Showing posts with label evangelicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evangelicals. Show all posts
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Commentary on Respect for Marriage Act and How Religious Groups — Notably, U.S. Catholic Bishops — Are Dealing with This Issue

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PRRI, " Support for Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People, by Religious Affiliation, 2015-2021 " An offering of interrela...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Poolboys, Ménages à Trois Involving White Evangelical Leaders, Alleged Supreme Court Corruption, White Christian Nationalism: In the News

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The second installment of Jemar Tisby's video series on the topic "White Nation Under God," about which I've posted previ...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Journalist Michael Gerson, Who Died Yesterday, Writing About One of the "Worst Errors of Moral Judgment" He Made as a Columnist

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Michael Gerson, 18 January 2014, photo by AvianMaid, at Wikimedia Journalist Michael Gerson died yesterday. He was 58 years old and died of ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Jemar Tisby and Wendell Griffen on White Christian Nationalism: "Uses Christian symbolism to create a permission structure for the acquisition of political power and social control"

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Photo by Tyler Merbler from January 6 attempted insurrection Several days ago, I told readers  about a new a new series of videotaped/podca...
Friday, November 4, 2022

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Structural racism beliefs by party affiliation, 2022 PRRI American Values Survey Philip Bump comments on an ad just released by Steven Mill...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Robin Givhan: "The attack on Pelosi graphically highlights just how indecent this country has become"

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Nick Anderson's cartoon commentary on the Pelosi attack — and more Robin Givhan takes a look at one exceptionally disturbing aspect of...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Latest PRRI American Values Survey: White Evangelicals, the GOP Base, Continue to Be Outliers

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Jeff Brumley notes that, once again, white evangelicals turn out to be outliers on beliefs about race and American history in PRRI's l...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Robert P. Jones on 2022 PRRI American Values Survey: White Christian Nationalist Beliefs Now Affirmed by Half of Republicans and Half of White Evangelicals

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Robert P. Jones explains the significance of key findings of the latest American Values Survey , released this past week by his PRRI group:...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

In the News: PRRI American Values Survey, Assassination Attempt on Pelosi, Alito's Victimization Claims

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Photo of stack of newspapers by Daniel R. Blume, Wikimedia Commons 1. Philip Bump writes ,  As the 2016 election approached, it became clea...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Having Left Twitter Because Musk Acquired It, I'm Resuming This Blog

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  Photo of Leslie Jordan by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress, from discussion of his book How Y'All Doing?: MIsadventures and Mischief f...
Monday, November 9, 2020

"We Need to Talk About the White People Who Voted for Donald Trump": "Only Group in Which a Majority Voted for Trump"

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KOAT Albuqerque, " Native man goes viral with downtown celebration dance " Brandon Tensley, " Millions of White voters are on...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Nation with Soul of a Church on Eve of Historic Election: Weaponized Bibles Brandished with Guns as Nuns Choose to Be Photo Props for Trump

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Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone, " God and the GOP: Will evangelicals stay loyal to Trump? "  Charles Pierce writes ,  Just i...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: "In Reality, Evangelicals Did Not Cast Their Vote [for Trump] Despite Their Beliefs, but Because of Them"

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I recently read Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (NY: ...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

National Catholic Reporter Review of Sarah Posner, Unholy — "Sarah Posner's 'Unholy' implicates Catholics as well as evangelicals"

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Here's a review I wrote of Sarah Posner's Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , which appeared in th...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Commentary on the Discussion of Amy Coney Barrett's Religious Views and Their Pertinence to Her Supreme Court Nomination

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Robert Ellsberg on Twitter, 27 September 2020   Frank Cocozzelli, " A Catholic’s Case Against Amy Coney Barrett ": The issue with ...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Robert P. Jones's White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity — Excerpts Worth Noting

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As I did recently with Sarah Posner's new book   Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , I'd like to s...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Sarah Posner's Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump — Unholy Marriage of Alt- and Religious Right in the Trump Presidency

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I recently read Sarah Posner's new book Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump (NY: Penguin Random House, ...
Monday, July 13, 2020

News Commentary in Time of Plague: 43 Pages of Obituaries in Houston Today (and the Role Many US Christians Are Playing in the Pandemic)

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OUR LOCAL PAPER: The Houston Chronicle obituary section was 43 pages today. Let that sink in. — Rogelio Garcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

"As the Nation Grapples with Demographic Changes and the Legacy of Racism, Christianity's Role as a Cornerstone of White Supremacy Has Been Largely Overlooked"

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Germany confronted its racist legacy. Britain and the US must do the same | Susan Neiman https://t.co/VrmrtGM2x2 We cannot have a just...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Commentary on Trump's Powerful Religious Enablers Pence, Barr, Pompeo: "Have Convinced Themselves That They Are in a Biblical Moment"

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Trump officials claim there is no systemic racism in policing as protests sweep US https://t.co/ms1pX6dd9a pic.twitter.com/k3ZnN4Au5G —...