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The Black Church: Institution or Abstraction?

By Anthony B. Pinn

…churches across the country; some of them rather large and others small in number. In using this phrase, we must remain mindful of the similarities and differences between local congregations, spread across urban and rural areas that the term, “Black Church,” easily covers. It is true that the term speaks to a generic embrace of the Christian faith found within African American communities. For example, this involves some concern for the Christ ev…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…searchers control for one confounding variable here: socioeconomic status. Number of siblings? The researchers didn’t address that, even though religious engagement can be correlated with family size (thanks to a Reddit commenter for pointing this out). Amount of exposure to other kids outside of school? Ditto. Parents’ education levels? Missing. Heterogeneity of the surrounding community? Also left out. And so on. More slippery, though, is that t…

United By Hate for Proposition 8

By Jonathan L. Walton

…dominant evangelical orientation of the black church coupled with a large number of Catholic Latino voters may just provide the support Prop 8 needs—it has been said, “politics makes for strange bedfellows.” Yet I am hopeful that enough minority voters will view this amendment for what it is, state-sanctioned discrimination and a bible-based prohibition against exogamy, which is reminiscent of previous state bans on interracial marriage that defi…

Swiftboating Obama’s Health Care Reform?

By Bill Berkowitz

…the Federalist Society, the Manhattan Institute, L. Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Bozell’s Parents Television Council, Regnery Publishing, and Phillip Anschutz’s Walden Media. As I reported late last year for MediaTransparency, SourceWatch , a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, pointed out that CRC was involved “in an attempt to hold…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…world” made “impressive gains,” noting advances in marriage equality in a number of nations. But the article also notes “horrific crackdowns on LGBT people” in Chechnya, Egypt, Uganda, Tajikistan, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Tanzania.” At The Global Americans, Javier Corrales recaps the year’s top 10 LGBT stories from Latin America and the Caribbean. Xtra’s Rob Salerno wrote that under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada was a pr…

Markets and Morality: Faith-Based Investment Group Profiles Polluters

By Frederick Clarkson

…lative to other companies in the pharmaceutical sector. But it has taken a number of decisive actions to reduce its risk “exposure” regarding greenhouse gases. Abbott has taken for example, a “Climate Responsible Energy Policy” that includes a five year plan for reducing the emission of CO2, our principal greenhouse gas. Among other things they are developing a carbon-neutral vehicle fleet: it is the first and only Fortune 500 company to commit to…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…Action’s Bruce Wilson with another video exposé. Wilson and Ruth, his co-researcher and co-documentarian, have done an extraordinary job trying to bring information about the realities of Sarah Palin’s religious relationships to the spotlight. And while the mainstream media hasn’t picked up on the Palin videos—as they did with Pastor John Hagee’s ‘Hitler was sent by God’ video that went viral and mainstream—Wilson and company are on the job. In a…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…of the cases in five Southern states and Nevada. In subsequent years, the numbers fell: there were 209 church arsons in 1997 and 166 the following year, according to their annual reports. The last report was issued in 2001. Altogether there were almost 900 reported cases of church arson in the late 1990s—a huge number compared to what we’ve seen in the last two weeks. A second difference is that of public response. In 1995-96, there was a unique…

Washington Post Critic’s Coded Racial Comments On New ABC Host Christiane Amanpour

By Hussein Rashid

…and domestic policy as most Bush speechwriters. By dint of his extended research about the show Saturday Night Live, Shales believes he is qualified to assert that Amanpour’s background of being half-Iranian makes her anti-Israel. He cites, in support of his argument, a Facebook group that has 60 members. Fortunately, the ever incisive Glenn Greenwald quickly attacked Shales on the merits of the argument. I think Greenwald stops short of followin…

Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

By Rob Shryock

…r PC society etc.” The number of supportive and sometimes racist posts outnumber those who advice caution. I can’t suspect such hideous posts are all from Saddleback membership. I’m sure quite a number are. It’s as disturbing as it is disgusting. Warren commented on Tsang’s article, “Thanks so much for teaching us! It was removed instantly.” However, Warren did not get around to posting a formal, public apology until the next day, once again,…