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Raised inside white Southern Evangelicalism and lifted by it into elite Atlanta society, she reached midlife and found Scripture itself indicting the tradition's political alignment as the inverse of the Gospel it claims. She still sits in the pew on Sunday. She writes from inside, chapter and verse, on Christian Nationalism and the distance between what the Bible plainly says and what the Evangelical Right has made of it — testimony, not repudiation.
White Christian Louisiana is celebrating the freedom to let its public schools return to what they were before the federal government intervened — and the Trump administration's Justice Department, which spent decades fighting such cases before reversing course, has cleared the path. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ended more than sixty years of federal…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READUtah's lawmakers built a state law designed to strip Stephen King's novella collection Different Seasons — the book behind The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me — from the hands of every public school student in the state. The machinery works like this: when three or more Utah school districts — or two districts and five charter schools — independently determine that a book…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READA student in Lutz, Florida, graduated from Steinbrenner High School with an 11.99 weighted GPA — surpassing the previous Florida state record of 11.84. Vaibhav Bhaskar earned it by completing 20 Advanced Placement classes and 24…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READUtah Silenced Hope in Every Public School Utah's book-ban apparatus pulled stories of hope and innocence from every public school in the state and called it protection. In July 2026, four Utah school districts — Davis, Jordan, Tooele, and…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is hijacking religious liberty to license discrimination against patients. It has reorganized the civil rights office of the United States Department of Health and Human Services so that conscience and religious…
2026-07-12 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration is hijacking religious liberty to license discrimination against patients. It has reorganized the civil rights office of the United States Department of Health and Human Services so that conscience and religious freedom are "at the top." The Department of Justice followed on Friday with a religious-liberty report that takes aim at vaccine mandates and…
2026-07-11 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration hollows out federal special education oversight via administrative relocation. They are preserving the law on paper. They are moving the work that makes the law real to a building where the phones will not be answered. The Department of Education is dismantling the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by relocating every person, every function,…
2026-07-09 · 6 MIN READCru's missionaries are inside VRChat. The sentence is worth pausing on. Cru is the organization founded as Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951 by Bill and Vonette Bright at UCLA — the outfit that put The Four Spiritual Laws tract and the…
2026-07-07 · 4 MIN READThe Texas Republican apparatus is using the name of Jesus to terrorize Muslim families in everyday life across the state. A woman walks into a Texas grocery store, sees two Muslim women, and begins to scream. "Islam is a terrorist…
2026-06-29 · 5 MIN READThe Texas State Board of Education voted 9-5 along party lines on June 26 to require public schools to deliver Protestant-translation Bible readings to five million children beginning in 2030. The mandate covers more than 200 required…
2026-06-29 · 4 MIN READThe Evangelical legalist apparatus is criminalizing medicine to kill women. Justice Clarence Thomas, dissenting this spring, declared that the distribution of mifepristone through the mail was, in his precise word, a "criminal enterprise."…
2026-06-25 · 6 MIN READThe Christian Nationalist book-ban apparatus weaponizes Scripture to shut children out of the kingdom of heaven. That is the only honest way to read the infrastructure now driving the national campaign to strip books from school and public…
2026-06-25 · 3 MIN READ
Bishop Edir Macedo ran a bank whose books were fiction. The Federal Police of Brazil launched Operation Mirage on Tuesday, executing search warrants and freezing assets equivalent to some $125 million, because Banco Digimais — the…
2026-06-23 · 5 MIN READDeSantis is eliminating nursing and tourism programs that serve working people to expand a conservative ideology project that costs nearly $495,000 per degree.¹ On July 1, New College of Florida — the 900-student liberal arts institution…
2026-06-21 · 3 MIN READLet me show you what is actually happening in that photograph of the Kennedy Center, because it's a sight the Bible's plain language has long since trained us to recognize. A tarp the color of a politician's suit covers the space where a…
2026-06-16 · 4 MIN READThe Evangelical coalition that claims to protect children built an apparatus that pins fathers to the concrete outside their children's schools. ICE agents held a man facedown on the sidewalk outside Commodore John Rodgers…
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READIn Richland Parish, a rural Louisiana district of twenty thousand people, some public-school teachers are opening bonus checks for $50,935. The checks are real. The sales-and-use-tax revenue that printed them is real, more than doubled to…
2026-06-12 · 4 MIN READThe hotel ballroom in San Antonio smelled like perfume and all-natural deodorant, three thousand young women in shift dresses and quiet‑luxury tones processing past vendors selling beef‑tallow hand cream, organ‑meat seasoning, and…
2026-06-11 · 7 MIN READFor decades, white Evangelicalism sold the modern state of Israel as a sacred covenant, a non-negotiable article of faith stitched into end-times prophecy and enforced by a pulpit apparatus that brooked no dissent. That architecture…
2026-06-11 · 7 MIN READAlyse Benjamin grew up in a Pentecostal preacher’s house where the rules were binary, loud, and enforced by a grandmother who knew every verse that kept a woman in her place. Last year, she dropped her son at college, looked around a quiet…
2026-06-10 · 4 MIN READI have sat in enough women’s ministry classes and heard enough triumphalism from the pulpit to recognize the exact shape of the theology that put us here. It is not a theological accident. It is the predictable output of a captured-brand…
2026-06-10 · 5 MIN READheadline: "Political utility is not biblical redemption" The chasm is narrow and it is well-lit. Scripture makes a hard distinction between worldly guilt and godly grief. The Apostle Paul writes it plainly in 2 Corinthians 7:10: "Godly…
2026-06-10 · 4 MIN READTruss and Farage import American political idolatry and sell it to British voters as salvation. The machinery has a name: the Conservative Political Action Committee, the American right's premier fundraising and mobilization apparatus,…
2026-06-09 · 5 MIN READDr. Coll traded a living woman’s fertility to protect a theoretical embryo. Harmonie Perrone, twenty‑eight years old, had already lost one fallopian tube to an ectopic pregnancy. When the third came, she drove to Advocate Good Shepherd…
2026-06-08 · 3 MIN READThere's something obscene about a roomful of politicians leaping to their feet and chanting "Viva el Papa!" minutes after being told they are moral failures. But that's the show the Spanish parliament staged this week: Pope Leo XIV, an…
2026-06-08 · 7 MIN READThis week a Louisiana parish published a weekly bulletin that placed a convicted sexual predator’s name in the “intentions” column — Anthony Odiong, sentenced on June 2 to life in prison for exploiting his clerical authority to sexually…
2026-06-06 · 4 MIN READA teacher's aide in Darke County, Ohio, watches her gas prices climb past four dollars a gallon and calls it a righteous exchange. A multi-generational farmer in Mercer County takes a several-thousand-dollar loss when the president rattles…
2026-06-06 · 9 MIN READThe hallways of Jesuit High School in New Orleans have been scrubbed clean of something far worse than teenage mischief. The school just agreed to a seven-figure settlement—a pay-off to a man who says two janitors molested him on the…
2026-06-05 · 4 MIN READSt. Paul City Attorney Irene Kao declined to file state charges against the protesters who interrupted a worship service at Cities Church, citing "insufficient evidence" to meet the statutory standard while claiming to balance "equally…
2026-06-04 · 6 MIN READThe House of Representatives voted 215 to 208 on Wednesday to strip the president of his unilateral authority to continue a war in Iran, and the four Republican defectors who crossed the aisle were acting on the oldest warning in the…
2026-06-04 · 5 MIN READWe who have spent decades inside the apparatus of institutional religion know exactly what it looks like when a tradition's internal machinery begins to prioritize the sensational over the substantial. When the feverish curiosity…
2026-06-03 · 5 MIN READThe question hangs in the air, heavy with the arrogance of people who have spent forty years turning Scripture into a sledgehammer for a political coalition that hates the poor. Sean Hannity wondered on-air whether the pope had “even read…
2026-06-03 · 3 MIN READRobert Kenyon, the Reform UK candidate for Makerfield, wants the electorate to see him as the “local lad” — a plumber and councillor who hears the voices of a constituency he claims has been ignored for forty years. But in the lead-up to…
2026-06-02 · 4 MIN READIt begins with the prophets. Ezekiel 34 is not a metaphor. It is an indictment of the professional class. “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves. … I will rescue my flock from their mouths; no longer will they be…
2026-06-02 · 6 MIN READWe who were raised inside the American Evangelical machine understand the peculiar, soul-crushing comfort of a system that provides the answer before the question has even been properly felt. We were given lists, outlines, and pre-packaged…
2026-06-01 · 3 MIN READWe who served inside the medical apparatus know what a real diagnosis sounds like. It is not the polite hedging of a press release, the careful language of a Super PAC script, or the legislative jargon that buries a patient under…
2026-05-31 · 7 MIN READWe who served the Evangelical apparatus for decades recognize in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s new prison book ban a familiar shape. As Laney Hawes of the Texas Freedom to Read Project warned, when the state claims it must…
2026-05-28 · 5 MIN READState legislators are weaponizing religious protection to insulate political enforcers from public dissent. Four states—Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Kansas—rushed laws this year to criminalize worship-service interruptions, a direct…
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READNew York’s worship-buffer law is a fortress theology that turns church doorsteps into border checkpoints. We who grew up inside the Evangelical apparatus know how quickly a house of worship becomes a political stage set. We know the…
2026-05-27 · 3 MIN READChristian Nationalism demands what Jesus refused. A new Pew Research survey tested three ideas—that the Bible should override the people's will in lawmaking, that government should stop enforcing church-state separation, that the United…
2026-05-25 · 3 MIN READWe who were inside the Evangelical apparatus for thirty years have watched the machinery turn Scripture into a blueprint for power, and the machinery has not stopped. The Christian Nationalist apparatus is building its tech-empire on the…
2026-05-24 · 5 MIN READWhite American evangelicals trade the image of God for the god they invented and now worship. As the Vatican prepares to release the encyclical magnifica humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s call to safeguard the human person in the age of artificial…
2026-05-24 · 5 MIN READThe Trump-Christian Nationalist apparatus has drafted young conservatives into an empire war they never wanted — and the stain on their reputations is the least of what they're being asked to pay. We who served the apparatus for thirty…
2026-05-23 · 4 MIN READFaisal Rashid jumped out of bed at 3 a.m. to secure a spot for the Hajj. Noor‑e‑ain Shahid scrambled to rearrange her children’s care. Ahmed Sufyan worries his return flight will be grounded. American Muslims are breaking in new walking…
2026-05-23 · 9 MIN READThe Department of Homeland Security is reaching for the mountain. Forty thousand pilgrims have climbed Mount Cristo Rey each Good Friday for generations, ascending Sunland Park toward a twenty-nine-foot limestone Christ. Now the state…
2026-05-21 · 3 MIN READThe Southern university system harvests Black athletic glory and converts it into the political capital that strips Black communities of sovereignty. The NAACP’s “Out of Bounds” campaign, laid out in plain language by Derrick Johnson and…
2026-05-20 · 5 MIN READThe Michigan State University Board of Trustees has redefined dissent as an ethics violation, and it did not even bother to hide the mechanism. By a 5–3 vote on Sunday night, the board adopted an updated ethics policy whose central clause…
2026-05-20 · 6 MIN READThe Southern athletic establishment exploits Black bodies for profit while white voters suppress Black voting rights to protect that exploitation. The NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus are naming a reality that the sprawling,…
2026-05-19 · 4 MIN READMichigan State University’s trustees have enacted a legal gag order to protect a compromised president, weaponizing the very concept of fiduciary duty to silence dissent. In a single meeting, the board voted to increase President Kevin…
2026-05-19 · 6 MIN READPete Hegseth wants the United States military to impose Christian beliefs on every nation on earth. That sentence will be denied. The denial is the political operation, and naming the operation is the work this column was put on the page…
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