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Ponzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry

By Michael J. Altman

In a South Carolina jail only one book is allowed: the Bible—and even then it has to be paperback. The ACLU is suing the jail for its sola scriptura policy. A Muslim inmate in Nebraska is suing Lancaster County because he was served pork while in custody. Senate candidate Sharon Angle’s former pastor denounced her opponent Harry Reid’s Mormonism, calling the Latter-day Saints a cult. Meanwhile, Angle herself warned that Muslim law was taking over…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…ashed the work ethic and entrepreneurial spirits of citizens of the global South. But if we take Burton’s theological investigation of history and apply it to our faithful neighbors, we arrive at a much less paternalistic conclusion. “God will provide,” may seem like an empty, refrigerator-magnet platitude to the non-devout but it is a theological truth to adherents of the Prosperity Gospel in Nigeria. When a majority of Muslims worldwide believe…

DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment

By Andrew L. Seidel

…elsewhere. Reuters documents the harrowing story of one infected person in South Korea attending two church services and spreading COVID to another 1,200 people and that that “Church cluster accounts for at least 60% of all cases in South Korea.” Clerics seeking exemption from social distancing orders are not simply asking for a right to gather and worship, they are also asking for a right to risk the health and lives of every other member of the…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…a student in the early 1990s. He had had a career on the mission field in South America before coming to Fuller, and what brought him there was a book he had written about his time as a missionary called Look out! The Pentecostals are coming. That book chronicled what he termed the “move of the Holy Spirit” in the world today, and that the healing and deliverance ministries of Pentecostalism would reform the church. Wagner is not a theologian—and…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…he Middle East, sometimes defined generously to include Berbers, Turks, or South Asians, as a kind of Islamic heartland, where the “real Islam” exists; those from outside the region are assumed to be more recently converted, and thus less authentically Muslim. This frame’s even used by those who consider it charitable: Indonesia’s Islam is often described as syncretic, which means moderate, implying that “real Islam” is 1) not to be found in Indon…

The SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal is a ‘Success’ Story of the Theological Vision and Social Structure of the ‘Conservative Resurgence’

By Diana Butler Bass

…es as dutiful possessions of their masters. Thus, Baptists in the American South eventually became Southern Baptists—a denomination where a culture of southern patriarchy and deference prevailed. That culture had originated in Anglican prerogative and entitlement, and it was not native to Baptists’ own egalitarian religious movement. Yet, hierarchy reshaped the very meaning and practice of being Baptist, and it displaced spiritual freedom by repla…

Why Hillary Clinton is Truly Unelectable

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d thus quite literally “spectacular.” The shocking margins Obama posted in South Carolina were as great a shocker as the Giants’ performance on Sunday. Quite suddenly, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy looked stalled, and vulnerable. Her husband had a lot to do with that, and therein lies a tale. They’ve never figured out how best to use him; my argument is that, ultimately, they can’t. To be sure, the shift of focus on the campaign trail in the past mo…

RD10Q: Faith and the Presidency: A Cautionary Tale

By Randall Balmer

…of 1965, even though he recognized at the time that he would be ceding the South to the Republican Party for generations. That moral principle, the strong have an obligation to care for the weak, also animated his Great Society ambitions — Medicare, the War on Poverty and the like. Tragically, Johnson also used that principle to justify the deepening of America’s involvement in Vietnam. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic?…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…n Dewey, Glaude is simply showing both sides that “We, too, sing America!” African American thinkers are as much of this grand philosophical tradition as Dewey, James or Pierce. The African American community must both learn from it and live it out in regards to political thought and choices. 5. Victor Anderson, Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience, Fortress Press, April 1, 2008 In many ways this book…

Ten Religion Stories That Went (Mostly) Missing in 2015

By Peter Laarman

…ds of everyday shootings in places like the west side of Baltimore and the south side of Chicago? 6. Toilets. “You can’t go in there!” riles up the righteous in Houston. But, on the other hand, hundreds of congregations are doing small group study on what “trans” means, and many of the faithful merely shrug at the idea of queer Scoutmasters, for God’s sake. Sexual difference seems to be much less frightening to ever larger swathes of American reli…