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Mike Bickle is the founder and director of the International House of Prayer (IHOP) and one of the pioneers of the apostolic and prophetic movement (also known as the New Apostolic Reformation or NAR).

Yesterday, for the first time, we heard about Christian Nationalism in a government conversation about the January 6 insurrection. The conversation some of us had been having about Christian…

James Ault is a writer and documentary filmmaker based in Northampton, MA. His first film, Born Again (1987), focused on the life of a fundamentalist Baptist church in Worcester, MA. He later wrote a book about the same church, Spirit and Flesh (2004), which The Washington Post called “the best single-volume explanation of why American fundamentalist Christianity thrives among certain people.”

Last week, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona) introduced a bill that would prohibit abortion access nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy – with no exceptions for rape, incest, or health of the mother — based on the scientifically unsound claim that fetuses have developed the ability to feel pain by then.

Founded in 2008, Personhood USA has taken the lead in arguing for legally recognizing “fetal personhood,” which would prohibit abortion at any time by stating that an embryo is a “person” from the moment of conception.

Recently, Atlantic writer Derek Thompson tweeted an image of two graphs of religious survey data. The first showed the number of people who say they “believe in God without a doubt,” broken down by…

The documentary God Loves Uganda, which depicts the role of American conservative evangelicals in generating vicious antigay campaigns in Uganda, has received acclaim at film festivals across the continent.

Mark Regnerus’ report claimed that children of same-sex parents faced substantial disadvantages compared to those of different-sex parents. Unfortunately for Regnerus, though, the “science” of his study has proven to be bogus.

UPDATE, July 27: The Catholic journalist Tony Spence points out that the Diocese of Lansing Schools have their own masking requirement, in keeping with Michigan state law. In an F.A.Q., the district…

In January, the local Kansas paper Wichita Eagle anticipated that “at least four bills to crack down on illegal immigrants are expected in Kansas this year.” Given the overwhelming majority of Republican politicians in the Kansas legislature, the Tea Party-leanings of about one-fourth of the House, and the state’s rapidly growing Latino population, predictions of new anti-immigration bill proposals would seem secure.