In a speech at last year’s Republican National Convention, then vice-presidential hopeful JD Vance shared his philosophy of national identity. “America is not just an idea,” he told the crowd. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.” As I wrote last year, […]
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Make America Israel Again? Read Post »
In October 2016, when an audio recording surfaced of Donald Trump bragging to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush that he could kiss and grope the genitals of any woman he pleased because he was a star, one of America’s most venerated evangelical scholars withdrew his endorsement of Trump’s presidential run. It’s impossible to overstate the […]
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Why Evangelicals Couldn’t Care Less About Trump’s Epstein Scandal Read Post »
Dan McClellan has spent much of his life learning—and relearning—what the Bible and its authors were trying to tell us. But the years he spent in graduate school studying Hebrew texts, Near Eastern cultures, and the concept of deity taught him something else: The way scholars talk about the Bible is much different from how […]
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The Bible Says So…or Does It? Read Post »
On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a departure from his previous calls for transparency, announced that he would not ask for a vote on whether the files pertaining to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein should be released. Only a week before, on the right-wing podcast “The Benny Show,” he had said, “It’s a very […]
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Did Christian Nationalist Leaders Prompt Mike Johnson’s Epstein Flip-Flop? Read Post »
On Monday, President Donald Trump spoke for nearly 90 minutes at the White House Faith Luncheon, a gathering of faith leaders and CEOs whose companies support faith-based groups. Though his speech wasn’t all about religion—he touched on the election, his “Big Beautiful Bill,” and foreign policy, among other topics—he devoted a portion of it to […]
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Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates and Trump Couldn’t Be Happier Read Post »
One longstanding fight that has divided the political right has been over whether or not humans should be allowed to modify the weather, with religious conservatives saying absolutely not, while the tech visionaries are all for it. These debates were often theoretical, but then the catastrophic floods in Texas took place. On July 2, two […]
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The Texas Floods Amped Up the Battle Between MAHA and the Tech Right Read Post »
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, on this beautiful Sunday morning, I stand behind this pulpit to share with you—and the tens of thousands of other believers who are watching—a troubling and painful fact: Congresswoman Smith is a tool of Satan. She has sided with him on issue after issue. She is an impediment […]
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Trump’s IRS Gives Christian Nationalists a Big Boost Read Post »
The co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation says Texas has no right to dictate how or whether kids worship.
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TX Families Sue to Stop Ten Commandments Requirement in Public School Classrooms Read Post »
Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. In a major ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender kids, but not cisgender […]
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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender Affirming Care for Minors Read Post »
Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. In a major ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender kids, but not cisgender […]
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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Read Post »
On Saturday, a gunman impersonating a police officer fatally shot Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband at their home, and wounded state Sen. Mark Hortman and his wife at their home. Police finally apprehended the suspected shooter, Vance Boelter, Sunday night after “the largest manhunt in state history,” Brooklyn Park police Chief Mark […]
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In late March, the US Department of Education put state education officials on notice: No longer would the federal government tolerate what the agency described in a Dear Colleague Letter as the widespread infringement on parents’ rights to direct the schooling of their kids. “By natural right and moral authority, parents are the primary protectors […]
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Parental Rights Is a Movement With Deep Roots. It’s Spreading Nationwide. Read Post »
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