Pastors and Pews

Right-wing author and pundit Eric Metaxas, interviewed at an American Renewal Project conference in Missouri last week, “reflected on the failures of the German church to react and preserve freedom from a tyrannical dictator leading to World War 2,” according to a local Baptist publication, The Path

The Values Voter Summit is thick with Republican presidential wannabes and members of Congress — a potent counter to recurring claims that the Religious Right is dead or dying as a political force.

In July, we reported on Christian-nation extremist David Lane’s closed-door pastors briefing in Iowa, and the presidential hopefuls and other politicians who have flocked to Lane’s gatherings over the years. This week the Des Moines Register’s Jennifer Jacobs reported that Lane’s American Renewal Pr

Senators and presidential hopefuls Rand Paul and Ted Cruz will head to Iowa this week as featured speakers at a closed-door event for conservative pastors that has been organized by David Lane, an anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-Mormon, Christian-nation absolutist who has declared war, not only on secul