Broadcasts from the James Dobson Family Institute, the ministry Dobson founded after leaving Focus on the Family in 2010, offer listeners doom and gloom.

Pentecostal pastors laying hands on the president in the Oval Office. Prayers to open cabinet meetings. Hymn sings in the Roosevelt Room. Cross necklaces as faith-forward fashion statements. A prayer meeting at the Pentagon.

“I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America,” President Donald Trump told Congress in March. “It’s back.”

Christian and conservative groups that fight abortion and gay rights in the U.S. and Europe are intensifying their work across Africa through conferences, activism and promotion of a “Declaration on Family Values” that express grave concern about sex education, birth control, the “normalization of abortion as a right” and “advocacy of gender identity ideologies.”

The second time around, President Donald Trump is upending established news media conventions. Representatives of right-wing outlets are called on to ask questions at White House briefings while mainstream reporters Trump has called the “enemy of the American people” are ignored.

The trial is the latest chapter in the long-running saga of dozens of slow-moving defamation cases filed against conservative outlets and Christian influencers who embraced Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election and falsely blamed voting technology companies for effecting the steal.

Evangelicals largely supported “environmental stewardship” of God’s creation during the 1970s and 1980s. But as the Christian right grew closer to the GOP, it embraced the party’s pro-energy policies and turned its back on environmental stewardship.