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On Wednesday, Zimbabweans will head to the polls to elect a new president. In May, current President Robert Mugabe, a dictator infamous for his human rights abuses, signed a new constitution that will usher in much-needed reforms, including a more expansive bill of rights, presidential term limits, and electoral amendments meant to keep elections free and fair.

The relative quiet in the wake of the election lulled many to a sense of security. Yet, White supremacist and “Patriot” militia organizing often surges when these movements lose ground in the electoral arena, shifting emphasis from ballot to bullet.

By 2003, racist forms of neopaganism were already outpacing traditional monotheistic versions of White supremacy.

Following the arrest of a gay rights advocate in Zambia, Political Research Associates’ religious and sexuality researcher Rev. Canon Dr. Kapya Kaoma writes about the attacks on gay people in his home country for the Lukasa Times. Zambian LGBTQ people are currently hiding out in fear of a government crack-down, triggered, officials claim, by attempts by two same-sex couples to receive marriage recognition. Rev. Kaoma wrote about the situation in August 2012 in a Public Eye article, “The Culture Wars Come to Zambia.”

During the first 2020 Presidential Debate, President Trump refused to denounce White supremacy and instead told far-right group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” once again mobilizing his militant base.

Did you catch the press release from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denouncing the slander against the International Israelite Board of Rabbis (IIBR), a Black rabbinical organization, by leaders of…

The concerted effort by the Religious Right to redefine Religious Freedom is steadily making its way through the courts and legislators.

Current conditions, in their broad strokes, were not unexpected. We now face a delicate, potentially volatile situation as we await official presidential election results.

Equality Ride, a project of Soulforce Q, tries to change the mindset of evangelical youth, but are they successful?

Great value is placed on being bipartisan in Washington, D.C., today. Or, at least, appearing bipartisan. That may be part of the secret of the remarkable success of Christian Right leader Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), who manages to appear bipartisan without actually being bipartisan.