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5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…a woman named Beverly Russell Bell, who praised God for sparing her sister-in-law’s Bible when the sister-in-law herself died in a fire, went viral in 2016. When the “Beverly meme” appeared in the Exvangelical Facebook group, a support group and intersectional safe space that now has nearly 4,000 members, then-member and now moderator Anne Weaver suggested we refer to tone-deaf evangelicals as “Beverlies.” As of late 2018, Urban Dictionary has ad…

Even Amid Controversy, ‘My Soul Still Sings,’ Says UMC’s First Lesbian Bishop

By Sunnivie Brydum

…gh, and yet we don’t value the families of LGBTQ people. So it is this push-and-pull tension, that I think does create a muddling—a theological mess.” Despite that mess, though, the bishop insists that there is no other church that she could go to. She hopes the countless LGBTQ people who write to her each month feel the same way. She points to the church’s Wesleyan spirituality and the particular way United Methodists “do theology” as among the k…

Neil Gorsuch Shows How Donald Trump Loses (Some) White Evangelical Christians

By John Stoehr

…leaders are willing to let on. You have to understand something about ultra-orthodox, twice-born Christianity when its comes to sex and gender in public and private life. You’re either a man or you’re a woman; male or female; masculine or feminine. Men marry women. Women marry men. There is no in-between. There is no gray area. There is no plus/and. You are not born LGBTQ, because birth is the most natural thing of all. Being LGBTQ, however, is un…

The Truth in Transgender: Will the Episcopal Church Amend Its Rules?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…try to increase awareness and understanding.” However, he also sees the day-to-day reality of transgender experience as making an additional practical call on Christians. “It’s my personal understanding of biblical ethics that Christ calls us to reach out to others who don’t fit in,” he explains, “those who are poorly understood, who are subject to violence and domination within our culture.” He continues: “One thing we know about transgender peop…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…ugee resettlement program, or praising Japanese internment camps, his behavior recalls ugly periods in our own history. Again, this is a look-in-the-mirror moment, not one for Holocaust analogies….

A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…anti-slavery man—from being stabbed to death by an enraged racist mob. Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah: Tales of White Superiority Joel Chandler Harris staged no spectacular celebrations of whiteness: he didn’t need to. His Uncle Remus tales, published in book form between 1880 and 1905, were hugely successful in explaining to white people, both in the North and South, why the Civil War and Abolition had been a big mistake. Born poor and illegitimate and affli…

The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…public buildings (and schools) statewide, was received by the House in mid-March, and its fate remains unclear. Meanwhile the House companion bill, HB 2899, is still pending in the State Affairs committee. SB 242 would require school officials, teachers, and counselors to violate student-teacher confidentiality at the request of a young person’s parents, forcing the educators to “disclose any personal, direct, or incidental knowledge regarding a…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…ed to women when she was younger but that she was healed. She tells pastors-in-training that people have a choice to resist the desires of the flesh and she urges them not to “walk in compromise.” She is seen in the documentary saying it is right for the government to outlaw homosexuality. Getting American evangelicals to consider the impact of their words and deeds is a major goal for director Williams. In recent weeks he has screened the film at…

Death of a Self-Proclaimed God-Man: Sai Baba’s Controversial Career

By Andrea R. Jain

…ng male devotees in Sai Baba’s bedroom and claimed that they did so in self-defense. The case remains controversial because many details of the incident are unknown. Some speculate that the men were not killed in self-defense but were murdered after they arrived to confront Sai Baba or perhaps kill him in retribution. In retribution for what? There are accusations that Sai Baba sexually abused some of his young male devotees. Such accusations rece…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

…st language from the more explicitly religious binary of Christians/enemies-of-Christ to the secularized language of civilized/savages. In Johnson v. McIntosh, Native people are called, “heathen,” “barbarous” and “Indian savages,” while the settlers are called “Christians” and “civilized inhabitants.” Europeans are said to have a right to the land because they brought “civilization and Christianity.” The religious rhetoric of heathens who had to c…