Christian Right

The Tea Party is claiming credit for the Republican trouncing of the Democrats last night, but the Tea Party wave is just an illusion.

Signs of the times.

Religious right leaders scramble to frame Tea Party victories and consolidate the Tea Party energy for the “pro-family agenda.”

Some conservative Christians assert that the Constitution is “godless.”

And many climate change deniers also seem to drink from the same trough as fundamentalist creationists.

While many evangelicals continue to treat Halloween as evil the holiday actually includes significant Christian contributions.

In August 2010, more than 400 African Anglican Bishops gathered in Entebbe, Uganda, for their second All-Africa Bishops Conference, which attracted global media attention because of the debates on LGBT rights.

Dept of Ed efforts to prevent more teen suicides evoke the predictable and the truly bizarre.

Far-right ties.

Tribulation Trail, and other “Hell Houses” are not solely managing hypothetical fears of what may happen in end-times scenarios; they are about managing fears about the present and imagining a way out now. This “way out” is much more than metaphysical. It seems to fit with the material realities of what it is like to be a member of the working class of the U.S., by offering a sense of orientation and self-worth to people who have been demoralized and exploited in almost every other possible way.