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Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…d without jeopardizing their tax-exemption? “Our hands would be tied!” she complained. That would be the point, at least when it comes to political candidates. When a church applies for tax exemption, the institution agrees to abide by certain rules, which are intended to enforce the separation of church and state. Officially, the IRS prohibits “voter education or registration activities with evidence of bias that (a) would favor one candidate ov…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…for whom I work.” In light of this development, Texas has unequivocally become ground zero for the nationwide assault on trans people being carried out by the Christian Right and the GOP—an assault that’s advancing to disturbing degrees in a number of Republican-controlled states, even if a court in Texas has stayed the investigation into the Does, for now. Apart from that context, I wouldn’t bother writing a column about an incident of online bu…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…certain religious beliefs – as it is “widely accepted that only those who commit adultery in their past life become homosexual as a form of punishment”. The story says that depite persistent cultural prejudice, there have been “some tentative steps forward,” including public events on World AIDS Day and the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Malaysia: Government hosts competition for videos to ‘prevent’ homosexuality…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…respectability politics in favor of direct protest, hoping to afflict the comfortable and rattle the complicit. He has also increasingly embraced social media as a tool for changing perspectives, using the #JusticeForJesus hashtag to tweet modern retellings of the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus through the lens of the Black Lives Matter movement. Rev. McBride, center Ferguson has taken a fraught place in the American imagination. The small neigh…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…ely that outside of RD, we’ll ever hear much about those voters’ religious commitments, or how increasing secularization among young Blacks shapes the community’s politics. Jack Jenkins had a chapter on it in his new book, and that’s all I’ve seen. Chrissy: Ha! I watched a lot of cartoons from my parents’ generation when I was a kid. And yes, I think that good religion journalism ought to be covering mainline and progressive as well as authoritari…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ent with the nations, that the sheep nations, beginning with Israel, would come into the fullness of your Kingdom coming, on Earth as it is in Heaven.” Apostle Lance Wallnau and Henry Matir, President of the Asian American Network in Phoenix, Arizona, April 2024. Image: The Lance Wallnau Show This episode illustrates how Christian nationalism—NAR-style—is less about the American nation than the nation’s role in God’s intentions for the world, nota…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…lication, Mansfield did an interview with Ben Smith, a writer for Politico.com (the online wing of the Politico news organization). In the column, titled “Bush Backer Pens pro-Obama Book,” Smith writes that the book’s “tone ranges from gently critical to gushing, and the author defends Obama—and even his controversial former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—from conservative critics, and portrays him as a compelling figure for Christian voters.”…

#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

By Andre E. Johnson

…r churches. I mean, what would it look like for a group of white clergy to come to a bank of microphones and declare that black lives matter—or for those same clergy to request a meeting with the police director and the DA? My thinking about this is influenced by a book I’ve recently read: Joseph Reiff’s, Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society. It is the story of 28 United Methodist pastors who stood against the segr…

Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

By Sunnivie Brydum

…n credit in spaces supposedly dedicated to honoring women. https://twitter.com/zenbuffy/status/793775650159165440 https://twitter.com/sianushka/status/793713417945223168 https://twitter.com/HOBTempestRose/status/793794280187916288 I’m not a biological essentialist. I take people’s identity at their word. But here’s the thing—Bono self-identifies as a man. He says so right in the Glamour interview. And while the publication tries to explain that wo…

White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

By Chrissy Stroop

…y supporting local activists and his congregation in addition to his other commitments, Dr. Johnson generously agreed to comment for this article. Responding to a question about Andy Stanley, he expanded on his lament about the need for black bodies to provide American redemption. “Whenever we talk about how God is going to use something evil for good, why does it have to take black bodies being strangled out, to be strangled and killed, on camera…