“At last — a book that critically examines how biblical interpretation fuels Christian Nationalism. The Bible According to Christian Nationalists is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and confront the theological foundations of this political moment.” - @drewstrait.bsky.social

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

The textbooks for my “Public Faith and Christian Nationalism” course are set. I'm excited to welcome six guest lecturers and step out of my comfort zone with a major social media experiment/lab on inoculative messaging. Yikes! Auditors are welcome...

👀 PRE-ORDER NOW: With Project 2025 in motion, the movement to turn the US into a Christian nationalist state is closer to success than ever. This is due to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, the new face of Christian nationalism. Read about his plan: www.wjkbooks.com/Products/066...

I was pleased to share my thoughts with David Renton for this article. There are a lot of good quotes from others as well here, including critique of Prevent in the UK and critique of the treatment of former members of hate groups as experts. (thread)

Anyway, it's been deeply depressing to cover extremism for nearly a decade, only now for sitting members of congress to tweet out the same sort of thing you'd have once seen on the daily stormer

This is so bad. IRS claims it can override an act of Congress (signed by Eisenhower & Reagan) to let churches endorse candidates: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u... This is bad for democracy but even worse for Christianity, pushing partisan pulpits: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-partis...

William Cavanaugh’s “Torture and Eucharist” has never been more relevant for the US context.

"According to the new America First agenda, if you are not born in America, then you can be taken away, stripped of your humanity, have your head shaved, be beaten and be tortured." That's the country they aspire for us to be. @timmiller.bsky.social with some rage:

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

With every bit I see about #AlligatorAlcatraz, I keep thinking of what @robertpjones.bsky.social said: "It's virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support."

Our roundup is here early for the holiday weekend! It features insights from @robertpjones.bsky.social, @angeladenker.bsky.social, @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social, @raushenbush.bsky.social, @drewstrait.bsky.social, @theb4np.bsky.social, @imillhiser.bsky.social, @michelleboorstein.bsky.social, and more.

Literally an open call for genocide. It'd be easier to write her off as an online lunatic if she wasn't influencing the national security policy of the United States. Who listens to her now?

Today’s issue of A Public Witness features a guest essay from @drewstrait.bsky.social centered on four creative proposals to disrupt Christian Nationalism within a distinctively Christian vernacular.

1st meeting of White House Religious Liberty Commission, being held at Museum of the Bible, opens with a prayer "in Jesus's holy name." That quickly shows that this isn't about true religious liberty for all but instead co-opting religious liberty for conservative Christianity.

If it feels like this moment is too much, as if it’s all going so fast, in some many directions—that is by design. Authoritarian seizure happens through expansive acceleration.

In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.

This is one of the most disturbing videos I've seen recently, so prepare yourself... I'm going to try to give some context for what's happening here, and why it should have all of us concerned about the spread of far-right Christian supremacy in America. 1/ www.instagram.com/reel/DKD4zhG...

If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.

The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.

An excerpt from my upcoming book on conspiracism & white evangelicalism in the United States:

NBC, CBS, and ABC News featured our work at #SCOTUS yesterday. This morning, our letter from Christian leaders denouncing Trump's so-called "Anti-Christian Bias Task Force" is leading the @axios.com homepage. @interfaithalliance.org is doing the work trying to prevent authoritarian theocracy!

If the Supreme Court reverses the Oklahoma court and allows the creation of a sectarian public school, it could largely dismantle church-state separation in public schools and put true religious liberty for all at risk.

Here's my take on major new @prripoll.bsky.social survey on #Trump100. Key finding: A majority of Americans (52%) believe Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American Democracy. Column has 6 other findings + 9 charts! www.whitetoolong.net/p/new-prri-p...

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

The NT does not identify & describe God as the one "who ultimately crucified Jesus," but rather as the God "who raised Jesus from the dead.” Acts 5:30; Rom 4:24; 6:4; 8:11; 10:9; 1 Cor 6:14; 15:15; 2 Cor 4:14; Gal 1:1; Eph 1:20; Col 2:12; 1 Thess 1:10; Heb 13:20; 1 Pet 1:21.🧵

Thanks to @gregsargent.bsky.social, we now know that the ONLY "evidence" that any law enforcement agency has EVER provided suggesting that Mr. Abrego-Garcia was part of a gang came from a detective indicted only a few weeks later for serious professional misconduct. bsky.app/profile/reic...

I'd love to see our professional associations move their yearly conferences to Canada and Europe. I think #AARSBL will be a ghost town this year.

Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

This is a threat, as well as a promise. The promise of MAGA this time around was clear: purge the US from „enemies within“. Sounds like the threat of deportation to a foreign gulag could soon come for American citizens soon. No one is safe.

Our conversation with @angeladenker.bsky.social, about her new book: Disciples of White Jesus. @coachjoemc.bsky.social and I invite you to check it out, and if you like it, pass it along to others. Peace to you this Holy Week. www.emmauscollective.com/podcasts/2-b...

Huge thanks to @dccramer.bsky.social for this excellent reporting from the conference on Christian nationalism that took place last month at Notre Dame.

“White Christian Nationalism in America is but our most recent chapter of an ancient story of what happens when Christianity is co-opted by empire.” - @angeladenker.bsky.social

1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

Per this, it appears at least 12 federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill fly an "Appeal to Heaven" flag outside their office, with Speaker Mike Johnson among them. baptistnews.com/article/a-vi...

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

"...one important constituency in American life continues to demonstrate moral clarity about the present danger, and it may surprise you: religious congregations, leaders and institutions," writes Rev. @raushenbush.bsky.social in @rns.org.

Hegseth is violating Naval Academy’s honor code: "Midshipmen are persons of integrity: They stand for that which is right. They tell the truth & ensure that the truth is known. They do not lie." #Bookbans are a systemic form of lying, both abt the past & present. www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-wh...

-Early estimates are ~30k in Chicago. Not bad. -Organizers didn't seem prepared for that many b/c they asked people to (checks notes) SIGN UP? -Protests in small towns in red states were most heartening. -Many black friends stayed home. I get why, but hope its not permanent. We need them. #handsoff

Banned books at the US Naval Academy www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-wh...

Just saw my book, “White Too Long” was purged from the US Naval Academy library. Listed along w/ 380 other books from @antheabutler.bsky.social , @michaelericdyson.bsky.social , @revjimwallis.bsky.social , Bryan Massingale, and others. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@rangemedia.co caught up with Bismark Avornu, who’s lived in the Spokane area for 15 years, where he met his wife and is raising two American children, about his 45 days in a Tacoma processing facility. @aaronhedge.bsky.social favs.news/spokane-migr... #spokane #ice #immigration

New piece from @tlecaque.bsky.social and I over @religiondispatches.org: Defense Secretary Hegseth’s New ‘Kafir’ Tattoo is the Perfect Encapsulation of Trumpish Foreign Policy: Just when you thought you’d talked enough about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s tattoos for one lifetime,..."

Indiana friends, I’ll be speaking at St. Mary’s College on Thursday evening, 7pm. Free and open to the public: www.saintmarys.edu/evening-kris...