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Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…here the brothers grew up. When he has this revelatory insight, Jake isn’t listening to a barbershop quartet or the Mormon Tabernacle choir or the Ray Conniff Singers. He is standing dumbfounded and awestruck in the presence of the Triple Rock Baptist Church Choir, backing the Rev. Cleophus James (James Brown), singing the gospel standard “The Old Landmark.” For this scene to work, even or especially as musical comedy (and it does, despite driftin…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ar more troubled and far more discordant than his own, Father Matthew just listened, meditated, prayed, and never failed to offer a well-timed word of comfort. He was his own man, and knew his own mind, but from that quiet stillness and firmness of purpose—he was able to gaze out upon a wider and far more unstable world of human forms. Born Charles Richard Kelty Jr., in South Boston (in 1915, just like Merton), his parents were no artists. His fat…

Atheists Battle for High School Clubs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on to such clubs is based in religion—as was the fight over a GSA in Irmo, South Carolina. The principal of Irmo High School, Eddie Walker, eventually resigned over the club, later saying he opposed it because he views “the world from a biblical perspective and my view of that was that it was wrong.” Gays and lesbians are not alone in their battle for high school clubs. Next up: atheists. The Secular Student Alliance, which promotes atheism and hu…

Tea Party Needs a History Lesson on Islam in America

By Michael J. Altman

…ods between India and New England, some of America’s trading partners were South Asian Muslims. These two economic factors helped keep the young country afloat in the first decades of the nineteenth century. (Check Kambiz GhaneaBassiri’s A History of Islam in America for the whole story.) So, Mr. Dennis, yes the founding fathers were not Muslims, but they depended on Muslims — whether as forced labor or trading partners. It’s American history, li…

The Tea Party Religion

By Sarah Posner

…e flag and God), despite initial worries that the tea parties inadequately promoted the “life” issues. The problem with much of the reporting on a tea party-religious right alliance has focused on the turf battles between leaders, and disputes over whether to emphasize the social issues over economic ones at tea party events. Based on my own reporting, though, the absence of bloody fetus posters at tea party rallies says nothing about the interest…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…00 primary had the Arizona Senator sought the favor of Christian fundamentalist king-makers rather than denouncing them with such rhetoric. Presumably, McCain had access to the results of a landmark 2002 academic study (updating an earlier 1994 study) on the influence of the Christian right in American state-level GOP party structures. Kimberly Conger and John C. Green’s study, entitled “Spreading Out and Digging In: Christian Conservatives and St…

It’s Up to You, New York… To Oppose Islamophobia

By Randall Balmer

…le Swedes and Finns became the early denizens on the Delaware River to the South. Early reports filtering back to Amsterdam told of Huguenots, Mennonites, Brownists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, even “many atheists and various other servants of Baal.” In 1654 the Sainte Catherine pulled into port, carrying twenty-three Sephardic Jews, refugees from Recifé. Why did they choose New Amsterdam? The Netherlands was the most tolerant society in Eu…

RD10Q: Spiritual Survival for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ecome. What’s your new book? My next book urges us all to become fundamentalists. But, not the 1920s “five fundamentals” that has led to the rigidity and bigotry of today’s Christianity. Instead, I’m proposing five new fundamentals that result in a more gracious, loving, and welcoming Christianity. As a friend of mine in church once said, “We’re all fundamentalists about something. It just depends on your fundamentals.” For too long, the fundament…

Along Came a Spider: What the Pope Doesn’t See

By Anthea Butler

…x-Stripper: Priest is my baby’s father—and I want him to pay.” Before I go south and start to write this whole piece with quotes from songs (“That’s Just My Baby Daddy” comes to mind) I am struck with disgust about where the Catholic church, and lately Miami’s Archdiocese in particular, finds itself in matters of church discipline. Between the former Father Cutie and his recent marriage (props to him, at least he left and got married like a normal…

Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…vative, in popular parlance) stance on religion. He associates mostly with South Asian immigrants, even going to Pakistan for a while, which, I believe, explains his ability to render the immigrant experience so well. He has a crisis of faith that happens as he learns about Shi’ism: I had been taught to revere that first generation. The Prophet had said that they would be the greatest Muslims of all time, seconded by the generation immediately aft…