Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t ...
Oct 22, 2024 · On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and other apparatuses to “disrupt and degrade” Palestinian rights organizations and a range of progressive funding infrastructure.
The Trump Administration’s Approach to Immigration is Inspired …
Dec 12, 2024 · Trump recently appointed Tom Homan as his ‘ border czar,’ a first step toward implementing a scorched-earth immigration policy that includes large-scale detention of migrants and mass deportation (perhaps even for American citizens).While his policies have been widely criticized for their cruelties, those unfamiliar with the Book of Revelation might not realize that the once-and-future ...
Teflon Antichrist: How Did a President Who Fit the Role So Well …
Mar 30, 2021 · One of the more unexpected developments of Donald Trump’s presidency was his metamorphosis into an evangelical hero. American Christians didn’t just like his policies, they venerated him as a near supernatural being — the last hope against Antichrist.. Such a response, to any political leader, is unusual.
'The Quiet Damage' Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on …
Aug 21, 2024 · The outlines of QAnon conspiracy theories are by now familiar to many. The battle of good-versus-evil personified by Donald Trump and the Deep State, which somehow also embroils bizarre and gruesome allegations of child trafficking, drinking adrenaline compounds to get high, the ever-imminent arrest of Hillary Clinton, and aliens.
Is Putin a 'Real' Christian? To Understand This Conflict We Need to …
Mar 15, 2022 · Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Robert Saler. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Luce-Funded Recovering Truth: Religion, Journalism, and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era project in the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Her work is also supported by her participation as Senior Fellow in the “Orthodoxy and Human Rights” project, sponsored by ...
Meet Pete Hegseth, the Man Who Will Lead the Entire US Military …
Nov 13, 2024 · Jeff Sharlet. Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, adapted into a Netflix documentary series, and The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the ...
Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by …
Aug 13, 2024 · Almost as soon as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, attacks focused on his association with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) started to roll in. Harris herself is a Baptist.. Christianity Today played things safe, noting that Walz had upset conservative Christian leaders during his time in ...
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John Stoehr. John Stoehr is the editor and publisher of the Editorial Board, a newsletter about politics for normal people. He's a visiting assistant professor of public policy at Wesleyan, a fellow at the Yale Journalism Initiative, a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly, and a contributing editor for Religion Dispatches.
Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the …
Oct 17, 2024 · On October 12 th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in this or any election season was broadcast live from an all-day rally of tens of thousands of people on the Washington Mall. The event, called A Million Women, was staged by some of the leading apostles and prophets in the New Apostolic Reformation.. As evening fell, Ché Ahn, a Korean American apostle ...
Progressive Christian Election Response ‘Give us Barabbas’ May Be …
Nov 15, 2024 · Smith’s reframing challenges the anti-Jewish use of the Barabbas analogy and invites a re-evaluation of the political situation. By asserting that Trump supporters “chose white Jesus,” Smith shifts the focus from a simplistic “good versus bad” choice to one that interrogates the alignment of White American Christianity with power, dominance, and nationalism.The meme presumably caught ...