The Public Eye Magazine

The Public Eye, Winter 2019

In “Losing their Religion,” PRA gathered four people from backgrounds spanning the Christian and evangelical spectrum for a roundtable discussion about leaving one’s faith community.

Although the Christian Right A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more may frequently seem to set the standard for regressive politics, it’s hardly alone. As Adam Lee writes in “What’s the Matter with Secularism?,” between the strident Islamophobia A form of religious bigotry, with strong racial components, that scapegoats & demonizes Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim. Learn more and pseudoscientific racism An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more of brand name atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, and the ambient misogyny An aggravated form of sexism that is a primary motivation for the Right, both as recruitment for and justification of its agenda. Learn more of the movement’s lesser YouTube stars, “New Atheism” has developed a troubling relationship with the Alt Right.

Since the 1990s, as Chrissy Stroop writes in “The Struggle for LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges and Universities,” LGBTQ students at the nation’s evangelical and fundamentalist institutions of higher education have fought for their right to exist on some of the most hostile ground imaginable.

In “Book Review: Pure,” Rev. Ashley Easter reviews Linda Kay Klein’s acclaimed new memoir about the evangelical purity movement that arose in the ’80s and ’90s.