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‘My Name is Legion’: Sources and Forces of White Supremacy in the U.S.

By R. Drew Smith

…ies necessary for carrying out a range of Godly purposes, with the purpose most often cited being that of Christianizing and civilizing the benighted slaves. Typical of this genre were views expressed by a Methodist minister in North Carolina, Washington S. Chaffin who asserted, nature has “drawn lines of demarcation between (blacks) and (whites) that no physical, mental or religious cultivation can obliterate.” Because of what he considered to be…

The Religious Right and the Tea Party on “Education Choice”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ivists (many of whom are now involved in the tea party) have long been, at most, ambivalent about how to engage issues related to the public schools they do not think should exist. To the surprise of many, they often oppose voucher and tuition tax credit plans, charter schools, and even efforts to teach creationism in the public schools or return prayer to the public schools. As the Times article points out, the tea party seems to be more united i…

Teach Your Children Well: Challenging Religion-Based Sexism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…eant that they could not give their ultimate all for the number one man on most African-American womens’ lips, and it’s not Denzel.” Women as Sluts, Men as Savages As the Religious Right continues to gut women’s rights, its cultural propaganda suggests that the only way a woman can truly be validated as a moral being is through the policing of her body and her sexuality. Tragically, some of the most vociferous defenders of this regime are other wo…

The Black Church: Institution or Abstraction?

By Anthony B. Pinn

…churches committed to some version of the social gospel whereby they understand Christian commitment to involve service to community. The latter involves a more rigorous attention to personal salvation as the primary concern of Christian ministry and practice. And all of this is just in terms of Protestant churches. I have not even mentioned the roughly three million African American Catholics in the United States. Nor, have I given any space to…

Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…onstructions of religious authority, identity, and practice are changing almo*]}*st by the minute. This surely marks the beginning something of a Second Coming of religion in digitally-integrated form. As we wait and watch this holiday season for, among other things, news of the much-anticipated Facebook IPO—perhaps the only miracle story compelling enough to capture our attention in these economic dark times—it seems worthwhile to take a look at some…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…on is really, really difficult to define. But, look: they have a point. In most of the world, for most of history, cultures had very little notion of a discrete thing called “religion,” as something that you could then choose, reject, or petition for freedom of. The choice to constellate certain kinds of rituals, stories, propositions and epistemological modes into a single package called “religion” is a fairly recent, European, and Protestant phe…

Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

By Peter Montgomery

…e which religious institutions are ‘religious enough’ to merit protection of their religious liberty.” In Seattle, it would appear, parishes are asserting liberty from instructions (or at least strong suggestions) by the hierarchy, and in a season when the Seattle Archdiocese is asking for support in its Annual Catholic Appeal fundraising drive….

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…struggle for Christian values,” Dodon indicated. “The Orthodox Church is a most authoritative institute of Moldovan society today.” Australia: debates shift to religious rights and next priorities for LGBT movement With marriage equality in effect, debate has shifted to the question of religious exemptions. From The Sydney Morning Herald’s Eryk Bagshaw: The Greens will use Phillip Ruddock’s review of religious freedoms to build momentum for an Aus…

As Psychedelics Experience a Renaissance, Emory’s New Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality Seeks a Novel Approach

By Hollis Phelps

…ion course. When I first began to teach on the topic, my students, for the most part, approached the suggestion that certain drugs may occasion experiences that resemble experiences we deem ‘religious’ with skepticism. Most, having come from religious backgrounds, been taught that drugs and religion simply don’t mix, a suspicion that not only tracked with broader sociocultural and political assumptions about psychedelics, but one that consigned th…

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) and the Rise of Extreme Evangelicalism

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ity is about the mission field itself as a chance to put the body to the test. Just how treacherous was the mission field became the measure of one’s faith. Fulfilling the Great Commission meets adventure travel. It was in the mid-twentieth century that the switch from muscular to extreme occurred, as the global expansion of U.S. power aligned with the rise of Billy Graham (his famous New York City crusade was in 1957), the founding of Campus Crus…