Christian Right

In the wake of every mass shooting in this country, we have a brief moment where we talk about the guns used and the need for gun control. And then rapidly, the gun lobby, conservative politicians…

The Public Religion Research Institute recently highlighted an important statistic: nearly all Unitarian Universalists ( 97 percent ) support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ people. It’s a…

I don’t recall the specific date in late summer 1985—but I remember exactly where I was standing. In the sunshine, near the windows in the library of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. I was pulling…

Dominion theology—the idea that humans are created uniquely like God and given godlike rule over the rest of creation—is built on a very tiny bit of Bible, namely, a couple of verses in the first…

On Sunday, May 22, a third-party investigation of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention released a nearly 300-page report detailing the cover-up of hundreds of abuse accusations and an…

You know it’s coming. Every time a mass shooting captures the American public’s consciousness, leading to demands for sensible gun control, one or more Republicans will attempt to “ shut that whole…

For the second time in almost as many weeks, a mass shooter used an AR-15-style rifle to kill innocent Americans. On May 14, PG allegedly used a variation of the AR-15 to shoot 13 people, 10 of them…

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…

On Saturday, 18-year-old white supremacist P.G. drove to the “Tops” supermarket with the intention to kill people of color. He murdered ten people and wounded three others before he was arrested. All…

Anyone who grew up in the Christian Right could have told you that Roe v. Wade was never “settled law,” despite what the pundits said. We conservative evangelicals were always sincerely gunning for…