by Bruce T. Gourley | May 14, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
As you read this, I am transitioning into a new job as the editor of “Church & State Magazine,” the publication of Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the leading non-profit in America advocating for church and state...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Mar 27, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, Feature-, Opinion
Recently, the Alabama Supreme Court escalated the white Christian nationalist war on our constitutionally secular United States. They did so in a peculiar way, falsely arguing—in the decision LePage v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine—that a fertilized egg is a...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Feb 27, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
In Lone Star country earlier this month, Russian white Christian nationalists cheered on white American Christian nationalists energized by Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s talk of Texas seceding from the United States. “In the conflict between Texas and the United...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Jan 30, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, Feature-, Opinion
The four-and-a-half-year war is finally over. No, I don’t mean the American Civil War, which, culturally speaking, has never ended. Instead, I am referring to the latest civil war among Methodists. The first Methodist Civil War lasted from 1844-45. Short but...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Jan 9, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: Nurturing Faith Journal is an autonomous, national journal offering thoughtful analysis, inspiring features and helpful resources for Christian living. This is an excerpt from “‘A Most Flourishing Civil State’: How One Tiny New England Colony Defied...
