Last Week in America, Our Worst Demons Emerge

Last Week in America, Our Worst Demons Emerge

Last week in America, our worst demons emerged from the shadows. On three occasions, America’s worst tendencies were on full display, demonstrating a country suffering from the ongoing consequences of racial bigotry, the widening divide of political polarization and...

Five Facts about Dominionism

(RNS) In recent weeks, an arcane and scary-sounding religious term has crept into the lexicon of the 2012 campaign, tripping from the tongue of everyone from MSNBC broadcaster Rachel Maddow to conservative Christian leader Ralph Reed. Depending on whom you ask,...

Dominionism: A Danger in Churches and Politics

Thirty-six years ago, I enrolled for my first semester of studies at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. That was before the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, which made the seminary a ghost town. In the mid-1970s,...