America’s Constitution requires no qualifications for Supreme Court justices, but a culture-warring Christian organization wants to change that by requiring justices to have “a biblical worldview,” a proposal that may violate the Constitution’s ban on religious tests for office holders….
Critical Race Theory lines up with a biblical worldview
I first came to use Critical Race Theory as an academic tool about a decade ago. Around that time, I was helping lead a tour of urban Latina/o students at the university I worked at, together with a Christian urban…
The gospel of universal compassion
A hybrid God An 82-year-old man is attacked by a hammer-wielding fanatic and political celebrities snicker and sneer. Nancy Pelosi has been demonized by the conservative movement so viciously, and for so long, that hyper-partisans like Donald Trump Jr., Kari…
Who needs the church when we have the biblical worldview?
After his second visit to New York in 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrestled with the character of Protestant churches in America versus those in Europe in an essay titled “Protestantism without Reformation.” Even as he introduced his argument, which plays up…
Custodians of a lost America: The power and limitations of white evangelicalism
Donald Trump’s victory suggests that the influence of white conservative Christians extends far beyond the borders of evangelical culture. Not everybody outside the white evangelical camp is bashing that tribe. Especially in the South and Midwest, white evangelicals are valued as custodians of traditional sexual ethics by white folks who attend Mainline Protestant or Roman Catholic churches.