‘Bad Faith’ Reveals This isn’t First Rodeo for Racism and Religious Right
The Religious Right is experiencing another, devastating Covid surge, especially in Southern states with Republican…
Read MoreCOVID-19
Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr
Earlier this month Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke announced to the world that he had contracted…
Read More
The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism
Over the last couple of weeks, America’s conservative, mostly white evangelicals have once again generated…
Read More
Latest Diatribe on Francis and Latin Mass in the Times Launders the History — and Troubling Elements — of the ‘Tradition’
Church councils are never simple things, neither when they’re happening nor in their aftermath. Although…
Read More
Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?
In 2018, I published an article here on Religion Dispatches about how abortion is a…
Read More
New Clashes in Portland Confirm that Christian Nationalism Remains a Clear and Present Danger
On Friday, August 7, the Department of Homeland Security announced to state and local authorities…
Read More
Is Being Trans a Religion? Why the Christian Right Wants You to Think So
Have you noticed how common it is for right-wingers to describe things they oppose in…
Read More
As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem
This week, you’re likely to encounter a lot of commentary on PRRI and Interfaith Youth…
Read More
UPDATED: Turning Catholic School’s Anti-Mask Theology Into a Faith Argument is Just Fine With Religious Right (Even if it is Based on Garbage Theology)
UPDATE, July 27: The Catholic journalist Tony Spence points out that the Diocese of Lansing…
Read More
Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’
A new lawsuit filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science, anti-vaxxing organization seeks to drag…
Read More