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      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
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      Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I
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      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
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      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
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    • Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
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      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
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      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
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      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
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Pamela R. Lightsey

Dr. Pamela R. Lightsey is the Associate Dean for Community Life and Lifelong Learning and Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology and Practice at Boston University's School of Theology. She is co-chair of AAR's Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group. Her publications include, “Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology” (Wipf and Stock Publishers), “Reconciliation,” in Radical Evangelical (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company) and “If There Should Come a Word” in Black United Methodists Preach! (Abingdon Press).

Archive, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/JusticeJune 19, 2020

Methodist Church’s ‘Dismantling Racism Initiative’ Excludes Some Black Lives

By Pamela R. Lightsey

On one of the most sacred days of observance in African American history, Juneteenth, the…

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(A)theologies, Activism and the Academy, ArchiveJune 5, 2020

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

On Monday, I and a group of womanist Presidents and Deans, decided that we would…

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Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesMay 11, 2016

The United Methodist Church to LGBTQ: You’re “Sacred,” But Not Welcome

By Pamela R. Lightsey

The month of May has marked a decided shift in the strategy for full inclusion…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderMarch 4, 2016

With New York Joining DC in Defiance Methodist Church Faces Showdown on LGBT Ordination

By Pamela R. Lightsey

As the United Methodist Church approaches it next quadrennial General Conference this May, its members…

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Guest Bloggers, Politics/LawJune 27, 2013

From Voting Rights Act to Today’s DOMA Repeal—LGBT Orgs Are Missing the Rainbow

By Pamela R. Lightsey

Why the frail response by LGBT organizations to the Voting Rights Act repeal this week?

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Guest Bloggers, Sexuality/GenderJune 11, 2011

Methodist Clergy Pledge to Defy Church in Blessing LGBT Unions

By Pamela R. Lightsey

Public policy is far more prophetic and just than our current church polity…

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Guest BloggersMay 2, 2011

Bin Laden’s Death: Redress of a Wrong Suffered

By Pamela R. Lightsey

Or is it just war as usual…?

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Sexuality/GenderOctober 5, 2010

The Eddie Long Scandal: It is About Anti-Homosexuality

By Pamela R. Lightsey

Could it be that the African American community finally wants to talk?

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