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The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…on the American South, I looked at the white Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Presbyterians, and Southern Pentecostals, and found that their reaction to rock was almost uniformly negative and very often racialized. They attacked rock as “jungle music,” “congo rhythms,” and “savagery.” In some cases this is ironic because these are some of the very things that Pentecostals were criticized for themselves—for race mixing and having “debased” mu…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…o consider “both sides,” speaking to a Jackson supporter from the National African American Clergy Network and a detractor from the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. The premise of Smith’s piece is supremely unhelpful, if you’ll excuse the phrase. For one thing, as Rob Boston points out in his article, there was far more reason to question Barrett about her faith: she had signed a statement opposing legal abortion, taught at the Christ…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…tly runs into creationists training to be educators. “It’s not only in the South, or in rural areas,” Wiles said. Wiles recently held a workshop for 30 science teachers in the Syracuse city school system. Three of the teachers were actively interested in promoting intelligent design. He suspects that the reason that so few cases make it to the public stage is that many parents aren’t always aware of what’s going on in the classroom. Also, children…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…kplaces and ship the work to the non-union American South or to the Global South, took their predictable devastating toll on private-sector unionism. Surging public sector unionism during this same period saved the American labor movement from complete collapse. But now these public sector unions are also under the gun in a big way. So my question persists: Where were the vast majority of American religious leaders during these decades of attacks…

Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…is.” With all due respect, Rev. Barber is wrong here. Juneteenth isn’t an African American Yom Kippur, it’s a time of joviality and happiness. Photographs from the turn of the 20th century show African Americans in decorated carriages on the way to church, not for funerary processions but for Jubilee Day, a day filled with “communal barbecues, concerts, prayer services, parades, as well as baseball games, fishing, and rodeos.” On the other end of…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…earlier, Santorum had transformed this rhetoric into policy proposal at a South Carolina Fuddruckers appearance with the Duggars, where he argued that low birth rates and a declining American population (also longstanding concerns among the Quiverfull movement) should be fought by tripling the child tax deduction to encourage larger families. “We need to be a hopeful country that wants more children,” Santorum declared. “We’ve had other countries…

The Theology of Westboro: The “World’s Meanest Church” Is More Than Picket Signs

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…e heard so much more widely and creep into secular life, from school dress codes to abstinence-only education. So those people are likely to be irritated. What alternative title would you give the book? Redemption in Topeka: How the World’s Meanest Church Decided to Stop Anti-Gay Picketing and Spend Their Talent and Energy Ending Racism in the Heart of America. Previous to his anti-gay work, Fred Phelps was a civil rights activist who led consider…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…’ rights as an ideology was contradictory and could not mobilize the white South for the long haul. What mobilized the white South was the defense of slavery. Falwell and his new breed of confederate aren’t doing that, of course, but the spirit of treason, if not the act of treason, is the same. Conservatives tell us they prefer slow and gradual change, and stand united against radical attempts to bring it swiftly. But that’s not their true face….

Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…een a very long time coming, from Eurocentrism to the Church of the Global South. Not to mention his reputation as an advocate for the poor, emphasizing the Christian Gospel of love, washing the feet of AIDS victims, and more. The new pope’s legacy will stand him in good stead as well, since his parents were Italians, and he speaks Italian fluently—not a bad thing for a pope—even as he has never served in the Vatican curia, the focus of much criti…

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

…ull and on time. The youngest member of my organization’s staff hails from South Dakota—from a hardscrabble farm family. I asked him yesterday what the folks back home think about the Daschle matter. He said South Dakotans voted Daschle out of office in 2004 because they already had the feeling that he was “getting too big”—that he was rolling in self-importance and had lost contact with the actual lives of High Plains people. I’m very glad Daschl…