Christian Right

Life in the Jamestown colony, pious as colonists were, was more hell than heaven.

This is an excerpt of an article originally published at Colorlines. Last December, Care Net—the nation’s largest network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers—featured a birth announcement of sorts on the website of its 10-year-old Urban Initiative. Under the headline, “Plans Underway for Care Net’s Newest Center in Kansas City, Mo.!” a block of upbeat text described how a predominantly white, suburban nonprofit called Rachel House had “made contact” with “various African American pastors and community leaders,” who helped them “plant” a “pregnancy resource center” in a predominantly black, poor section of downtown Kansas City.

With departure of DuBois, is there change coming for the faith-based office?

Shea helped the worshiping faithful understand the purchasing power of Christian consumers as an extension of their piety; as form of devotional practice that encompassed the ordinary pleasures of music entertainment.

On the wrong side of history—again.

My grandfather, born to immigrants in 1878, was undoubtedly familiar with the all-but-forgotten figure of Robert Green Ingersoll, the “Great Agnostic,” who popularized Darwin for the millions, who championed the disgraced Thomas Paine, and who kept alive the important tradition of American free thought during the last quarter of the 19th century.

It’s hard to overstate Phillips’ influence on today’s religiously-inflected conservatism.

Or just endless tenure in a job that doesn’t require an IQ test.

Hundred of thousands of evangelical Christians have gathered at TheCall prayer rallies organized by Lou Engle, a major leader in the political movement called the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), the subject of a new article by PRA Fellow Rachel Tabachnick. Engle claims that there has been a “shift in the heavens and that God has thrown a window open,” so that we “have entered a season of time in a massive [spiritual] war.”

Paul Cameron is a psychologist who claims homosexual people are a danger to public health and the social fabric of America. His studies explicitly argue that homosexuality is a disturbing psychological illness. Cameron often makes links between homosexuality and child abuse, pedophilia, a shorter life expectancy, poor parenting skills, drug abuse, and violent crimes.