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Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…is that White people do not attend Juneteenth festivals in any appreciable numbers. This month I attended two Juneteenth festivals in the Columbia, South Carolina metropolitan area and the results were the same: minimum White attendance. Both events were free to the public, with ideal weather and plenty of good food and entertainment. Whereas a cross-section of Black America was in attendance, Whites stuck out like rice in chocolate pudding. But t…

And What of the Non-Jewish Jews?

By Shaul Magid

…ancestry generations ago, a Jewish spouse, Jewish friends etc. In terms of numbers, Jews by religion or no religion make up 2.2% of the U.S. population, but if you add “People with a Jewish affinity” it rises to 2.7%, so that this category of people who are not considered Jews by the Jewish community but identify as Jews is nearly 25% of the Jews by religion or no religion, those we conventionally call “Jews.” The fact that there are so many Ameri…

Bearing Witness: The Work of Hospital Chaplains

By Wendy Cadge

…in the contemporary United States. This results, in part, from their small numbers. Researchers estimate that there are 10,000 health care chaplains across the country. Colleagues and I found that between 1980 and 2003, 54% to 64% of hospitals had chaplaincy services, with no systematic trend over the period. In 1993 and 2003, smaller hospitals and those in rural areas were less likely to have chaplaincy services while church operated hospitals we…

It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

By Patricia Miller

…y within you, and that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country. The odd Yoda-like phrasing of “the dogma lives loudly within you,” aside, Feinstein was asking a fair question about how the execution of Barrett’s religious beliefs would comport with her duties as a judge—a question that Barrett herself had raised, albeit in an article written some years ago. Barrett assured the…

New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…ands up for people with their beliefs, and even fewer approve of him. Both numbers are much lower than any other segment. Furthermore, almost the identical number of Republicans and White evangelicals believe Trump champions their beliefs and have a favorable opinion of him. Given that, it’s easy to see who makes up Trump’s political base. So let’s assume that White evangelicals don’t think much of Trump’s personal piety. But they do trust him to…

Trump Turns Evangelical-GOP Coalition Topsy-Turvy

By Daniel Schultz

…are of itself: The Battleground Poll has the Clinton-Trump God gap at under 15 points, with those who say they go to church at least once a week preferring Trump to Clinton by nine points and those attending less frequently preferring Clinton to Trump by less than six. That compares to a God gap in 2012 of nearly 40 points. Emphasis mine: Trump has reduced the GOP lead among religious voters by 25 percentage points in just four years, a shift that…

Obama’s Divisive Choice of Rick Warren

By Michelle Goldberg

…rren as the centrist alternative to the religious right, they consign vast numbers of people, including many of the party’s most dedicated supporters, to the fringe. “It does strengthen Warren as kind of a new Billy Graham figure,” says the Reverend Dan Schultz, a United Church of Christ pastor and the founder of the progressive religious blog Street Prophets. That has especial relevance for Warren’s role in Africa, where a very conservative kind…

One in Eight Biology Teachers Creationists

By Lauri Lebo

…t have time to do something that is at best poor science.” Sadly, the high numbers of openly proselytizing teachers doesn’t surprise me. I’ve run into far too many educators who view the classroom as their own personal church pulpit. And until a student is willing to stand up to this religious bullying and blatant violation of the First Amendment, there’s not a lot that can be done. But for the 60 percent of teachers who are too timid to take a st…

So You Want to Write an Article Deflecting All Blame From Christianity: A Handy Guide

By Robert Repino

…ey’re Christian, because they’re doing the will of God, because there is a spiritual battle being waged at this very moment! This is what happens when the stakes are raised so high, and the reality checks are removed. If something can be said to have happened to American Christianity, it would be the fact that so many people have opted to leave, and in unprecedented numbers. While authors like Wehner plead with their congregations to reclaim Jesus…

Sotomayor, Evangelicals, and Racism

By Michael J. Altman

…any problems for the Republicans right now. Senators from states with high numbers of Latino/Latina voters find themselves having to, on one hand, deny the existence of institutional and social racism while on the other hand keep the votes of folks experiencing this impersonal systemic force on a regular basis. The “there’s no racism just racists” argument doesn’t fly in Houston, TX like it does on Capitol Hill. The Evangelical understanding of ra…