It’s All About Me
- September/October 2024
- September 1, 2024
As 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 MOREWhat 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 MOREIn the coming election, if you truly care about religious freedom, you’ll vote Republican. Unless, of course, you’re concerned about Christian nationalism and Project 2025 and its goal of Christianizing America through law, in which case you’ll vote Democrat. However, if you’re alarmed that young people in public schools are being exposed to militant secular
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
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 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
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