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Have White Evangelicals Finally Lost Control of the Narrative?

By Chrissy Stroop

…hort. But he also credited those of us who have been speaking out over the last few years with influencing the change that seems to be underway: The steady work of people publicly sharing their stories of deconstruction, their stories of abuse, their stories of triumph and flourishing after leaving evangelicalism over the past several years is yielding results. Hashtags like #exvangelical, #EmptyThePews, #ChurchToo, #deconstruction, #decolonize, #…

Georgia Gov Vetoes Right-To-Discriminate Bill

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…iscriminatory, and unconstitutional. Two of Georgia’s three biggest cities—Atlanta and Savannah—both have municipal ordinances banning some forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and others may follow suit. Atlanta’s ordinance is particularly broad, banning LGBT and marital status discrimination in housing, public accommodations, and private employment. HB 757 would have allowed religious organizations, individual…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…tover. New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in the suburbs of Atlanta, pushed #IAmResurrection, with the hashtag scrawled, in enormous, blood red font across the top of church’s Easter-themed webpage: Christian Faith Center, in Seattle, used #RememberFriday and #CelebrateSunday, while Hillsong, the Australian-turned-global megachurch musical phenomenon, ran an entire branded campaign around #crossequalslove. Other churches used Easter…

Religion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…uslims in France already feel demeaned, and for many the cartoons were the last straw. But no matter the keenly-felt injury of satire there is nothing, as so many have said this week, that could justify the brutality of this attack—or any similar vengeful violence. There is plenty of satire that angers or wounds religious folk without causing violence—the 1989 photograph of a statue of Jesus on the cross immersed in a jar of urine comes to mind. I…

Public Religion in a Post-Christian Age, Graduation Edition

By David Gushee

…children graduated from a large, quite diverse public high school here in Atlanta. Both went to baccalaureate services and graduation exercises. At none of these four events was any kind of religious expression attempted, not even at the baccalaureate services held at local churches. I was also struck by the lack of any kind of patriotic or ethical exhortation. The graduation events were primarily memorable for their extraordinary speed. Lacking…

Don’t Blame Religion for Boston Bombings

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…age; the 2010 Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad; and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic park bombing by Eric Robert Rudolph, to name a few. Some of these were committed by Christians, some by Muslims, and some by those with no particular religious affiliation at all. In almost all cases, though, these have been instances where lonely, alienated individuals have raged against a society that they thought had abandoned them. These lone wolf events…

Liberal Intolerance, Or, an Occasion for Public Theology

By Byron Williams

Earlier this summer, a short item in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution told the story of Dr. Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, a scholar recently dismissed from his teaching position at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta. The story was that this was the result of Hopkins’ adherence to so-called “biblical orthodoxy,” which differed from the mainstream culture of the seminary. At the heart of the case of Dr. Hopkins, who is an evange…

Herman Cain Sings For the Press

By Anthea Butler

…into the conversation. Cain, a member of Antioch Baptist church North in Atlanta, Ga, has mentioned his Christian faith on the campaign trail, and has recorded a gospel album. Cain’s singing of “He looked beyond my faults” was, in my opinion, a combination of minstrel show, an Amos and Andy riff without Amos, and a sly admission. By going into entertainment mode with the crowd, Cain tried to both deftly testify to his faith with his Teavangelica…

Anti-Gay Tour Organizer Comes Out for Gay Marriage, Renounces Hate

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…porter of marriage equality. He writes at his blog: Ironically, one of the last tour stops added to the itinerary was Atlanta and I bring this site up because it was in Atlanta that I can remember that I questioned what I was doing for the first time. The NOM showing in the heart of the Bible-belt was dismal and the hundreds of counter-protesters who showed up were nothing short of inspiring. Even though I had been confronted by the counter-protes…

GOP Hopeful Herman Cain: Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative”

By Michael J. Altman

…inted out religious right connections and he’s continued to step those up. Last month he wrote a Christmas column for World Net Daily titled “An Example for America: The Perfect Conservative” in which he turned the carpenter from Nazareth into Ronald Reagan: He helped the poor without one government program. He healed the sick without a government health-care system. He fed the hungry without food stamps. And everywhere He went, it turned into a r…