News Weekly Round-Up, August 26th – August 30th
News Weekly Round-Up, August 26th – August 30th, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
Picking up from last week, the Meanings’ team followed stories on Christian resistance against Christian Nationalism and more. Here’s the latest on Christian Nationalism!
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- Sojourners: How Christians Can Counter Christian Nationalism
- KUOW: Pride and Christian Nationalism in Yakima City
- WORT-FM 89.9: Christian resistance against Christian Nationalism
- The Oklahoman: Separation of church and state benefits both
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News Weekly Round-Up, August 19th – August 23rd
News Weekly Round-Up, August 19th – August 23rd, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
This week, the Meanings’ team followed stories on Christian resistance against Christian Nationalism and more. Here’s the latest on Christian Nationalism!
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- The Presbyterian Outlook: Amy Pagliarella reviews Jim Wallis’ The False White Gospel:
- Boise State Public Radio: Christian resistance against Christian Nationalism
- PR Newswire: Pacific School of Religion on AI and Christian Nationalism
- CBS News: Donald Trump’s connections to Project 2025
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News Weekly Round-Up, August 12th – August 16th
News Weekly Round-Up, August 12th – August 16th, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
This week, the Meanings’ team followed stories on leaked Project 2025 videos and training tapes and more. Here’s the latest on Christian Nationalism!
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- Faith and Leadership: Interview with our Ruth Braunstein
- ProPublica: Leaked Project 2025 training videos
- The Presbyterian Outlook: Rev. Haley Ballast explores three churches in the Seattle-area grappling with Christian nationalism
- Rollingstone: Project 2025 Co-Author says it’s time to ”Rehabilitate” Christian Nationalism
- The New Republic: Project 2025 author talks Christian Nationalism, Trump in leaked video
- The 74: Texas state education officials won’t say who wrote curriculum with Bible lessons
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Interview with Faith and Leadership
Director Ruth Braunstein was interviewed by Faith and Leadership on the Meanings of Democracy Lab’s Pluralist Resistance to Christian Nationalism project and Christian nationalism and resistance to it over the last decade. Thanks to a new $300,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Braunstein will scale up this work through a podcast and interactive web platform where users can explore various resistance efforts.
Where did our work begin? While writing her first book, Braunstein studied two competing views of American democracy—the tea party and a progressive faith-based community organizing coalition:
“In the tea party, we saw early rumblings of what we are now calling Christian nationalism, or what I sometimes call a more colorblind Judeo-Christian nationalism. When I was spending time with the faith-based community organizing group, I saw that they were providing a direct rebuttal to that vision of American democracy, which they envisioned as a multiracial pluralistic democracy.”
The rebuttal receives comparatively little attention, which legitimizes Christian Nationalism and makes diverse, interfaith, and pluralist Christian communities that present an alternative view difficult to locate.
Braunstein asserts that this research needs to be better investigated, communicated, and visualized. There is significant and growing organizing for resistance, however, these efforts are consistently overshadowed for many reasons:
“Many of the efforts are local, many of the efforts are not public-facing, many of the efforts are not explicitly using the term “Christian nationalism,” and they’re quite diffuse across different kinds of networks and sectors that make it difficult to point your finger at one thing and say, ‘Oh, this is a resistance to Christian nationalism.’ Part of the project that my lab is doing, with support from the Luce Foundation, is trying to map that field of resistance as broadly as we can.”
Follow us online and @USDemocracyLab for the latest updates on the project.
Grant funding for this project comes from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Religion and Theology Program, through an initiative seeking to “Advance Public Knowledge on Democracy, Race and Religion in America.”
The Henry Luce Foundation seeks to deepen knowledge and understanding in pursuit of a more democratic and just world. Established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time, Inc., the Luce Foundation advances its mission by nurturing knowledge communities and institutions, fostering
News Weekly Round-Up, August 5th – August 10th
News Weekly Round-Up, August 5th – August 10th, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- UnHerd: Why are churches arming themselves?
- Media Matters for America: Project 2025 partner attacks surrogacy and IVF
- The Christian Chronicle: Who is Ryan Walters?
- The Guardian: Oklahoma schools and educators oppose putting the Bible in lesson plans
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News Weekly Round-Up, July 22nd – 27th
News Weekly Round-Up, July 22nd – 27th, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- The Guardian: Trump tells Christian supporters to vote “just this time… you won’t have to do it anymore”
- The Guardian: Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts ties to Opus Dei
- Religion News Service: The rise of Catholic Christian Nationalism
- Americans United: A coalition of civil rights organizations including Americans United are requesting records for Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters’ mandate for bibles in public schools.
- NPR: Christian Nationalism, Christ Church, and abuse
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News Weekly Round-Up, July 15th – 19th
News Weekly Round-Up, July 15th – 19th, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- Kansas Reflector: Kansas, Missouri clergy on the threat White Christian Nationalism poses to democracy
- USAToday: Religion and the Republican National Convention
- The Guardian: Harmeet Dhillon was the target of online hate after giving a Sikh prayer at the Republican National Convention
- NPR: The troubling conflation of religion and politics after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump
- Rollingstone: Prominent Republicans and conservative thought-leaders proclaim “divine intervention” after Donald Trump survives assassination attempt
- Wisconsin Examiner: Interfaith leaders rally in Milwaukee to warn against white Christian nationalism as the Republican National Convention begins
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News Weekly Round-Up, July 1st – 5th, 2024
News Weekly Round-Up, July 1st – 5th, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- Media Matters for America: Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, declared “We are in the process of the second American Revolution” after the Supreme Court immunity decision
- The New Republic: Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, exclaimed “Some folks need killing!” in a speech at a small-town church
- The New York Times: The blurring of lines between church and state and how faith is used as a tool and weapon in politics
- Truthout: Christian Nationalism poses a threat to public education
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News Weekly Round-Up, June 24th – 28th
News Weekly Round-Up, June 24th – 28th, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- Northeastern Global News: Jeremy Paul, a professor of law at Northeastern, deemed Louisiana’s Ten Commandments ‘intimidating and coercive’
- The Fayetteville Observer: Black, gay Fayetteville minister Mark Robinson details Christian Nationalism in North Carolina towards the LGBTQ+ community
- Axios: Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school unconstitutional
- PBS: After the Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked public funding for a Catholic charter school, State Superintendent Ryan Walters mandates Bibles in every public school classroom
- Rollingstone.com: RFK Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, warns of ‘demonic’ influence in the government
- U.S. Catholic: Reverend Jim Wallis, author of The False White Gospel, spoke on white Christian Nationalism on the Just Politics podcast (transcript included)
- The Hill: The implications of Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law
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News Weekly Round-Up, June 17th – 21st
News Weekly Round-Up, June 17th – 21st, 2024.
The Weekly Roundup is a student-led initiative of the Meanings of Democracy Lab highlighting the latest news about Christian Nationalism and resistance to it.
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN THE NEWS
- CNN: A voucher program is sending taxpayer money to private religious schools
- Louisville Public Radio: Women leaders and members oppose the Southern Baptist Convention’s priorities
- The Hill: The ACLU, ACLU of Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit against a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments in classrooms
- VPM: The Extremely American podcast returns with a focus on the rise of Christian Nationalism in the college town of Moscow, Idaho
- Politico: Michael Flynn, former Trump insider, is using harmful Christian Nationalist rhetoric to describe American politics
- Axios: Louisiana becomes the first state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in all public schools
- Newsweek: The Southern Baptist Convention voted to oppose in vitro fertilization (IVF)
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