The Methodists Are Thinking About Ejecting Jeff Sessions Over Family Separations
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on immigration and law enforcement actions to cadets from Lackwanna College Police Academy. Michael Candelori/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Methodists, who are known for being fairly chill in the grand scheme of organized religion, are apparently considering kicking Attorney General Jeff Sessions…
The New Southern Baptist President Wants to End Abuse in the Church While Sticking to Tradition
Mother Jones illustration; dwleindecker/Getty Images; Sean_Warren/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Southern Baptist Convention elected a new leader Tuesday in Dallas amid an unprecedented conversation about gender. J.D. Greear, the pastor at The Summit, a North Carolina-based Baptist megachurch, won 69 percent of the vote at the Baptists’ annual conference.…
School Officials Tried to Stop Her From Talking About Sexual Assault. She Wouldn’t be Silenced.
Lulabel Seitz after her microphone was shut off.Erik Castro/The Press Democrat/AP No, Lulabel Seitz would not shut up. The first in her family to graduate high school, the Petaluma, Calif., senior wouldn’t let school administrators stop her from publicly talking about sexual assault at school. “Let her speak!” her classmates shouted when her mic was cut,…
These Evangelicals Are Turning AR-15s Into Garden Hoes
Mother Jones/Nathalie Baptiste Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In America, God and guns have gone hand in hand. Prominent white evangelicals like Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of the Liberty University, the largest evangelical university in the country, has bragged about carrying a gun in his back pocket. Robert Jeffress, the pastor of…
Ireland Just Voted to Legalize Abortion
Niall Carson/PA Wire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Ireland made history when the country voted to repeal its constitution’s Eighth Amendment, one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. The referendum’s passage is a huge win for reproductive-rights advocates in a Catholic country that for decades pledged to…
As a Teen, Emily Joy Was Abused by a Church Youth Leader. Now She’s Leading a Movement to Change Evangelical America.
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The #MeToo stories that were flooding Emily Joy’s social feeds for weeks had been nagging at her. Last November, as her own story played on a loop in her mind, she finally texted a group of close friends: “Do I out my high school abuser? Probably, huh?” Joy’s story is familiar…