https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to quiverfull en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/14/weeks-meeting-will-sbc-vote-voddie-baucham-homeschooling-star-who-embraces-right-wing On March 4, news broke that African Christian University dean Voddie Baucham was asked to accept a nomination to be President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Baptist denomination in the world—a denomination also in the spotlight at… Tue, 14 Jun 2022 05:39:36 EDT R.L. Stollar 800c87ca-2f16-4abe-9c8a-4da811f6a616 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/03/21/behind-inclusive-sounding-ads-100-million-pr-blitz-jesus-its-same-old-conservative This month, a $100 million advertising campaign and website have been launched nationwide to help a particular figure rebrand. In the current climate, just who, do you think, might warrant such a massive PR blitz? My own answer would be… Mon, 21 Mar 2022 04:50:51 EDT Chrissy Stroop 26a7f825-7909-4f1c-b371-e32c3ed84988 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/05/04/inside-evangelical-beliefs-and-practices-facilitate-abuse-families-duggars Last Thursday, Josh Duggar’s sexual misconduct once again brought his reality TV-famous family into the spotlight. The 33-year-old was arrested Thursday on federal charges of receiving and possessing child sexual abuse materials, charges that carry a potential sentence of 20… Tue, 04 May 2021 02:40:31 EDT Caroline Matas 3d2fc83c-8612-448b-9ee0-a11304482185 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/05/03/josh-duggar-arrest-child-sexual-abuse-material-part-systemic-problem-evangelicalism Last Thursday, April 29, former reality TV star Josh Duggar was arrested by federal authorities and held without bail. On Friday, the charges dropped: downloading and possession of child sexual abuse material (still often referred to, problematically, as “child porn”)… Mon, 03 May 2021 04:07:25 EDT Chrissy Stroop 3f918bde-997f-4ea8-94e3-8251e79eba53 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/12/19/devils-dozen-best-new-religion-journalism-books-decade Since the turn of this century, following the news is like experiencing a daily repudiation of the so-called “secularization hypothesis”—the idea that modernization renders a culture less religious. Over the past two decades we’ve seen the increasing power of the… Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:12:26 EST Ed Simon 3759ea03-af56-4fcb-817b-2b94e3a50478 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/06/13/when-fundamentalism-follows-you-out-door-transphobic-statement-exposes-exvangelical While the “exvangelical” community was designed to help former evangelicals heal from a toxic environment, a subgroup of exvangelicals calling itself the “Magdalene Collective” released a statement that’s been called transphobic and that many see as a replication of the very abusive patterns from which they’d been trying to escape. Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:30:23 EDT Chrissy Stroop 431a3c9b-8965-4e0a-8f3c-6d87be1d745f https://religiondispatches.org/2017/11/13/why-roy-moores-evangelical-supporters-wont-abandon-him Amidst shocking allegations that Roy Moore pursued relationships with girls ranging in age from 14-18 years old when he was in his 30s, a new poll shows that 37% of evangelicals are “more likely” to vote for Moore, while another… Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:49:21 EST Julie Ingersoll 9b1b344b-e0fe-4c9e-98ad-847f87316b3f https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/30/five-signs-atwoods-handmaids-tale-dystopia-may-be-nigh Pending dystopia, it appears, is in the eye of the beholder. Here at RD, Diane Winston notes that Vice President Mike Pence makes a chilling stand-in for the “Commander” in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale, a representative of what “quiet, white… Tue, 30 May 2017 10:58:45 EDT Patricia Miller c1240db4-876a-4fff-a1f8-b90eca0f4d3c https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/22/pence-presidency-would-give-margaret-atwoods-dystopian-vision-run-its-money Talkin’ ‘bout my generation. Mon, 22 May 2017 04:36:28 EDT Diane Winston 7278b9c2-2d3f-440d-9d1c-69823f8ceecb https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/06/how-fringe-theocratic-movement-helped-shape-religious-right-we-know-it A Q&A with Julie Ingersoll on the history of Christian Reconstructionism as told in her new book: Building God’s Kingdom. Thu, 06 Aug 2015 04:04:04 EDT Sarah Posner c6ad1b46-8082-4352-b795-ec01e9214635 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/27/did-duggars-fundamentalism-cause-sexual-abuse-not-so-fast Now that the sexual abuse allegations against Josh Duggar have resurfaced and made the news, many people are inquiring whether the Duggars’ belief system perpetuates sexual abuse. In light of other high-profile sexual abuse scandals among the Duggars’ associates—most notably… Wed, 27 May 2015 11:52:18 EDT Sarah Morice-Brubaker 0097b038-5fd7-45dc-924a-aaba7518c8a7 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/01/24/uncle-sugar-religious-bogeyman Why Uncle Sugar threatens Mike Huckabee’s religiously conceived masculinity. Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:24:17 EST Sarah Posner 984fadf1-cea2-444f-976a-729b58de1ed9 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/10/07/saving-teens-obama-when-bible-study-goes-wrong I just returned from watching 2016: Obama’s America, arch-conservative Dinesh D’Souza’s election-year documentary, which I went to because I wanted to see it at our former church, a central Nebraska Salvation Army congregation’s “Teen Night.” Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:46:50 EDT Vyckie Garrison 55006b65-422a-45cb-9fa0-94a1587fce3c https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/29/whoever-has-more-babies-wins Christian Reconstructionism gets honest. Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:38:01 EDT Kathryn Joyce c8d0f0c8-c8cd-464d-a6d4-52ccc7ef7a56 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/09/possibility-bachmann-believes-wifely-submission-irrelevant According to a recent essay by Sen. John Danforth, she just doesn’t, so it’s not. Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:57:23 EDT Julie Ingersoll be793847-c7fd-4faa-8971-1467418bdc0a https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/07/one-us-rick-santorum-and-politics-very-big-family “Seven kids! Seven kids!” one woman exlaimed at a Rick Santorum rally in Louisiana on March 21, when organizers asked people to say what they liked most about the ultra-conservative Catholic, homeschooling presidential candidate. Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:58:54 EDT Kathryn Joyce 52c7bb4c-3607-43fc-8ec4-428f8a6b9499 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/07/quiverfull-mom-stands-trans-partner Women who leave the faith have to cut off all ties, feminists say. Mon, 07 May 2012 04:23:25 EDT Katie Toth c141a00c-115e-42b6-a73e-fb07d90d48fa https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/12/biblical-patriarchy-advocates-celebrate-titanic-100th-women-and-children-first-theme The Christian Boy’s and Men’s Titanic Society’s revisionist history. Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:49:54 EDT Julie Ingersoll 2f887046-8c31-431b-8544-1dcfb89ef211 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/10/santorum-legacy-fertility-wars As he drops out, he leaves his religious legacy on the race. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:54:42 EDT Sarah Posner 74973dbd-81ed-4c3d-bb63-729c0e3efed9 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/07/lou-engles-bizarro-esther Encouraging women to claim power through humiliation. Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:29:52 EDT Katie Toth 6b482e6e-840f-4ec4-b246-755596c51199 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/11/08/discussing-new-duggar-pregnancy-without-being-sexist-jerkmuffin A handy guide. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:56:05 EST Sarah Morice-Brubaker a9787666-a602-451e-bb8f-56f90e47c1fd https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/11/cant-truss-white-conservatives-pledge There’ll be no baby-making Barry White music played while reading the “The Marriage Vow: a Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family.” Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:08:53 EDT Anthea Butler 36b41c5b-10fb-43cc-bfb5-39f7bd9d6064 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/02/09/taliban-dans-teacher-inside-bill-gothards-authoritarian-subculture 76-year-old never-married evangelist Bill Gothard teaches a form of wifely submission that another evangelical theologian has referred to as “the basest form of male chauvinism I have ever heard in a Christian context.” Sarah Posner had the chance to speak at length with the controversial religious leader, as well as with critics and former adherents. The picture that emerges shows the risk, and the devastation, of the abuse of spiritual authority. Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:19:07 EST Sarah Posner 7ff9123f-c16c-40da-8819-c4b2295e3ded https://religiondispatches.org/2010/11/07/rehabilitating-mccarthy-doug-phillips-festival-award Award-winning movie is perfect synthesis of Christian Right with Tea Party ideology. Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:04:02 EST Julie Ingersoll 31e5eaad-f392-4ae6-b26f-1482db10f1a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/10/25/replacing-godless-hollywood-bible-based-cultural-dominion For anyone wondering what the “culture” would look like if the Christian Right achieved its dream of “taking it back” from secularists, feminists, and the other dread enemies of God’s plan for a Christian America, the San Antonio Christian Film Festival, which begins next week, provides a telling… Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:41:05 EDT Julie Ingersoll a2610b15-280b-4a98-84cf-0217b6d8d254