James Dobson’s Family Values Were Influenced by a Eugenicist [Audio]
This exclusive three-minute clip, featuring historian Audrey Clare Farley, is from the May 17 episode…
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I Grew Up Evangelical and the Christian Nationalist Insurrection Did Not Surprise Me
On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob…
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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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“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy
As news spread about the death of “ex-gay therapy” pioneer Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, one of Nicolosi’s…
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Dobson’s Baby: Trump’s Baptism at the Evangelical-Washing Font
Donald Trump is now a “baby Christian“? Now that Trump has become the presumptive GOP nominee—the…
Read MoreNPR Gives Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly a Pass
“I’m not the author of scripture,” Daly confides to NPR’s Rachel Martin.
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Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)
As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface.
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Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents
How did Rick Santorum roll over Mitt Romney in all those primary states? Where did the energy come from? While pundits still insist that he won’t topple the moneyed Mitt—whose campaign still generates about as much excitement as the winter sport of curling—Santorum is holding onto the spotlight long enough to put religious populism front and center.
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Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question
Exodus International appears to be re-thinking its commitment to transforming gay Christians into straight ones. So now it is the larger world’s turn to ask: is that kind of change really possible?
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Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …
For the past four years, the pro-choice “40 Days of Prayer” campaign has attempted to speak to the many religious women who seek and have abortions, because the movement will never be able to change the laws back to being pro-woman until women themselves are voting pro-choice.
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