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Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Poverty Law Center released its report on the WCF’s gathering in Tbilisi, Georgia last month, which it said showcased anti-LGBT rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Mexico: President promotes constitutional guarantee of LGBT equality; Mormon Church objects As Mexico’s complicated march toward nationwide marriage equality continues, President Enrique Peña Nieto wrote in Huffington Post about initiatives he introduced in May to establish a constitutio…

Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…measures were introduced, and laws were enacted in seven states (Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma and South Dakota). The new laws in Arkansas, Georgia and Minnesota require that women be told that a fetus may be able to feel pain (and that they be offered the option of having anesthesia administered directly to the fetus), even though there is no scientific evidence to support this statement; these provisions are similar…

Young Male Congregants Sue Televangelist Eddie Long, Alleging Sexual Coercion

By Sarah Posner

…elevangelist Eddie Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, charge that as teenagers and participants in the church-sponsored Longfellows Church Academy, Long coerced them into sexual relationships with him. Long, the leader of the 25,000-member church and a prominent figure in both televangelism and politics, and in particular in anti-gay activism and “reparative therapy” for gays and lesbians, denied the allegations throu…

Books Must be Hardbound, Quotes Whole, and Genitalia Scrubbed

By Joseph Laycock

…rity to the case in Bronson. Last August, Hermant Mehta wrote on a case in Georgia where atheists objected that a cabin in a government-owned state park offered Bibles in the nightstand. The Bibles were initially removed, but governor Nathan Deal ordered them put back. He argued that that Bibles did not violate the establishment clause because they had been paid for by outside groups. He then added that, “Any group is free to donate literature.” T…

The Gospel Gestalt: From Joyful Noise to Whitney Houston

By Douglas Harrison

…flict through their fight over the future of gospel music in the Pacashau, Georgia Sacred Divinity Choir, which, in addition to having the most gifted singers and kick-ass band of any rural church I’ve ever been in or heard of, is a place of astonishingly peaceful integration of blacks, whites, Asians, and Hispanics at various socioeconomic levels. Kumbaya. Is Post-Racial Possible? It’s easy to ding the film for simultaneously indulging in a prolo…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…mbition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow (University of Georgia) blooms from a careful, revelatory reconstruction of the spiritual and economic lives of black Baptists in Savannah, Georgia into a critical mediation on the competing philosophies of late nineteenth-century black nationalism that upends the simplistic notions of accommodation and resistance through which Jim Crow-era black leadership is often described. Her impress…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…were surprised, perplexed and even shocked that the Churches of Bulgaria, Georgia, Antioch and Russia changed their minds about attending at the very last minute (less than two weeks before the opening of the council), especially when absolutely nothing had transpired in the meanwhile! The current mood in Crete is peaceful and determined. The Churches that have arrived for the official opening are already working on the draft message to be publis…

Our Economic Theocracy

By Sarah Posner

…prayer at the Capitol was delivered by one Rev. Rick Postell of Brunswick, Georgia, the guest chaplain sponsored by Georgia Republican Jack Kingston, a backer of the Boehner plan rejected by House Tea Partiers. Postell prayed: Heavenly Father, We come to You in Jesus name on behalf of this great nation. We ask for your forgiveness of our transgressions, and to thank you for your blessings and favor upon America. Keep us mindful of your word, “Righ…

Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ely places Putin would strike next, along with Estonia and the Republic of Georgia. All have breakaway regions with large Russian-speaking populations and historical ties to both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union; and all are the site of complex jurisdictional conflicts between the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and local independent Orthodox bishops, usually acting with the support of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, a kind o…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation Benjamin P. Fagan University of Georgia Press June 2016 Initially, though, this was going to be a book about the ways in which black newspapers theorized and enacted American national identity. But as I read and reread the pages of Freedom’s Journal, the Colored American, the North Star, the Provincial Freeman, and the Weekly Anglo-African, I couldn’t help but notice the overwhelming presence of scriptura…