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The New Religious Left: A Marketing Dream or Political Reality?

By Daniel Schultz

…Moral Mondays movement helped oust Pat McCrory over his support for North Carolina’s noxious “bathroom bill.” But you’ll notice that bill has only been partially repealed, and in the meantime, GOP legislatures across the US continue to chip away at women’s right to control their own bodies. Despite Dr. Barber’s willingness to embrace LGBT rights, there doesn’t seem to be a holistic understanding in the religious left movement overall that women’s…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…lle, Virginia; mass shootings at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, at three different spas in the Atlanta-area in 2021, and at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in 2022; as well as dozens of other instances of vigilante violence against religious minorities. And, of course, it was on full display during the 2021 Capitol insurrection two years ago. Given the dynamics present in the…

Can Art Save Us From Fundamentalism?

By Philip S. Francis

…at the self-described “fundamentalist” Christian university in Greenville, South Carolina. It has the largest faculty of any of the university’s schools, and it is famed for its world-class Shakespeare productions, operas, museums and galleries. For many Bob Jones students and alumni, the arts go hand in hand with their faith, even if certain aesthetic experiences challenge them to revise aspects of their religious heritage. As one devout alumnus…

In its Battle for ‘Life’ the Antiabortion Movement is Willing to Expose its Enemies to Death — And There’s an Old Christian Theology that Supports Them

By Beatrice Marovich

…hat their commitment to life is, at best, inconsistent. A proposed bill in South Carolina highlights just how disposable the lives of people who have abortions are to antiabortion activists. The bill, HB 3549, seeks to amend the state’s law code so that an abortion would be treated as a homicide by the state’s judicial system, which could make the death penalty a potential consequence. It would be difficult to interpret this as anything other than…

Rev. William Barber: Jazzman for Justice

By Peter Heltzel

…stood together against the tyranny of white-supremacist Democrats in North Carolina. It happens that fusion also characterized the emergent jazz music of the late 19th century. Jazz arose from a fusion of different musical forms, including slave songs, spirituals, blues, ragtime, European folk music and opera. This new creative concoction originated in Louisiana where Creole culture was prominent. There French colonizers had intermarried with Nati…

Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”

By The Editors

…llary Clinton’s ability to harness the power of black voters especially in southern states is a phenomenon suggesting the power of American Christianity to shape American electoral patterns. Black religious lives matter when the votes are tallied. ______________________________ Who is the “We”? Yolanda Pierce Professor of African American literature and religion at Princeton Theological Seminary and author of Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christian…

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ith Cubit co-editor Andrew Aghapour at a coffee shop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to explore how religion applies to elephants, dogs, chimpanzees, and factory farming. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. As a scholar of religion, why do you think it’s wrong see religion as exclusive to humans? I think most of us have the sense that whatever religion means, it’s not obvious. It’s complicated, perhaps beyond words—similar to a c…

How a Pioneer of Branding Invented Christian Fundamentalism

By Daniel Silliman

…and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism Timothy Gloege University of North Carolina, April 27, 2015 In his fascinating narrative of the origins of modern evangelicalism, Gloege traces its close relationship to modern marketing back to the founder of Quaker Oats, Henry Parsons Crowell. If you asked people for a short list of the most important religious figures in the early 20th century, Henry Parsons Crowell probably wouldn’t be on it. Who was Cro…

TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition

By Michael Schulson

…opular could hit upwards of 30 million. These aren’t exactly Justin Bieber numbers, but for 18 minute-long lectures about science, management, creativity, design, and technology, they’re extraordinary. The TED brand has become synonymous with a certain kind of hip, Silicon Valley-style wonkishness. A viral talk, like Cuddy’s, can launch public careers and drive books onto the bestseller list. Newness is part of TED’s vibe, but the genre it represe…

Why “Family Values” Defined Conservative Christianity (and Why “Religious Liberty” Has Replaced it)

By Eric C. Miller

…in Republican politics. We’ll see that again in the Iowa caucuses and the South Carolina primary. There are still many Republican politicians and evangelical ministers who will get plenty of mileage sounding the alarm that they have been ringing for decades: America is going to hell in a handbasket, and only a return to God will save us. But will enough people heed the warning? I’m not sure religious freedom as a rallying cry will have much stayi…