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(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…invitation. There was a guy who worked for a PCUSA session here in central Florida [who told] us about a marriage coming up at a church near us and said he could get us an invitation. I thought it was weird. We’d go if we were invited, but how strange to be this token couple coming to this wedding where we don’t know anyone. We have plenty of gay and lesbian friends and family who, I am just waiting on them to invite [us] not only to attend, but p…

The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music

By Joshua Guthman

…there were, by the 1830s, tens of thousands of them crowding churches from Florida’s swamplands to Illinois’s prairie? Tell me more, I thought. Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture Joshua Guthman UNC Press (September 28, 2015) What’s the most important take-home message for readers? That the Primitive Baptists’ story is an unlikely one, but a vital one, an American one. Beneath that message are three stories. The first one prow…

The Radical Background of Harry Reid’s GOP Opponent

By Julie Ingersoll

…s, but to Republicans; leaders have criticized Sarah Palin for calling on tea partiers to choose one of the major parties. The party is officially on the ballot in at least 17 states including Florida, where Bernie DeCastro, an ex-con turned prison minister, its candidate running for U.S. Senate, thinks tea party favorite Marco Rubio is too liberal. …

The Sad Incoherence of Jeb’s Abortion Position

By Patricia Miller

…self “probably the most pro-life governor in modern times.” As governor of Florida, he signed a bill creating “Choose Life” license plates to fund controversial anti-abortion “pregnancy counseling” centers and intervened in two cases to prevent a mentally disabled rape victim and a 13-year-old girl who was a ward of the state from having abortions. He also signed a parental consent law, a TRAP law placing strict regulation on abortion clinics, and…

Why Won’t the President Say “Islamic Terrorists?”

By Paula Cooey

…ies to come over to his home to cook out in the back yard so that their children might play together and so that they can learn more about each other. And the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida has banned all “Trumps” from entry into the city in response to Trump’s call to ban the entry of all Muslims into the United States. …

Party of Religious Liberty Botches Debate on Religion and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…sident hadn’t failed to keep us safe. Blitzer, for example, pointed out to Florida Senator Marco Rubio that he has said banning Muslims is unconstitutional, but that a majority of Republicans support Donald Trump’s proposal to do just that. “Why are they wrong?” Blitzer asked. The last thing Rubio, running behind Trump and new-Iowa frontrunner Ted Cruz, wants to do, of course, is tell the majority of Republicans they’re wrong. “Well, I understand…

How Obama Made Gun Control A Religious Freedom Issue

By Sarah Posner

…was Lucia McBath, whose son Jordan was shot dead in a car in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2012. McBath, the subject of the riveting 2015 film The Armor of Light, described to me in an interview last year how her own faith drove her to take on political advocacy for gun control after Jordan’s death. The film documents her friendship with the Rev. Rob Schenck, the religious right activist who has taken on a solitary battle to persuade his fellow white…

The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

By Sarah Posner

…and their leaders to stridently march through Arab neighborhoods with megaphones through which they shout nationalist slogans, hailing their sovereignty over the streets. “These Jerusalemites,” Mort goes on, “have existed as ghosts to the majority of Israeli Jews and American Jews who don’t usually travel east of the holy basin in the Old City and who have no conception of Arab Israelis’ daily lives or desires.” (emphasis mine) Tariq isn’t a ghos…

The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…worry about all this but-are-they-people? stuff, too. There’s a pastor in Florida who’s been looking at how to win over AI souls when the time comes. HL: Ah, interesting. I wonder how you win over an AI soul? And I suppose you might worry both how we treat AI souls for their own sakes, but also what’s the most humane way to treat things that humans almost certainly will have empathy for, while remaining agnostic about the nature of AI souls. MHS:…

Can a Church Split Truly Be Gracious?

By Adam J. Copeland

…erians, calling itself a new Reformed body. Their website reports they now number 127 congregations and 213 pastors. Most of these come from the PCUSA. Beyond my denomination, there is a growing rift and talk of a possible schism in the United Methodist Church. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has lost approximately 600 congregations in the past few years. The Anglican Communion views the Episcopal Church of the United States with increa…