Archive - Every Knee Shall Bend

Faith, Fear, and the Free Gift of Propaganda

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

Oct 8, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

September 2025

The Politics of Fear and the Liturgy of Hope

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

Sep 30, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

Picking Up Serpents

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

Sep 26, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

When Christian Nationalism Makes Violence Holy

Sanctifying violence in the name of faith and nation

Sep 23, 2025 • Tess Starman and Ronald E Hopson

The Pentagon is Preaching

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

Sep 19, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

The Sacralization of Free Speech

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

Sep 17, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

What Dutch Sheets Won’t Admit About Identity Politics

Dutch Sheets condemns identity politics—but his movement depends on it.

Sep 12, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

The Money Magisterium: Wealth, Media, and the Narrowing of the Catholic Church

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

Sep 9, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

When Worship Becomes Weaponized

Sean Feucht and the politics of persecution shaping Christian nationalism.

Sep 5, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

Gun Violence is a Pastoral Issue

Abortion gets action, gun violence gets thoughts and prayers

Sep 2, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

August 2025

Back to School with Christian Nationalism

Why the classroom is becoming the front line in the push to merge faith and politics.

Aug 29, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

"Maybe We Like a Dictator"

Why Christian nationalism’s "Gospel of the Strong Man" puts American democracy at risk.

Aug 26, 2025 • Andrew Ambrose Mackey

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