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A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…ormalized their complaints by becoming the first plaintiffs in the current class action lawsuit, charging the ministry and its past and present clergy for complicity in the abuse. The original lawsuit listed SGM, Mahaney, Tomczak, and six other pastors from CLC and Sovereign Grace Church as defendants. The amended filing added five new plaintiffs and CLC, as well as CLC’s day school, the Fairfax church, and two more pastors as defendants. One new…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…hes. In the words of Langston Hughes, “We, too, sing America!” Intraracial class warfare, gender discrimination, ethnocentrism and xenophobia are all realities that retard African-American Protestant communities. Not to mention the lax restrictions and nonexistent ecclesial regulations of the evangelical tradition that continues to cultivate charismatic yet conniving religious leaders. Sure, for some, the black church represents freedom. But for o…

Pew: Atheists and Agnostics Best Informed on Religion

By Lauri Lebo

…respondents, asked whether public school teachers are permitted to lead a class in prayer, correctly answered no. But fewer than one of four knew that a public school teacher is permitted “to read from the Bible as an example of literature.” And only about one third knew that a public school teacher is permitted to offer a class comparing the world’s religions. The survey’s authors concluded that there was “widespread confusion” about “the line b…

Degrees of Separation

By Amina Wadud

…rohibiting eating and drinking in the prayer area, so we either sit in the classrooms or in the long and wide corridor that wraps around the prayer hall and between the classrooms. The long serving tables are in this corridor and so are the shelves for shoes. In addition, one of the classrooms is supposed to be the nursery during prayer. I remember one of those busy weekends, I could hear the sound of the children playing as I went into sajdah, or…

Did the “Real America” Elect Trump?

By Paul Harvey

…a culture, have to stop infantilizing and deifying rural and white working-class Americans. Their experience is not more of a real American experience than anyone else’s, but when we say that it is, we give people a pass from seeing and understanding more of their country. We must all understand that America is a melting pot and that none of us has a more authentic American experience. I’m all for soul-searching in the wake of the coalition of eva…

S.O.S.

By Amina Wadud

…rds”. Non-suhur people are NOT morning people. They may get up for work or class or an appointment but only for work or class or an appointment, and when these do not force them to get up, they sleep in. Even if they have one of those kind of five-days-a-week schedules that forces them up, it never becomes the norm; but is always an abnormal necessity. Therefore on the weekends, they stay in bed asleep for as long as they feel normal. Non-suhur pe…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…ife, global warming, and human cloning.” In addition to state-approved textbooks, teachers “may use supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner.” In his column, Chapman disingenuously writes: Tate’s fulminations are not characteristic of the educators and legislators who passed the new Louisiana law, but you can be sure that the Darwi…

Creationist Rumblings in Louisiana

By Lauri Lebo

…for LSEA. It is now embarking on a campaign to review all new science textbooks before their adoption. By the way, the Family Forum’s mission statement is to “persuasively present biblical principles in the centers of influence on issues affecting the family through research, communication and networking.” Forrest writes: The LSEA was only the beginning. The LFF’s attack on science textbooks is next. And now the Livingston Parish School Board has…

The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod

By Rosetta E. Ross

…e and not just “black” people. Sherrod told the story of helping a working class white farmer save his farm. Memories of her father’s still-unsolved racial murder and legacies of racial injustice against African Americans, she said, initially made her hesitant to put full efforts behind white farmers Roger and Eloise Spooner when they approached her for help. However, when the white attorney to whom Sherrod referred the Spooners failed to take the…

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…I taught was firebombed, presumably by government forces, and thousands of books, but no lives, were lost. There was no mention in those days of gay rights, and even women’s rights took a back seat to other rampant human rights violations. But even in the highly educated and cultured, if not very religious circles in Buenos Aires, everyone knew who the religious leaders were who could be counted on or not. The bishops, with few exceptions, were no…