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Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…Museum. In her book, Building God’s Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction, University of North Florida Professor of Religious Studies Julie Ingersoll has thoroughly documented how homeschooling and Christian school curricula have been effectively used to radicalize evangelical subculture, mainstreaming authoritarian and anti-science views. I happened to have the opportunity to tour both The Creation Museum and Ark Encounter—the two…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…ok. In addition to academics, the book will appeal to anyone interested in Reconstruction-era politics and culture, the widespread belief in ghosts and spirits in America, the politics of race, African American religions, and New Orleans and/or Atlantic world history. I hope the book will be assigned in undergraduate and graduate classes, especially undergraduate. Beyond the academy and its classrooms, A Luminous Brotherhood will bring an academic…

“Fusion Politics” Is the Only Cure to America’s Plutocracy

By Emilie M. Townes

Rev. William Barber’s conversation with Peter Laarman, here in RD, underscores an important strategic lesson for those of us who seek to be justice-makers—we cannot do this work from ahistorical and amoral perches and expect a new day to dawn that will not simply be a remix of the politics of plantation lullabies and prosperity evangelists. We must be steely precise in naming the effects of racism and all of its kin and the ways that money positi…

Moral Mondays: The Battle For Justice Cannot Be Waged Only in the Courts

By Kareem Crayton

On a warm day in July 2013, I found myself on the wrong end of a canceled flight out of RDU Airport. I used the opportunity to travel into downtown Raleigh to observe one of the early Moral Monday rallies at the State Capitol. The gathering was ostensibly called to protest the legislature’s newly gerrymandered district map – among the most tortured in the nation. I expected to find a group of committed, passionate citizens (mostly people of color…