President Joe Biden’s speech announcing he would “pass the torch” to a new generation of leaders and back Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic party’s new nominee has shaken up the presidential race. Christian conservatives have since attacked Harris…
Alternative scorecards compare lawmakers’ positions and effectiveness
Interest groups from across America’s ideological spectrum create candidate scorecards and voter guides that help citizens compare leaders’ voting records on key issues. This election cycle, voters can review state and national candidates’ positions on the environment, working people, civil…
Evangelicals promote Falun Gong-backed movie The Firing Squad
Evangelicals are promoting The Firing Squad, a faith-based drama that opens this weekend. But they’re being mum about the film’s connections with Falun Gong, a movement founded in China that promotes conservative causes and works to create “the world’s largest…
Trial of Tina Peters, election denying Christian clerk, finally starts Wednesday
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to halt the thrice-delayed trial of Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk who became a national celebrity of the election denial movement, claimed God was on her side and rallied the enthusiastic support…
Child Evangelism Fellowship celebrates legal victories against public schools
In recent years, conservative Christians have celebrated a number of Supreme Court victories, including overturning Roe v. Wade. But Child Evangelism Fellowship still celebrates a 2001 decision that “broke down the doors” of public schools for its after-school Good News…
Saint Stephen: Imprisonment only increases the adoration of Steve Bannon
To the Bureau of Prisons, Steve Bannon is inmate No. 05635-509. But to his disciples in America and Europe, he’s a true-blue hero, populist prophet, savior of Western civilization and F-bomb-spouting soldier of God. Most Americans never heard of him…
Some evangelicals still don’t believe climate change is real, while others believe it is God’s judgment for sin
June was the 13th month in a row to break global heat records, and the summer of 2024 already has seen more frequent and long-lived heat waves, hotter and bigger wildfires, longer lasting and more violent storms, and more heat-related…
Two evangelical political action groups merge with hopes to reach 1 million voters
Family Policy Alliance Foundation and Christians Engaged, two conservative Christian groups focused on political activism, have merged so they can “sign up 1 million Christians to engage in the upcoming U.S. presidential election and local elections across the country for…
Trimmed down GOP platform sounds a lot like a Trump campaign speech
As Democrats debate whether President Joe Biden should run for another term, Republican officials back Donald Trump and his agenda for the next four years, according to the party’s recently released platform, which is expected to be approved at the…
Evangelical groups cheer layoffs at Southern Poverty Law Center
“Do not gloat when your enemy falls,” advises Proverbs. “When they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice.” But conservative Christians couldn’t help gloating over layoffs and program cuts at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the $117 million nonprofit that has…
Ministers of Propaganda decodes false gospel of Religious Right
Celebrity preachers, entrepreneurial theologians, parachurch leaders and conservative pundits have sold millions of Americans a false gospel that legitimizes discriminatory social arrangements, argues Scott Coley in his provocative book, Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious…
Nazarene Church cracks down on LGBTQ-welcoming leaders
The Church of the Nazarene is cracking down on three longtime leaders who seek to minister to LGBTQ people, charging them with disobeying the denomination’s 2019 ruling that same-sex individuals must remain celibate and that clergy cannot bless or perform…