https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Bible en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/28/step-right-and-get-your-low-priced-pro-god-content-donald-trump-enters-bible-business Nearly four years ago on June 1, 2020, Federal officers violently cleared peaceful protestors from Washington DC’s Lafayette Square in order to make way for Trump to stand in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church and hold a Bible .*… Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:56:40 EDT Karen E. Park f5f9a12c-75de-494e-a2f3-207933825a18 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/11/oklahoma-bill-would-violate-basic-freedoms-rewrite-ten-commandments In the waning days of 2023, a banner year for Christian nationalism, Oklahoma State Representative Jim Olsen introduced a bill that would force every public school to display his version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Olsen, a Sunday… Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:44:49 EST Andrew L. Seidel b7875ce8-e7b1-4b84-bd10-6f0e7492acad https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/30/progressive-christians-dont-look-bible-abortion-rights-arguments-womens-autonomy-not In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade , many Christians have gone to their Bibles. Some in joy as they celebrate. Some for comfort as they worry about what comes next. Others for ammunition as… Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:04:56 EDT Rhiannon Graybill, Jill Hicks-Keeton 4eac21e8-1bbb-4883-be94-6cea47aadc64 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/07/21/evangelical-profs-biblical-comma-tweet-exposes-paradox-respectable-evangelical-anti After the Trump years and the January 6 insurrection , in which recognizably evangelical prayers and symbols featured prominently, America’s conservative, mostly white evangelical Christians aren’t exactly popular. But just when you think your expectations for this authoritarian demographic can’t… Wed, 21 Jul 2021 05:29:16 EDT Chrissy Stroop 869bc87b-5ac8-4b20-b55e-86df3868e924 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/03/bible-may-be-stranger-you-think-and-why-it-matters Despite the Bible’s ubiquity, despite the Bible’s appearance as a book like any other on our twenty-first century shelves, despite its frequent citation in private and public discourse, the Bible regularly—on closer inspection—shatters our preconceptions and assumptions. This, I argue… Wed, 03 Feb 2021 04:24:33 EST Kristin Swenson d05109b1-9325-44ec-93a2-41182fd81351 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/02/06/if-pelosi-guilty-sos-jesus Nancy Pelosi has come under fire because her “favorite Bible verse” isn’t actually in the Bible. But there’s a long and storied history of misquoting the Bible, including a couple of figures you’d least expect. Wed, 06 Feb 2019 04:57:15 EST Jill Marshall 400ece73-254c-42d7-a640-a48759d1d383 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/10/jesus-mary-and-joseph-disgusting-religious-defense-roy-moore The practice of commenting on religion and politics frequently takes one to strange places. Say, for example, having to parse a statement like this defense of former Alabama Supreme Court Justice and current Republican candidate for the US Senate Roy… Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:44:37 EST Daniel Schultz b9104fe8-f499-4cb4-8aa5-2c47d6c89299 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/31/fact-checking-scripture-those-who-do-not-work-should-not-eat Occasionally, a bit of scripture will float into public discourse, often in the context of politicians and civilians sorting through the implications of some bit of policy. The citations are as a rule fairly shallow, as one side or the… Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:40:59 EDT Daniel Schultz 4e057ce4-152e-454e-a35d-8b4cc81a0af6 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/06/bad-scholarship-poor-solution-anti-trans-politics-response-new-york-times-god Doing justice to religious texts and fighting for trans* inclusion aren’t mutually exclusive. Tue, 06 Sep 2016 05:15:37 EDT Carolyn Klaasen, Jenna Stover-Kemp 569f4cd4-90d7-4976-8bfa-7c762f73ed4a https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/26/miss-conception-donald-trump-self-styled-devil Welcome to the first in a sporadic series of posts on popularly misunderstood, misused, or misleading terms, stories, and ideas from the world of religion. In this first installment, “Miss Conception,” a recently retired religion scholar, takes a closer look… Tue, 26 Jul 2016 02:24:53 EDT Miss Conception 6ec12f3a-92fd-4d5d-beee-196814d485ca https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/17/why-faith-needs-redemptive-struggle-be-meaningful I have had the honor of working extensively with the Rev. Dr. William Barber II, beginning when he keynoted the launch of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice in November 2013. It has been a fruitful partnership… Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:26:39 EST Liz Theoharis ab7e506d-e798-4e6f-9ed3-fcdbbc0da396 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/05/biblical-perspective-recognizes-black-women What inspired you to write An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation? I used some of the work of feminist, Black feminist, and womanist writers when I was in graduate school, but I had never taken a course in feminist or… Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:26:23 EST Nyasha Junior 82fab5c3-7b96-451d-b03d-d315b64f47f6 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/22/untold-story-religious-support-gay-rights Historian Heather White on the surprising role of Protestantism in the story of LGBT justice in the U.S. Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:51:45 EDT Rebecca Alpert 510fa012-58ec-49f9-bcaa-80d5474c7aec https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/29/why-we-should-stop-trying-pigeonhole-pope Throughout Pope Francis’ historic U.S. visit, people talked about him in terms of a sharply polarized American politics. It does make sense to see Francis in these terms, given his willingness (as RD’s Patti Miller puts it) to wade into… Tue, 29 Sep 2015 01:50:10 EDT David R. Brockman d6716d5a-d5dc-48c7-b628-1604e61809b9 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/02/nazi-jewish-prisoner-and-magic-bible-or-christian-romance-fiction-gone-very-very-wrong Is there a prize for most offensive conversion narrative? Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:29:31 EDT Julia Seymour a7b6c64e-d677-45e7-a41c-8fe5eddf5d06 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/10/why-tony-campolos-lgbtq-reversal-evangelicalisms-tipping-point 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… Wed, 10 Jun 2015 02:19:52 EDT Cathleen Falsani 303ea0ab-caeb-4a14-9eb5-0728627ef71c https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/11/ben-carsons-flat-tax-gets-bible-wrong Presidential hopeful Ben Carson’s claim that his flat tax proposal is based on biblical tithing is a “radical oversimplification in a number of ways,” says a tax lawyer and expert on the tithing concepts described in the Old Testament. Adam… Mon, 11 May 2015 04:06:01 EDT Sarah Posner ac4fe181-d8d7-4f1e-b22a-85c0b2ac2968 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/06/bill-oreillys-biblical-misremembering The Bible is full of mistakes. Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:13:51 EST Jess Peacock 08f8933b-bb9e-4ea9-9c80-655ac4b0b8bb https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/16/why-was-suspicion-over-boy-who-came-back-heaven-ignored-years “When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible.” Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:16:46 EST Rachel Wagner 5c3f50b1-b2b9-455b-84f1-fb989119087a https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/13/anger-privilege-and-invisible-injustice-what-cain-and-abel-have-do-ferguson How much is our view of justice determined by how we ourselves have been treated? Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:39:03 EDT Eva Mroczek 3f354a3d-98a5-41fb-af1f-a8973264ba38 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/09/15/marriage-everybody-says-former-anti-gay-evangelical An RD interview by Candace Chellew-Hodge Mon, 15 Sep 2014 07:16:26 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge 60f65d92-a9e3-4920-a613-11efb5be3907 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/29/elie-wiesel-distorts-bible-controversial-child-sacrifice-ad A close look at scripture challenges Elie Wiesel’s narcissistic new tale of exceptionalism. Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:24:07 EDT Seth Sanders 6fb1c500-2511-4e66-94e2-6cf27a6c556c https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/05/godly-game-or-godless-satire-countering-biblical-ignorance-heretical-humor “We love the Bible,” the game’s creators claim, “we just have a funny way of showing it.” Tue, 05 Aug 2014 02:49:11 EDT Betsy Shirley 67bbba7a-241a-4e6a-9107-574d58ea5e01 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/23/bobby-jindal-hypes-his-christian-cred-liberty-u Over the past few months, Louisiana Governor Piyush “Bobby” Jindal has been making aggressive moves to prepare himself for a 2016 presidential bid. In addition to rejecting a Medicaid expansion (and in the process denying healthcare to hundreds of thousands… Fri, 23 May 2014 03:46:59 EDT Murali Balaji b2762063-5f59-484a-87c5-61a1a8ae2907 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/07/god-and-gay-christian-interview-matthew-vines Moving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion Wed, 07 May 2014 04:01:05 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge 87da6bed-35fd-4614-bd48-40753c738239