Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) claimed this past weekend that Republicans will end up winning the 2026 midterms due in large part to God’s intervention. Johnson appeared on the far right program “This Week on Capitol Hill,” which is hosted by Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. During the July 25 episode, Johnson claimed that Americans “trust House Republicans…
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Over the weekend, thousands of people participated in the “Rededicate 250” national public prayer at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., held as a faith-based “jubilee” to purportedly celebrate the country’s upcoming birthday as “One Nation Under God.” Despite being widely promoted — and the Interior Department using at least $100 million in taxpayer funds to help hold the event — the…
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This past weekend, a prominent pro-Trump megachurch pastor said he believes the president has a better understanding of the Bible than Pope Leo XIV. In comments to Fox News, Pastor Robert Jeffress, who heads the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, reacted to news of a meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Leo, which happened earlier this month after weeks of Trump attacking…
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The Israeli military is removing and detaining the soldier who was shown sledgehammering the face of a Jesus Christ statue in a picture taken in a Christian village in southern Lebanon that generated controversy this week — just weeks after dropping charges against five soldiers who were allegedly caught on camera raping a Palestinian detainee. On Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released…
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As a philosopher, I am known for bringing a deeply uncomfortable truth to bear upon the hegemonic, hierarchical, and privileged embodied reality of whiteness. My aim has been to shape a critical discourse and produce a body of philosophical writing that reveals the ways in which whiteness functions as a mask, as a veil, to cover over the history of its violence. It does this through acts of denial…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel is the only place where Christians can thrive in the Middle East, after bombing countless churches and Christian sites across the region and amid outrage over a picture of an Israeli soldier taking a sledgehammer to the face of a statue of Jesus Christ in Lebanon. In a statement posted to X, Netanyahu said that he condemns…
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