The Christian Century tackles a Texas bill that forbids the teaching of critical race theory and the 1619 Project. Here is a taste of its editorial: How should the story of our country be told? It says that schools should...
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Evangelical roundup: Texas Heartbeat Act edition
What are evangelical Christians saying about the Texas Heartbeat Act? Here’s a bonus addition of the roundup. And it’s not behind the Current paywall! 🙂 James Dobson on Facebook: Just before midnight last night, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a...
Making sense of the Texas Heartbeat Act
Read Texas Senate Bill 8 here. Some highlights: The bill says that Texas “never repealed, either expressly or by implication, the state statues enacted before the ruling in Rove v. Wade…that prohibit and criminalize abortion unless the mother’s life is...
Texas effectively bans abortion
Here is Adam Liptak at The New York Times: The Supreme Court did not take action early Wednesday on a request to block a Texas law prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, allowing the most restrictive abortion...
Election fraud “expert” testifies at Texas State Senate hearing. Quotes 2 Peter 1:10 on “election.”
Watch: The woman speaking in this video is Dr. Laura Pressley. She is testifying on election fraud before the Texas State Senate Committee on State Affairs. You can watch her entire testimony at the 12:28:20 mark of this video. What...
A new Battle of the Alamo?
Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford recently published Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. It has a provocative title and an even more provocative argument: Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas...
Supreme Court upholds Obamacare (7-2) and religious liberty (9-0)
Here is Politico on the Texas challenge to the Affordable Care Act: The Supreme Court on Thursdaythrew out a lawsuit threatening the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, finding that Republican-led states behind the case did not have legal ground...
Texas is trying to whitewash its history
One of these days I will try to put together a list of state education boards trying to change their history curriculums so that students do not come face to face with the many sins of America’s past. Texas will...
Will Hurd has his work cut out for him
Former Texas representative Will Hurd wants to make the GOP more moderate. Good luck. Here is a taste of his interview with Emma Green at The Atlantic: Green: Are you frustrated that the oxygen gets sucked up by people like Lauren...
A Texas state representative defends the phrase “purity of the ballot box.” It does not go well.
Watch: The Washington Post has it covered: Early on in a contentious night of debate over a bill that would create newvoting restrictions in Texas, state Rep. Rafael AnchĂa (D) zeroed in on what he called a “peculiar term.” The bill said...
The Author’s Corner with Allison Schottenstein
Allison Schottenstein is Annual Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati’s Blue Ash College. This interview is based on her new book, Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston during the Civil Rights Era (University of North Texas Press,...
*The New York Times* in Texas
Religion reporter Ruth Graham is part of the new Times team covering Texas. Here is a taste of the announcement: We are thrilled to share National’s plans for expanding our presence in Texas, a state that lies at the heart...
Dinesh D’Souza is defending Ted Cruz’s trip to Cancun
While Texans were freezing in their homes, their senator was in Cancun. Now conservative pundit and convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza is defending Cruz’s decision: I’ll let Twitter respond to D’Souza’s tweet: D’Souza always talks about Christianity less as a faith...
Texas exceptionalism?
As a north Jersey guy who now lives in Pennsylvania, I have never embraced or understood the “Texas exceptionalism myth.” (At no point in my life have I ever rooted for the Dallas Cowboys in a National Football League game)....
As Texans freeze, senator Ted Cruz hops a plane to Cancun
Here is Fox News: Sen. Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, with his family this week as Texas dealt with a winter storm that left millions without power, Fox News has confirmed. Photographs of Cruz, R-Texas, at an airport began circulating on social media late Wednesday, with...