Christian Right

Friends, I have read the Nashville Statement, and it is stupid. Like, really, really dumb. Final season of Friends dumb. Blotting out the sun dumb. So dumb that it forms less of a theological…

Author Antony Alumkal answers RD’s 10 Questions

Author Michael Muhammad Knight writes at Vice on “Editing Homophobia Out of the ‘Islamic Tradition.’” New Ways Ministry’s Bob Shine reflects on an interview conducted with former Vatican official…

As bipartisan reform efforts have steadily drifted rightward, the heavy hand of evangelicals in prison reform efforts has created new kinds of problems.

The bishops helped radicalize white Catholics to be favorable to Trump—which they were, with 60 percent backing him despite all-but-explicit condemnations by Pope Francis:

What might have seemed to most to be normal, if unusually acrimonious, political aggression was in fact a classic example of a right-wing strategy developed in the late 1980s: Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW).

On Friday, August 4, Paul Kagame celebrated a landslide victory in Rwanda’s presidential election, securing his third seven-year term as the small, East African country’s leader with nearly 99% of the vote.

Instead of houses and cars as evidence of faith, there is now an polished suggestion that you can have it all— the right body, a great spouse, and abundant opportunities—regardless of your socioeconomic status.

“Conservative Christians had long rejected aspects of expert knowledge, official science, reason, and their organs of circulation. They had been trained in a fundamentalist hermeneutics of suspicion.”

The paradox of post-evangelicals’ relationship to faith