flowers and photographs through the fencing to create a makeshift shrine, because the building is still sealed off from the public.
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“Man of Steel” Brings Muscular Message to Oppose Right-to-Die Legislation
Hanson is a tempting spokesperson for the anti-aid-in-dying movement because he represents its “traditional” family values, a nostalgic view of male independence and dominance within an idealized conception of nuclear families.
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Shades of Christian Reconstructionism in Trump Education Pick, Betsy DeVos
Education is arguably the most important front in the battle to bring the Kingdom of God to bear on contemporary culture.
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How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism
There is little doubt as to why Orthodoxy seems appealing to a white nationalist movement.
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Why So Many American Christians Don’t Understand Protest
We would do well to remember that our good news first came as an act of divine protest in the body of a poor, brown baby born in a barn.
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‘Catholic Feminist’ Isn’t an Oxymoron, and Other Tales From a Beleaguered Tradition
In her latest book, journalist Celia Wexler explores the conflicted feelings many Catholic women have towards their faith and the attempts to make peace with the institutions and traditions that fail them.
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Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’
“Quite possibly, bearing the cross might mean opening our homes to immigrants, confronting our racist uncles at Thanksgiving dinner, taking to the streets, and putting our bodies on the line.”
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The Black Church in Trump’s America: Refuge and Resistance
“Resistance will require us to renounce our own tendencies to espouse practices of Islamophobia, patriarchy, and homophobia in our congregations and denominations,” says Rev. Leslie Callahan.
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