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(RNS) — The largely virtual community sits in a rare liminal space between two sides of a culture war.

June 3, 2021 Russell Moore, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has been one of the most anti-Trump Christians in a religious denomination full of MAGA cultists. He regularly noted the obvious hypocrisy between Trump’s actions and Christians’ supposed values. He called on Trump to resign. He said he would vote for Trump’s second impeachment if he were in Congress. All that made him an anomaly in the world of conservative Christians. It certainly put him at odds with the SBC’s leadership. That’s not to say he’s a progressive by ...

“One of the trustees stated that my answer was ambiguous,” Walker wrote in the statement. “I agreed and stated there is much ambiguity in this area in our culture right now.” Things Walker said he was not asked about include “my tenure packet, my profession (social work) or anything else related to the service to my university.” Letters from his tenure packet that he submitted as part of his HLC complaint show that the faculty vote in favor of his tenure was unanimous (23 in favor, zero against, three abstentions), and that he was highly recommended for tenure by his dean and depa...

Over the past decade, significant pillars of the evangelical community have wavered in their convictions about marriage and human sexuality. In 2014, World Vision announced it would hire Christians in same-sex relationships—only to reverse course after a backlash threatened donations. Things have gone differently for Bethany Christian Services, one of the country’s leading adoption providers, which recently disclosed its plan to place children with same-sex couples. While the organization stressed that “discussions about doctrine are important,” the decision effectively severs a Chris...

   One could well image Republican political consultants, especially at the state level, drawing up hit lists as to the issues they would leverage planning for the 2022 Congressional and state elections.  At the top of the list is stopping increased voter turnout. Republicans know that more voters, especially among people of color, equals more Democratic victories. So, as evident in the 2020 election, particularly in Georgia, Republican-controlled state legislatures are moving aggressively to restrict voter participation. The Brennan Center reports that as of March 24, legislators have i...