Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...
A Texas crusader about the “woke” left and a contributor to Project 2025 turns out to be a former gay porn star. Corey DeAngelis is listed as a “contributor” to Project 2025 in his capacity as a senior fellow for…
There is very little Donald Trump and his allies behind Project 2025 aren’t targeting in the 900-page Christian nationalist manifesto, said Nathan Empsall, an Episcopal priest and executive director of Faithful America. Empsall moderated a recent webinar he and his…
“Nothing draws fire like drawing attention to sexual abuse and coverups in white evangelical churches. Nothing even comes close.” These are the words Kristin Du Mez chose to reflect on as she prepared herself on the eve of the release…
This article discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you are in crisis, call or text the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You know someone, even if you don’t know it. You work with someone. Go to school with someone….
Project 2025 is not a hypothetical proposal but is a reality already being tested in state legislatures and federal courts, Skye Perryman warned Congress Sept. 19. Perryman, a Baylor University alumus who leads Democracy Forward, was the only witness before…
Al Mohler is obsessed with declining birth rates, and Donald Trump is obsessed with villainizing immigrants. It turns out there’s a connection between these two ideas. New research from Statista, reported by Katharina Buchholz, illustrates that without immigration, a dozen…
Any effort to suppress voter participation is a direct outgrowth of Christian nationalism, a panel of experts said during a Sept. 24 webinar hosted by Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and its Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign. More than…
The director of missions for a Southern Baptist association in Eastern North Carolina sent a letter to all pastors of churches in Onslow County urging them to compel their members to vote for “biblical values” in this year’s presidential election….
In Sisters and Saints: Women in American Religion, Harvard religion professor Ann Braude writes: An old saying among members of African American churches can be applied to most religious groups in the United States: “Women are the backbone of the…
Sir Winston Churchill famously said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” This could be applied to propaganda, as it is often based on blatant lies or embellishments. The…
Those of us in the Mainline Protestant traditions who still find community in church settings often feel an allegiance to whichever denomination we were raised in. In my case, I was baptized and confirmed in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and…
Donald Trump’s lies about election fraud have had a corrosive effect not only on Republican voters but especially on white evangelical voters who now distrust the U.S. election system. New data from Gallup show a record-high 56-point gap between Democrats…
