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Dec 20, 2024 · Religion Dispatches. Religion Dispatches is your independent, non-profit, award-winning source for the best writing on critical and timely issues at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.
Trump’s Cabinet (and Other) Picks Paint Picture of a Christian ...
Nov 24, 2024 · Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too many of us these days. This has especially been the case watching the president-elect nominate his Cabinet, a wishlist of personnel that perfectly embodies Trumpism’s ultranationalist populism, nostalgia for a utopian White Christian past, …
Meet Pete Hegseth, the Man Who Will Lead the Entire US Military …
Nov 13, 2024 · Jeff Sharlet. Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, adapted into a Netflix documentary series, and The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the ...
Teflon Antichrist: How Did a President Who Fit the Role So Well …
Mar 30, 2021 · One of the more unexpected developments of Donald Trump’s presidency was his metamorphosis into an evangelical hero. American Christians didn’t just like his policies, they venerated him as a near supernatural being — the last hope against Antichrist.. Such a response, to any political leader, is unusual.
Even if Voters 'Get What They Asked For' it's More Likely to Cause …
Nov 18, 2024 · In response to the election, a significant number of people on social media and elsewhere have expressed some form of this sentiment: a lot of voters are going to get what they asked for and learn some hard lessons about their own interests.While one can always hope, recent history shows that these lessons are likely to go unlearned.
John Stoehr - Religion Dispatches
John Stoehr. John Stoehr is the editor and publisher of the Editorial Board, a newsletter about politics for normal people. He's a visiting assistant professor of public policy at Wesleyan, a fellow at the Yale Journalism Initiative, a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly, and a contributing editor for Religion Dispatches.
Why Tony Campolo's LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism's Tipping …
Jun 10, 2015 · That crashing sound you heard Monday morning was waves of change breaching the levees of the evangelical Christian world when one of its most venerable icons, the Rev. Tony Campolo, came out in favor of full inclusion of LGBTQ people in the life of the church. While his name may not be as familiar outside the evangelical bubble as his contemporary, the Rev. Billy Graham, Campolo, 80, is ...
Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t ...
Oct 22, 2024 · On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and other apparatuses to “disrupt and degrade” Palestinian rights organizations and a range of progressive funding infrastructure.
Why We Defend Con Artists Like Trump Nominee Dr. Oz — Long …
Dec 3, 2024 · Remember Dr. Oz? Remember when he was dragged in front of Congress for selling a “magic weight loss cure for every body type”—his green tea “miracle” pills that “burn fat fast”? If confirmed, he will be Trump’s head of Medicare and Medicaid. In that administration he would (again, if confirmed) b
Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by …
Aug 13, 2024 · Almost as soon as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, attacks focused on his association with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) started to roll in. Harris herself is a Baptist.. Christianity Today played things safe, noting that Walz had upset conservative Christian leaders during his time in ...