Intercessors for America’s “Propaganda Special Report” repackages media literacy as a weapon of spiritual warfare and political distrust.

Examining the ideas, leaders, and cultural forces shaping Christian nationalism, and creating space for open, research-driven articles. Click to read Every Knee Shall Bend, a Substack publication.

Trump’s Quantico spectacle contrasts with a People’s Mass in Chicago and Cardinal McElroy’s call for neighbor-love. Fear isolates. Hope gathers.

How Christian nationalist rhetoric recasts facts as faith claims, why empathy is under attack, and why servant leadership and friendship offer a democratic alternative.

If Kirk was a champion of free speech, than it seems the worst way to honor his legacy is to silence anyone for what they said about him, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Sanctifying violence in the name of faith and nation

The Department of War has begun posting Bible verses alongside military drills.

Robert Barron’s rhetoric on martyrdom, free speech, and Catholic witness

On the convergence of media, money, and politics in constructing a particular Catholicism.