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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

…hat’s going to happen in the next election. That’s why there are all these stories about Trump voters at the local diner. And in fact, there are celebrations of others, albeit in different terms, and unevenly and unequally. There are lots of profiles of liberal religious leaders, particularly Black leaders; there was a lot of coverage of couples getting married when same-sex marriage was legalized around the nation; there was coverage of the spont…

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…ives voice to a character who learned to sing hosannas on my knees, was corrupted by the feel of whiskers on her cheek, and now lives with slight consolations: it’s beefsteak when I’m working, whiskey when I’m dry, and sweet heaven when I die. Welch’s songs are shot through with characters whose lives of struggles are balanced with the desire to see Jesus, to read the Gospel pages. They want to see that my hobo soul will rise, or reach the Glory L…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom, about the farmers, workers, and clergy of rural Mississippi and the organizing they did far away from the spotlight. These grassroots stories are usually given only cursory attention—if any attention at all—yet they contain vital lessons for all of us. When I set out to write Beyond $15, I resolved that since I was privileged to have a publishing platform, I would put workers, clergy, and grassroots activists where…

It’s Complicated: When “None” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It

By Tucker FitzGerald

…hip with evangelical Christianity itself. A deep sense of knowing that the world of Hebrew and Christian scriptures are, in a consequential way, true. An angry, stumbling, ancient G-D. Bewildered community. Mysterious hope that defies logical explanations. Tent pegs through the skull. Innocent animals cut to pieces. Cities laid waste. A burning tower of fire that won’t go out. There is the haunting sense of these stories being more real outside th…

Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A Progressive Christian Response

By Eric Reitan

…our public schools with depravity. Jesus said that we should distinguish true and false teachings by their fruits. And the teaching that homosexuality is a sin—that, in the words of the Southern Baptist Convention, even the desire for homosexual sex is “always sinful, impure, degrading, shameful, unnatural, indecent, and perverted”—this is a teaching that time and again has born poisonous fruits. The shattered promise of Zach Harrington’s life is…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…to the Norse mythology, in which Ragnarök is the battle at the end of the world. His worldview is apocalyptic as well as conspiratorial. The conspiracy theories that Angeli references are all familiar to me through my research into New Age spirituality in Sedona, Arizona. I was told that there was a secret underground base underneath the town where alien experiments were undertaken, that free energy was possible if only the dark cabal hadn’t kept…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sizes being safe and secure and getting away from the dangers we face. In truth, a lot of people in this world are in danger all the time. Most of us are probably struggling most of the time. Those who preach the prosperity gospel would say that if you don’t feel safe you’ve done something wrong or that God is punishing you. We’re taught that security is our birthright—if we’re faithful enough. When we see others living in insecurity, like refugee…

The Bible is a Good Book, But God Didn’t Write It

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…now we believe we should be the majority. I don’t think that’s ever been the biblical image. The saving remnant was the powerful idea in the Hebrew Scriptures and I think that continues in the Christian tradition. But, we’ve gotten triumphal. We turned Christianity into Christendom and we rule the world. We’ve seated kings and unseated kings. We got drunk with that kind of power and we forgot how to be a Christian. I hope we can recover that and I…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…got this one. At times we’re the P**i racial slur. Other times we’re the N-word. Sometimes we’re neither Black enough nor Brown enough at all. (Some predatory grifting gurus seem to think we’re all actually melatonin rich, but who can afford to sleep in this economy?) If we step aside to let our more melaninated cousins speak, we’re accused of being ashamed of our heritage. If we’re too loud about Black pride, we’re taking the limelight because we…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…sarily vote Republican. When it became clear that in the popular mind the word evangelical was more a social and political construct than a theological one, it set off a scramble to accurately self-identify in books, articles, and blog posts among evangelicals of all stripes. There are those who defend the theological roots of the term and wish to reclaim it from social rebranding, and others who recognize their own views in the social and politi…