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What helped fuel the toxic blend of religious and political fervor displayed by some on January 6, 2021? For anyone seeking answers, The New Apostolic Reformation may be the most important movement you’ve never heard of. Illustrations by Scott Bakal There’s an insurgent new political force in American Christianity that is bringing about a powerful
READ MOREAs federal lawmaking stalls, more state legislatures venture into culture-war territory. One target? The hiring practices of religious institutions. Hyper partisanship and split-party control of the U.S. Congress has gridlocked the 2023–2024 federal legislative session. In contrast, states with majority red or majority blue legislatures have become hotbeds of culture-war-related lawmaking. There has been much
READ MOREHow the culture wars are redefining evangelicals and religious liberty.Illustrations by Jon Krause This November, roughly 82 percent of evangelical voters are expected to cast their votes for Donald Trump. However implausible evangelical support for Trump seemed in 2015 when he first ran for the Republican nomination, evangelicals have become his most loyal supporters. So
READ MOREA group of Christian college students consider the intersection of faith and civic duty. Gen Z voters are preparing to make their mark in November’s presidential election with a projected 7 to 9 million new voters, born between 1997 and 2013, set to cast their first ballot. In all, there are a staggering 40 million
READ MOREIn Maine, Battle Continues Over State Funding for Religious Schools Can Maine require religious schools to adopt LGBTQ nondiscrimination policies as a condition of receiving state funds via a tuition assistance program? The answer, according to a recent federal court ruling, is “Yes—for now.” This is the latest development in an ongoing saga that kicked
READ MORESeventh-day Adventist editor Joseph Waggoner was a firsthand witness to the threats to civil and religious liberties in America from the 1850s to the 1880s. He was not blind to the faults he saw in a Southern-controlled Congress. In 1858 he condemned the federal government for its “slaveocratic practices” and declared that in Congress, the
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