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Yankton Sioux Revive Isnati Coming of Age Ceremony

By Joanna Brooks

I was deeply heartened to learn this weekend that in South Dakota women of the Yankton Sioux/Ihanktonw Oyate nation have revived the traditional Isnati coming-of-age ceremony for girls: four days after the onset of a girl’s first menses when adult women of the community nourish, bathe, teach, and rename girls and guide them in rituals of self-reliance like gathering their own medicines, making their own ceremonial foods, and erecting their own lo…

Even Conservative Pollsters Find Growing Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…er groups. Men, blacks, and those living in the traditionally conservative South are less accepting of gays and lesbians; but even there, the numbers are encouraging. Fifty-five percent of men said they strongly or somewhat agree that there’s nothing wrong with same-sex marriage, while 47 percent of blacks said the same thing, and a majority of southern millennials, 56 percent, agreed. In fact, out of all of the subcategories, it’s only in the bla…

Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico

By Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…e credible alternatives to the recent drug war. In a recent interview, novelist Vincete Linero, author of The Crime of Padre Amaro, asserted that if the Church had persisted in its liberationist social vision “we would not now be seeing this wave of crimes in which the druglords have taken over Cuernavaca.”* Spiritual Money Laundering The Church also has been widely criticized by Mexican journalists for accepting “narcolimosnas,” or drug-tithes, f…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…the very small class of free black slaveholders in the nineteenth-century South. After his death, Bryan’s nephew, Andrew Marshall, took the pulpit at First African Baptist, and became one of the best known (and most controversial) black ministers of the antebellum era, leading to a major schism of the church body. In the early twentieth century, First African was rather famous for its fights and dissension, but eventually became known as well for…

Mormonism’s “9/11 Mosque Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…ormon missionaries and when Mormon elders were tarred and feathered in the South. It’s a timely and necessary reminder. Because from the chatter around the Mormon blogosphere, I’m gathering that politically opportunistic anti-Muslim sentiment is simmering in the more conservative sectors of the LDS world. And whereas one usually hears valiant reports on the Mormon grapevine of LDS humanitarian responses to major natural disasters, I’m getting at…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

…of America. The lesson then connects the site of Prince’s prayer, the Old South Church, to Samuel Adams and thus to the American Revolution. It trumpets the role of the “Black Robe Brigade,” putting ministers at the center of the revolution while ignoring the fact that Christian ministers could be found on both sides of the conflict. This is an incredible distortion of American history, and it highlights a tremendous irony: by adopting this expli…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…e claims made against it were that it did not recognize secular authority, promoted intolerance and violence, and demanded blind obedience to its ancient doctrines. These are all charges currently made against Islam as a religion. In the late 19th century, the prominent nativist Josiah Strong wrote, “It has been shown that it is the avowed purpose of Romanists to ‘make America Catholic.’ It has been shown that this could not be done without bringi…

Glenn Beck’s History “Professor” David Barton On Racism and the Three-Fifths Rule

By Julie Ingersoll

…points of tea partiers. On his radio show in late 2009, Beck argued with a listener that “African-Americans were deemed three-fifths people because the founders wanted to end slavery and they knew if the South could count the slaves as full individuals, you could never get the control to abolish it.” This was one of Kebreau’s principal points; I heard it at a Tea Party rally supporting Arizona’s immigration law in June, and I heard it from a Jacks…

Ahmadi Muslim Community Doesn’t Speak For All Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…ericans. The Ahmadis are a movement that originated in the 19th century in South Asia. They are generally considered to be the first group to come to the United States in an organized way and were heavily involved in converting African-Americans to Islam in the early part of the 20th century. In Pakistan, they are targeted by certain sectors as being heretics. This history of being a persecuted minority, but also being fairly cosmopolitan, should…

Social Cost of Christianity?

By Lauri Lebo

…e more likely to feel a sense of stigma, highest among those living in the south. For instance, 57 percent of U.S. respondents said they felt they would suffer at least minor social repercussions in the workplace if they came out as an atheist, compared to only 35 percent of respondents in Canada, 24 percent of Australians, 15 percent of residents of United Kingdom, and 12 percent of Western Europeans. The post sparked a great discussion in the co…