https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to ten commandments en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/01/speaker-mike-johnson-allow-privately-run-national-prayer-breakfast-heart-capitol Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast will take place in the U.S. Capitol Building’s National Statuary Hall for the first time, congressional sources tell me. Use of the hall is controlled by the House, meaning the move had to be approved by… Thu, 01 Feb 2024 05:06:27 EST Jonathan Larsen f486833f-34f6-46b0-a8ef-f73822508316 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/11/oklahoma-bill-would-violate-basic-freedoms-rewrite-ten-commandments In the waning days of 2023, a banner year for Christian nationalism, Oklahoma State Representative Jim Olsen introduced a bill that would force every public school to display his version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Olsen, a Sunday… Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:44:49 EST Andrew L. Seidel b7875ce8-e7b1-4b84-bd10-6f0e7492acad https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/07/bill-mill-ennialism-arkansas-end-times-politics-may-be-coming-state-near-you It was the best of the end times. It was the worst of the end times. It was the age of Trump. It was 2019. Trump was compared with the greatest of God’s biblical champions. Things would never be the… Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:43:35 EDT Frederick Clarkson 77201a1d-2b34-4fdf-a065-5f9e082fb830 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/04/was-alexander-hamilton-jewish-does-it-matter For all the ink spilled on Alexander Hamilton by historians, and for all the buzz generated by the Hamilton musical, there’s a hidden history to this iconic founder that never made its way to the page or the stage: Hamilton… Wed, 04 Aug 2021 05:09:15 EDT Andrew Porwancher 8288a1b2-d155-4b1d-8774-5604dc650c39 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/07/12/exclusive-christian-right-bill-mill-project-blitz-hasnt-gone-away-its-just-gotten-more In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became even more of a secret. When RD first reported on Project Blitz in April 2018 the website featured their annual state legislative playbook of model… Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:39:07 EDT Frederick Clarkson 6c54e30d-1e42-45b1-bdd3-9e471c13c6dd https://religiondispatches.org/2021/04/27/claiming-we-birthed-nation-nothing-cnns-rick-santorum-gives-master-class-christian Dear CNN, Many questioned your decision to hire Rick Santorum as a senior political commentator back in January 2017. Not because he’s a conservative—diversity of opinion can be valuable—but because he’s a bigot. His bigotry toward LGBTQ people was already… Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:19:26 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 1c442f39-19ee-4368-ac48-ea237b5a8c78 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/03/24/what-passover-taught-me-about-being-black As Passover approaches this weekend I often reminisce about how, as a young child, the highlight of my Easter weekend wasn’t watching the Greatest Story Ever Told , The Robe , or other classic Easter movies. For me, it was… Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:43:56 EDT A. E. Brooks-Key 649ca0b7-02b6-4107-9dcc-d6e5103e5b43 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/03/bible-may-be-stranger-you-think-and-why-it-matters Despite the Bible’s ubiquity, despite the Bible’s appearance as a book like any other on our twenty-first century shelves, despite its frequent citation in private and public discourse, the Bible regularly—on closer inspection—shatters our preconceptions and assumptions. This, I argue… Wed, 03 Feb 2021 04:24:33 EST Kristin Swenson d05109b1-9325-44ec-93a2-41182fd81351 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/06/problem-isnt-just-legal-efforts-overturn-elections-problem-bad-faith As Donald Trump’s time in the White House winds down, Republicans across the nation continue to sabotage democracy by refusing to accept election results. Trump himself reached to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a deeply corrupt and possibly… Wed, 06 Jan 2021 01:40:20 EST Daniel Schultz 2f26ff93-ce0f-40e7-8f45-57ade2f6cb47 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/18/christian-terrorist-tx-was-paid-investigator-prominent-gop-activists-and-donors On Tuesday, December 15, disgraced former Houston Police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was charged with aggravated assault for running an air conditioner repairman off the road and holding him at gunpoint, actions he took as part of a broader conspiratorial… Fri, 18 Dec 2020 01:00:42 EST Chrissy Stroop 5f55411d-5e56-4de6-b75c-f7a4a100efca https://religiondispatches.org/2020/10/20/how-us-conservatives-conjured-jesus-their-dreams It seems that when Donald Trump and his Republican enablers are able to seat a sixth right wing justice on the Supreme Court, our Lord Jesus will be doing backflips in heaven in pure ecstasy over this triumph for the… Tue, 20 Oct 2020 03:37:40 EDT Peter Laarman bcc53dbd-057f-4548-bf86-47036defc135 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/01/20/satanic-temple-attorney-discusses-cancelled-scottsdale-prayer-invite This week, on the 22nd and 23rd of January, The Satanic Temple (TST) and the city of Scottsdale will meet in court to determine whether TST’s lawsuit over a retracted prayer invitation will proceed to the Ninth Circuit Court of… Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:41:30 EST Joseph Laycock 3c9fe3d3-a655-4d0a-af73-0904cb536080 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/08/07/beyond-thoughts-and-prayers-how-christian-rights-politics-providentialism-keeps-america In order for the GOP leadership to continue to do nothing on guns they need loyal foot soldiers to deliver messaging that appeals to their base. What this messaging, familiar to those of us who grew up in the Christian Right, tells us about the “soul” of the Republican Party is not pretty. Wed, 07 Aug 2019 03:39:52 EDT Chrissy Stroop 6adefc20-1de3-48d6-92c7-214c22ced3de https://religiondispatches.org/2019/01/03/religious-freedom-battle-far-over-heres-what-look-2019 While the issues are piling up, the Supreme Court—and U.S. society more broadly—will have to face the questions ducked in Masterpiece Cakeshop, or else be willing to settle for a level of uncertainty that serves no one. Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:17:20 EST Patrick Hornbeck ec27ae95-8ca8-4bd4-ac5d-245f46891eb8 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/12/21/what-hail-satanists-got-busy-2018 From defending reproductive rights to run-ins with several TV shows, the Satanist community had a busy 2018. The only question going forward: Will internal tension sink the movement? Fri, 21 Dec 2018 10:51:29 EST Joseph Laycock ba2df3a4-1e17-4da9-b563-6a7f6aca3e79 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/11/19/despite-reversal-hillary-and-hellen-keller-christian-americanist-bias-remains-texas This year’s streamlining process managed to nudge the standards in the direction of less biased coverage of the world’s religions, but much work remains if Texas students are to receive balanced instruction. Mon, 19 Nov 2018 03:18:18 EST David R. Brockman ed4df9f7-26b4-422c-a675-ec6102e1e86a https://religiondispatches.org/2018/08/13/satanic-temple-organizing-rally-religious-liberty The trouble started in 2015 when Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert sponsored a bill to erect a Ten Commandments monument at the capitol. Mon, 13 Aug 2018 01:43:02 EDT Joseph Laycock dedef1b2-96c8-468e-ac96-6c91c53a23d0 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/16/faith-baiting-minnesota-and-elsewhere-follows-project-blitz-playbook-0 Critics say any such display of the Ten Commandments in this way, may also violate the Oklahoma state constitution. But whatever the fate of these bills, the Christian Right and the politicians who cater to it have a long game in mind, and most seem unaware of the game itself. Wed, 16 May 2018 01:35:24 EDT Frederick Clarkson 834209cc-29a8-42e7-b4a4-10168116587f https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/16/faith-baiting-minnesota-and-elsewhere-follows-project-blitz-playbook It’s election year in the United States and an episode from the very recent past may be prologue to an election season like nothing we’ve seen since the McCarthy era. The Christian Right recently sprung a trap, the origin of… Wed, 16 May 2018 11:50:11 EDT Frederick Clarkson adfb9633-c6c2-4079-9f95-4b84a53f214e https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/21/billy-graham-most-famous-religious-figure-20th-c-dies-99 Billy Graham, by any measure the most famous religious figure of the twentieth century, died today [at his home in Montreat, North Carolina]. He was ninety-nine years old. In a career that extended well over half a century, Graham took a simple evangelical message – give your heart… Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:19:11 EST Randall Balmer f659e9f3-2b80-49cf-b368-6597023eb733 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/08/gop-education-bill-would-radically-rewrite-religious-freedom-and-license-virtually-any Consider for a moment this chilling hypothetical. Imagine that the day after last summer’s white nationalist rally at the University of Virginia, the leaders of the group that marched through the Charlottesville campus shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans take themselves… Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:48:04 EST Patrick Hornbeck a466b487-bfa6-4d55-aa3a-1542c493c383 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/13/17th-century-roots-roy-moores-refusal-concede-election If we should change from a mixed aristocracy to mere democracy, first we should have no warrant in scripture for it: for there was no such government in Israel … A democracy is, amongst civil nations, accounted the meanest and… Wed, 13 Dec 2017 04:10:42 EST Karen E. Park 435bb89d-0241-4915-90b7-ad527968acf5 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/02/roy-10-commandments-moore-doesnt-want-reform-senate-he-has-higher-calling Much has already been written about the dangers Roy Moore—Alabama’s infamous “10 Commandments judge”—could pose if he wins the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. But given Moore’s swift primary dispatching of incumbent (and Trump-endorsed) Sen. Luther Strange, and… Mon, 02 Oct 2017 01:02:35 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 0298bd2b-5736-4866-ad15-6e3a99515053 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/21/old-sins-cast-long-shadows-americas-enduring-fascination-ten-commandments Author Jenna Weissman Joselit answers RD’s 10 Questions Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:00:34 EDT Jenna Weissman Joselit f41a21cb-73a5-46e4-8713-e8b429282bb9 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/03/will-millennials-forge-future-progressive-black-church An electric sermon lights up the night at a century-old conference for Black clergy. Thu, 03 Aug 2017 07:36:42 EDT Joshua L. Lazard b99fd232-a340-488f-9862-90efcb6aaaec