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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.
Dr. 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 Hospital in Illinois, bleeding and in pain, and asked for methotrexate — the standard, medically indicated treatment that would dissolve the…
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 American lecturing a secular nation on its vices from a platform provided by its legislature, received a standing ovation and ecstatic chants…
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…
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…
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…
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 important rights." The municipal docket has spoken. But the municipal docket does not replace the covenant. The church's record is already…
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 Bible. We who were inside the Evangelical apparatus for thirty years know the machinery. When the political coalition needs to justify an…
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…
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…
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…
4 MIN READThe reporting from the halls of Congress this week lays the machinery bare. The $1.8 billion so-called "anti-weaponization" fund—a slush pot for presidential allies that failed only by acting-attorney-general decision and federal court…
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…
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We 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
3 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…
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…
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…
9 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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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