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Nancy Hardesty, Founding Mother of Biblical Feminist Movement (1941-2011)

…a small stack of books (now a book-case full) that argued for alternative readings of the “difficult passages” in the Bible that had been used to subjugate women in Christianity. And they did so in a style of reading the Bible that was intended to connect with conservative Christians. One of the earliest of those books was All We’re Meant to Be by Letha Dawson Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty. Letha has on posted a tribute to Nancy on her blog: the sto…

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Mass Conversion: Changing Churches to Stop the Church From Changing

…and, well, Catholics. Quick! When was the last time an American president headlined the General Convention of the Episcopal Church? Look it up: 1928, Calvin Coolidge, Washington National Cathedral. Could it be that the congregational conversion of St. Luke’s and perhaps a handful of other Episcopal churches functions less to “bridge and heal a wound that has existed between Rome and Anglicanism for nearly five hundred years” than as a salve for th…

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May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

…released, tailed, and finally ambushed and murdered by klansmen. You can read the whole terrible history here. In 1988, Molpus was approached about speaking at an event at the now-rebuilt church, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the murders of the three civil rights workers. According to this account, Molpus was advised not to go. It would be politically unwise and personally risky—and besides, he was a young and popular politician with a pr…

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Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP

…idering Reagan: Racism, Republicans and the Road to Trump Daniel S. Lucks Beacon Press August 4, 2020 Scholars have long pointed to Ronald Reagan’s 1980 appearance at the Neshoba County Fair, an annual event where Mississippi politicians regularly gathered to spout off racist diatribes that took place in Philadelphia, the town where Klansmen had murdered three civil rights workers in the bloody summer of 1964, as evidence of the racist undertones…

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#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches: Is It Freedom Summer Again?

…lives are also under attack. clergy and their church communities are spearheading much of this work. The practicalities of protecting black houses of worship, however, are very much of this world. Many may not remember that during the years of 1995-1998, 670 churches burned, according to the Community Relations Service, and in 1996, the Church Arson Prevention Act was signed by then-President Clinton. In light of the shooting at Emanuel AME and th…

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Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

…ized” response that looking at death is simply voyeuristic and morbid. Instead, there is something crucial to our lives that necessitates reflections on death, and sometimes this means looking—slowly, carefully, deliberately, even contemplatively—at what we are most afraid of.  Before 9/11: Remembering our Visual Cultures of Death  Barbie Zelizer has investigated issues surrounding journalistic images of death better than anyone in recent years. F…

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The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe

…I am attending Beverly Hills High School with more than 1,000 students in each grade. The social landscape at Beverly Hills High School in the 1990s was insular and segregated. People from the same ethnic background tended to be friends only with each other and there was very little mixing between social groups. Most high school friendships had developed years earlier in elementary school, so the cliques were already established, and I was an out…

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The Redemptive Power of Jewish Self-Hatred

…riarch, Herr Aarenhold, who collects expensive old books that he does not read; for his wife, an “ugly” woman with an ostentatious necklace “upon her shrunken breast.” The Aarenhold’s four grown children are charmless and hypercritical; Mann makes much of their “sallow” skin and “hooked” noses; as he puts it, the “facial characteristics” of their “race.” But what’s significant about the story, aside from how much the author hates these characters,…

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#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

…they have anything to say about these killings? I wondered what they are preaching and teaching in their churches. I mean, what would it look like for a group of white clergy to come to a bank of microphones and declare that black lives matter—or for those same clergy to request a meeting with the police director and the DA? My thinking about this is influenced by a book I’ve recently read: Joseph Reiff’s, Born of Conviction: White Methodists and…

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Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

…For many Americans the mention of Marley conjures the image of flashing dreadlocks, ganja smoke, and reggae’s hypnotic beat—all of which are pleasant enough. And yet, the politics of consumer capitalism and muckraking media have tainted the remembrance of a potent religious and social activist (as it has also threatened, albeit to a far lesser degree, the memory of MLK). Black Americans of Caribbean lineage, however, recognize this other Bob Marl…

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