Skip to main content

wallbuilders

Religion Dispatches
“Mamas are the key political force in 2024 and we need to harness that energy!” Ron DeSantis called down from the stage in the Franklin Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia, where 650…
Article
Religion Dispatches
David Barton’s post, “ America’s Most Biblically-Hostile President,” details a theme that has become known to the public largely through the Gingrich/Santorum bloc: that Barack Obama has led the most actively anti-Christian administration in American history. But given Obama’s frequent Christian testimony—explicit enough to make most founding fathers uncomfortable with its public expression of private matters—how can this view be so widely held?
Article
Religion Dispatches
Let’s just face the facts and not kid ourselves anymore. It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee… er, tea. The Republican Party is not a political party but is now a full-fledged religious movement.
Article
Religion Dispatches
There’ll be no baby-making Barry White music played while reading the “The Marriage Vow: a Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family.”
Article
Religion Dispatches
Religious right historian makes explicit that he believes only Christianity is protected by the Constitution.
Article
Religion Dispatches
The issue is not Christian conservatives advocating their views in the public square. The problem, rather, is their claim (at least in places such as The Daily Show or the New York Times) that their Providentialist beliefs and readings of documents from the past represent a kind of legitimate scholarship that should have its place in the public “debate.”
Article
Religion Dispatches
A window into a world where ‘freedom’ is purely economic.
Article
Religion Dispatches
While the current assault on unions seems driven mostly by the billionaire Koch brothers and corporate-funded groups, religious right leaders and activists have spent decades creating fertile soil for anti-union campaigns through the promotion of biblical capitalism.
Article
Religion Dispatches
Only in the world of Glenn Beck can he both carry on the legacy of Martin Luther King and be the star student of a “biblical worldview” that minimizes slavery and claims that modern-day conservatives are the champions of racial justice.
Article