Why do so many American evangelicals feel disdain toward Europe? And how is that impacting the current administration's foreign policy? @miguelpetrosky.bsky.social reflects on all of this in "European Antichrist."

It’s always interesting to see how the “Antichrist” discourse shifts—who’s the proposed Antichrist, and the ones making the claim www.vox.com/politics/489...

I once wrote a book review in which an economist argued that liberal churches were more political than conservative ones based on analyzing church social media accounts. I responded that he needed to look more at sermons. I’m glad someone did. economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

Well done @miguelpetrosky.bsky.social So much of the US narrative is shaped by an evangelical gaze that sees what it wants to see. Thanks for this the reminders here of its projections.

“The Nicolae Carpathia character is really helpful because that character is a proxy for a certain evangelical critique of cosmopolitan European culture“ - I enjoyed speaking w/ @miguelpetrosky.bsky.social for his @therevealer.bsky.social piece on the Euro Antichrist therevealer.org/european-ant...

The first thing the editor in chief of the Roosevelt school newspaper did when she got home was hug her father. Then she opened her computer and started to type. Her article went viral. Lila Dominguez said running the newspaper during the ICE surge showed her “the power of truth.”

Our May issue is here! Articles on James Dobson in the Epstein Files, vaccine hesitancy, evangelical disdain of Europe, movies on the Catholic Church, Palestinians on screen, & British Muslims from @nberlat.bsky.social, @mwatsonfore.bsky.social, @miguelpetrosky.bsky.social, & more! therevealer.org

I wrote for @therevealer.bsky.social about right-wing evangelical Christian disdain for Western Europe, as portrayed by the various Antichrists in Christian end-times films I grew up watching. Many thanks to @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social for his edits/feedback. therevealer.org/european-ant...

A new study by Gallup (along with reporting by NYT and Wash Post) further reveals what I dug into last September: Gen Z men are becoming more religious, and Gen Z women less so. Here's what I uncovered about the trend. therevealer.org/tiktok-mascu...

This is quite the statement from Vance, but my neuroses do compel me to say that this isn’t really how either excommunication or papal infallibility work.

Look, you are allowed to be a Catholic and say the pope got something wrong. But if you make a public statement like "Looks like the pope forgot a little thing called 'Just War Tradition' that says sometimes God *loves* war," then you are plainly too stupid to be in charge of wars, or anything else.

New from me: across federal agencies, workers say religion—specifically Christianity—is showing up their workplace. “The vibes are bad and people don’t like it.” @wired.com www.wired.com/story/govern...

Wait, are hipsters back? Because it sounds like hipsters are back. Do any of the youths need to borrow my ukulele?

This is sort of an overview of reporting done on church-state separation erosion over the past year, but nevertheless still an important piece.

So I get that a sitting president verbally attacking a pope is wild, but this isn’t dissimilar from when then candidate-Trump referred to Pope Francis as “disgraceful” back in 2016

Orban's loss has financial and organizational consequences for the far right worldwide.

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

While Viktor Orbán’s defeat was already in the works, the resounding election results also point to how the Trump/MAGA brand is an anathema to most of Europe—especially the far right.

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

Keeping Hungary in my thoughts today. Hoping for a resounding bellwether referendum on authoritarian populism.

Full story, UPDATED with confirmations that the meeting occurred from the Department of Defense and the nuncio's office. religionnews.com/2026/04/08/p...

i hate when people shame others for mispronouncing a word they’ve only ever read. correct them, fine, but like let’s give grace to readers to talk about what they read.

MAGA has a strong isolationist wing that Carlson, MTG, etc, represent. This wing will be harder to maintain in the MAGA coalition. And Vance is too connected right now with the actions of Trump to win them over. All of which makes me think that Carlson is gonna make a run for the presidency.

Nobody can take away this man's phone?

The president of the United States, 8:06 am ET, threatens Iran: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.“

As MAGA religious groups become more radicalized, it’ll likely be a lot of infighting between the Catholic Integralists, far-right Reformed and evangelical/charismatic Dominionists. Their coalition is actually a lot weaker since each branch feels theologically superior to the other.

Just FYI: Seeing a few protest crowd photos shared on here that appear to be AI-generated. But there’s lots of reporters out there today taking photos and video (especially, it seems, @statesnewsroom.com), so you may wanna keep an eye on what journalists post.

My hometown in SW Virginia (with a roughly 5,000 pop.) had a No Kings protest. It was a small group, but boy did the local paper’s FB post strike up the comment section.

This represents an instance in which certain reports in the media misrepresent the meaning of evangelical Christianeze language. The “die in Christ” language is an overly dramatic call to repentance. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pete-h...

3. An odd theological aside: the profound religious chasm between Talarico and these guys notwithstanding, *both* of their faith traditions (PCUSA and CREC, respectively) are Calvinist. Calvinism has a much, much broader spectrum of interpretations — especially politically — than many people think.

My observation is confirmed. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

look say whatever you want about Chuck Norris but Walker, Texas Ranger was among the most unhinged, feel good gifts of the 1990s

Reposting on Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Birthday: Ladies don't just sing the blues. They play them, too www.dailykos.com/stories/2021...

I suspect he’s angling for the presidency tbh

Always wild to see how the Fundamentalist-Modernist split just, like, never ended.

A Methodist pastor from my town was previously Epstein’s administrative assistant and property manager during the last year of his life. fox4kc.com/news/former-...

This hits me a little personally because I lived and volunteered In Lusaka for a year back in the pre-pandemic days. I have no words other than this is just wrong.

Jürgen Habermas was surely one of the only great twentieth century intellectuals to tweet actively at the end of his life. And he had some truly iconic ones.

Honestly so happy to hear Sinners won so many awards - easily one of my favorite movies I’ve seen in the past decade.

Michael B. Jordan really took his craft to a different level with his acting in Sinners. Well deserved.

NATO is a defensive alliance whose main goal is deterrence, not a mercenary force

I actually don’t remember much of the “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” plot, but the soundtrack? Still slaps.

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

Heath Carter's new article discussing Matthew Sutton's new book, Chosen Land, is an excellent and provocative piece pointing out something that I argue in my last book: the mainline liberal Protestants of today were the "Christian nationalists" of yesterday. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Even though I’ve used the term in the past, I’ve slowly come to believe that “Christian nationalism” isn’t really a helpful concept. I’m glad to see others recognize it too. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is 56, which means he was 10 in the 1979 revolution. That makes him the first leader of Iran without memories of life under the Shah or the revolution itself (beyond kid recollection, at least). Like John Quincy Adams, the first post-revolutionary leader.

writing long pieces that require readers to go under for a long time before coming up for air is an act of defiance against the efficiency economy and grindset maxxing. it’s a fuck you to AI summaries and headline reactions. it’s rebellion. we are fighting for a world where long reads are the norm.

Given that this conflict's cons far outweigh any alleged pros, it falls in either of two camps of Trump's incentives: a) greed, and b) personal grievance. I suspect it falls under the latter. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/06/i...

Paternal grandfather was a truck driver, and maternal grandfather was a car salesman and a WVA coal miner towards the end of his life.