https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Brett Kavanaugh en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/24/its-theology-stupid-why-shocking-sbc-report-anything-surprising On Sunday, an investigation firm called Guidepost Solutions released a 300-page report recounting a disturbingly familiar pattern of abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the mostly white, evangelical Protestant denomination that accounts for over 5% of the adult… Tue, 24 May 2022 05:22:59 EDT Chrissy Stroop, Jessica Johnson 2c4cfa52-e3ce-47fa-aafd-0aeba8705786 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/11/dont-buy-alitos-assurances-heres-what-happens-next-after-roe-falls The leaked first draft of Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has sent shockwaves throughout the American psyche. This is a stunning reversal of women’s rights that have been in place for half a century . It… Wed, 11 May 2022 03:34:55 EDT Brynn Tannehill 8f88195d-cde9-4218-bc3a-552870401275 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/10/end-roe-comes-courtesy-catholic-church-dorothy-day-abortion-fund-st-vincent-de-paul No matter how Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is decided finally, restrictions unto bans on abortions will be courtesy of the institutional Roman Catholic Church. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, their Pro-Life Activities Committee, and colleagues will… Tue, 10 May 2022 03:41:31 EDT Mary Hunt 1c7ff8e2-da71-42af-a292-a2f7ca74b98a https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/06/originalism-neednt-always-result-abortion-bans-just-ask-al-qaida When it comes to Roe v. Wade , some pro-choice voices have a jihadism problem. Posting about “Shariʿa” won’t help them. Critiquing originalism might. A subset of those infuriated by the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would… Fri, 06 May 2022 04:27:14 EDT Nathan French 2bc57955-1063-4303-aec2-3dd9e58ffe8c https://religiondispatches.org/2021/12/03/authoritarian-scotus-didnt-just-happen-roe-hangs-thread-press-struggles-context-and In light of the likelihood that the GOP-stacked Supreme Court will rule in favor of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health —and the immense harm that such a ruling will do, whether or not it comes… Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:29:21 EST Chrissy Stroop f96e8532-b31f-4298-869d-02558d45649f https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/23/could-supreme-court-undo-marriage-equality When I look at this broken, packed, partisan Supreme Court , I don’t see a guardian—I see a threat to our basic human rights. I see an institution packed with ideologues eager to throw out decades of settled law with… Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:41:28 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 96dcb2d9-8a2e-4cd1-b96f-4fb396edfba4 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/02/end-roe-verdict-supreme-court-majority-christian-nationalist The Supreme Court ended Roe v. Wade . When the court finally got around to issuing the reprehensible 5-4 shadow docket decision on Texas’s bounty-hunting, 2-week abortion ban, which had already gone into effect and is spreading to other states… Thu, 02 Sep 2021 03:16:51 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 1c89ce88-fe6d-4ec1-b22b-13b561ee68df https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/12/abortion-no-longer-significant-evangelicals-or-has-it-just-become-water In 2018, I published an article here on Religion Dispatches about how abortion is a decisive issue for white evangelical voters. As a young evangelical, it became the single issue that determined my vote: The few times I garnered the… Thu, 12 Aug 2021 02:40:36 EDT Bradley Onishi 059bb6a7-55ac-4942-8566-8ebe40f8d308 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/05/20/first-roe-then-contraception-unless-action-taken-supreme-court-about-strike-down Sixteen days before Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, the Supreme Court scheduled a conference on a case that could end the reproductive freedom of 170 million American women. Ginsburg died on Sept. 19, 2020, and the conference, set for Sept. 29… Thu, 20 May 2021 12:59:34 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 37c17d42-2690-4b2e-a762-6b0883e79b83 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/04/26/whats-wrong-taming-tongue-gossip-and-limits-evangelical-abuse-prevention-efforts As has become increasingly clear to outside observers in recent years, conservative evangelicals don’t exactly have a stellar record when it comes to addressing sexual misconduct and various forms of abuse in their institutions. When the #ChurchToo movement emerged in… Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:39:02 EDT Chrissy Stroop 1e9ad05f-8191-46df-bb6c-b6632e3d5652 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/28/i-grew-evangelical-and-christian-nationalist-insurrection-did-not-surprise-me On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob of predominantly white domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol, in an attempt to prevent the Senate from certifying the electoral college vote in favor of Joseph… Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:39:30 EST Deirdre Sugiuchi 9b27a65d-ed5c-46fa-9d30-1129d55133bb https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/06/updated-my-work-confederate-monuments-leaves-christian-ethicist-distrustful-calls UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached security and entered the Capitol, spurred on by Trump himself. Their goal was to interrupt Congress as they were counting Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory… Wed, 06 Jan 2021 11:31:15 EST Ryan Andrew Newson 496a3ac2-29c3-49d8-ad94-644f1bb35dae https://religiondispatches.org/2020/11/30/thanksgiving-bombshell-scotus-began-implementation-ultraconservative-agenda The unsigned, midnight opinion dropped like a bombshell on Thanksgiving. Five ultraconservative members of the Supreme Court, including Amy Coney Barrett, issued an emergency opinion in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo blocking New York’s health order as it… Mon, 30 Nov 2020 05:05:02 EST Andrew L. Seidel 9e73f198-b115-4e8d-a510-cf44fbc4e652 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/09/25/why-media-and-democrats-should-reject-christian-rights-pearl-clutching-and-address America is trapped in an abusive relationship—not just with the pussy-grabbing President Donald Trump, our abuser-in-chief, but also with the Republican Party, its white Christian base, the police, and the increasingly uninhibited “ good guys with guns ,” whose vigilante… Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:34:39 EDT Chrissy Stroop 4408b225-cdbb-4cc1-ad04-bf5ccf43a79d https://religiondispatches.org/2020/09/21/trumps-nominee-fill-rbgs-seat-unfit-definition The name will be announced later this week. The president, a former reality show host, has a penchant for dragging out nominations in an orgy of egocentric pomp, one of his many corrosive influences. But indecent haste has driven Trump… Mon, 21 Sep 2020 04:01:13 EDT Andrew L. Seidel f8862b83-f51f-41ea-bac8-348a543d4ffa https://religiondispatches.org/2020/04/16/whether-its-celebrated-ct-or-denied-nyc-evangelical-proselytizing-isnt-quarantine One has to imagine that the rabidly anti-LGBTQ Franklin Graham, President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, expected the kind of culture war conflict he evidently relishes when he mobilized the latter to set up… Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:21:49 EDT Chrissy Stroop 5bcd3a78-8cef-4154-99dd-038a73d125c7 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/03/02/speech-religious-broadcasters-william-barr-warns-secular-tyranny-promotes-christian I’ve said it before, and if you’re reading this, you’ve very likely heard the same thing darkly muttered among liberals and progressives if you haven’t said it yourself: I never thought anything could possibly make me miss Attorney General Jefferson… Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:00:37 EST Chrissy Stroop 3082ca1e-dd62-47c5-9cff-24661f3de5c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/02/07/trumps-sotu-address-was-christian-nationalist-dog-whistle Amid the ripping paper and misbegotten medals, Trump’s State of the Union address promised nationalism with a distinctly Christian bent. Trump wants to steal $5 billion from public schools (which he decried as “failing government schools”) to give to private… Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:13:42 EST Andrew L. Seidel 8cbd6395-85cb-4536-a21a-b6737f5647ed https://religiondispatches.org/2020/02/06/amid-reality-tv-gimmicks-and-xenophobic-rhetoric-trumps-sotu-appeals-evangelicals Since late December, 2019, when retiring editor-in-chief of Christianity Today Mark Galli published his infamous “Trump Should Be Removed from Office” editorial, there’s been a great deal of buzz in the pundit class over whether Trump, after a highly publicized… Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:32:00 EST Chrissy Stroop 355b4093-938b-4544-a86f-b830b0c18582 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/05/01/resurgence-right-wing-anti-semitic-conspiracism-endangers-all-justice-movements In right-wing circles, theories about cultural Marxism in the era of Trumpism come entangled with other anti-Semitic theories, often arguing that George Soros and a shadowy “globalist” cabal are working to dissolve national borders and sovereignty into a totalitarian-communist “New World Order.” Wed, 01 May 2019 02:26:02 EDT Ben Lorber 11e68b16-4e42-4132-9dc0-457aa4ffd414 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/03/28/christian-or-nothing-buddhist-prisoner-be-executed-without-buddhist-chaplain-updated In the rare instances when courts roll back Christian privilege, the cries of persecution are swift. But parity is not oppression. And the erosion of unwarranted privilege is not persecution; it is the steady march toward equality. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:18:57 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 4088a8a1-7a5c-4d13-9d9e-c3d35431d694 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/03/06/cpac-president-got-one-thing-he-needed When you center abortion at the cost of all other issues, you center the unborn whose lives are supposedly at stake. The unborn become angels who must be protected at all costs, which means the rest of us—the born and bodied—are of secondary concern at best. Wed, 06 Mar 2019 04:18:54 EST Bradley Onishi 6a001783-b411-41fc-be35-4e6b5dcb9a89 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/02/15/pair-christian-colleges-quietly-cracking-down-lgbtq-acceptance As America reels from the exposure of a massive child sexual abuse scandal in the Southern Baptist Convention, we should pause to take stock of the culpability of the broader conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture. Fri, 15 Feb 2019 04:05:51 EST Chrissy Stroop eaf86ab7-5513-457d-9c52-b5d420a5ab23 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/02/08/supreme-court-conservatives-allow-execution-muslim-prisoner-despite-religious-freedom If you’re seeking justice or vindication of your religious freedom, this Supreme Court has just said non-Christians need not apply. Fri, 08 Feb 2019 05:54:19 EST Andrew L. Seidel 7169af8c-05e2-442e-a01a-9669ae8749b4 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/02/07/senators-can-and-must-ask-about-nominees-religious-beliefs Questioning federal nominees on religion has been decried as a violation of the Constitution’s ban on religious tests. But not only does it do nothing of the kind, there’s good reason to think Article VI actually requires these questions. Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:02:24 EST Andrew L. Seidel afa1c635-b2d1-492f-adbd-4b3d4ab22b5b