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On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

…people are no strangers to exploitation. He told me that much of Northern Sudan was built by the Southern Sudanese. To illustrate the system of forced labor practiced in the North, William taught me an Arabic phrase, jowa kalbak yetbak, “if your dog is hungry, he will follow you.” He explained that Southern Sudanese laborers in the North were given just enough food to keep them working. The government even taxed the donkeys that transported their…

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Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

…m in the run-up to the July 9 date for the formal independence of southern Sudan. Like the residents of Kadugli, in the northern border state of South Kordofan, many Sudanese are finding themselves on the wrong side of disputed borders. There are, for example, many armed people aligned with the south’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) who live in and near Kadugli. This has allowed Khartoum to claim that they are fighting “rebels.” And while t…

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Amid Horrors, Muslim ‘John Hancocks’ Forge Secular Sudan

…y. He said that the document was the creation of scholars and activists in Sudan and the Sudanese diaspora. It was created largely over email, before being put into final form by a core group. The John Hancocks on the document are leaders of factions of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement, North (SPLM-N). Asked why more of the authors’ names aren’t on the Declaration, Ismail explained that the larger gr…

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The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

…The current violence began in the run up to the July 9 inauguration of the newly independent South Sudan. South Kordofan is a northern border province, and home to many supporters of the SPLM, the political movement aligned with the South, and the SPLA-North, one of its armed wings. History has left them behind, in the name of peace, to face the vengeance of a regime led by indicted war criminals. The ethnic Nuba, who are Black Africans, and predo…

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U.S. Envoy Minimizes Mounting Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan

…dding: In late June, a contractor working for the United Nations witnessed Sudanese Army soldiers filling a grave with bodies and covering it with a bulldozer. The Sudanese Army, paramilitary forces and government security forces have also attacked the United Nations force itself, the report said, including the summary execution of a Sudanese staff member. The report, which was requested by the Security Council, recommends an independent investiga…

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Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

…adugli have been getting out to church and human rights groups and Western news media since the Sudan Armed Forces initiated attacks in South Kordofan in early June. Since then, tens of thousands have fled. According to refugee accounts that surfaced in the international media, SAF helicopter gunships have hunted them in the mountains, and bombers have unleashed terror on towns. And although news media are barred from the area, and the UN has fled…

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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

…kowtow to the board and rewrite their social studies textbooks to meet the new standards, what kids could someday learn about health-care reform might sound like watching an hour of Fox News. Kids might be instructed to learn to compare and contrast the landmark legislation to the Black Plague, the 9/11 attacks, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bloody Sunday, or even the Jonestown massacre, as commentator Pat Caddell told Sean Hannity. (Real classy.) R…

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Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

…of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book.  Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited and started a Twitter beef, which I wrote about last week. Then he posted an article alleging that pacifist Christians made Jesus out to be a “pansy” and that s…

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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

…end time with our families.” Trump-as-the-chosen-hand-of-God is relatively new theology, to be sure, though no doubt the theology leading Trump to tout Lindell as a Senate candidate in Minnesota. (Lindell wouldn’t be the first Quistian candidate from the Land of 10,000 Lakes.) But Lindell’s remarks point to another extensive thread in American religious history: the belief, contrary to every bit of scriptural evidence, that the Christian God only…

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