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Protest Greets the Honoring of Rev. H. Eddie Fox at Emory’s Candler School of Theology

By John Blevins

…culty or senior staff are welcomed if they agree to abide by the unwritten rules of the glass closet: feel free to speak about LGBT inclusion as a matter of justice but don’t self-identify or risk losing your position. It creates an environment in which other faculty and staff offer private affirmations behind closed doors but keep their distance when conflict arises. In honoring Eddie Fox, Candler’s leadership gave formal institutional assent to…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…ack Gotham, Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams, and Christopher Hager’s Word by Word. And I really love Fred Moten’s In the Break, which is written in a different style from those I’ve just listed but brilliant and a blast to read. What’s your next book? I have a few projects in the works, including a couple of edited collections of scholarly essays and a big, long-term project on histories of black revolution. But first I’m going to write a bo…

Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth-Century Islamic Poet Conquered America

By Ryann Croken

…ion and completion beyond the divisions of symbols. Rumi points us to this wordless world, where we stand, if only fleetingly, on common ground with one another, where we are not separate, and no word exists—in any language—to say that you are different from me. In 2009, in this new year, as America struggles to find its heart and once again extend it to others, as we tear ourselves apart with metal and language, let’s focus on joining Rumi in his…

What’s a Faith-Healing Congregation to Do When Measles Hits?

By Rob Shryock

…hat you can be cured of almost any ailment by a ritual recitation of God’s word. He claimed in Sunday’s sermon that people could, “take authority over their bodies” by using “words of dominion,” saying that, “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” In context, Pearsons’s sermon comes off as an aggressive reaffirmation of EMIC’s ideology of faith healing in light of all the bad press. George Pearsons himself announced that his sermon had…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…company” and “to walk with.” To be in solidarity means to make another’s struggle for justice, peace, and equality your struggle. People who are exploited, who see their children go to bed hungry and die before their time, cry out for justice and organize in solidarity with each other. As a result, many were killed and imprisoned. During my fifth year I was among the many arrested by the military and I was forced to leave the country. I then turne…

GOP Chair Reince Priebus: “There’s only one sovereign God”

By Daniel Schultz

…o let Brody know it wasn’t like it sounded: “I don’t know if I’ve used the word ‘tolerance,’” Reince Priebus told David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network Monday. “I don’t really care for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it, I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction.” Brody pushed for reassurance that the GOP wasn’t going to give up on its social platform, and got this in response: “Our p…

“Outlaw” Christian writer, Reynolds Price, 1933–2011

By Joanna Brooks

…to racial injustice. It’s accurate, I think, to say that I heard no single word condemning or seriously questioning American, not to mention Southern, racism from the pulpit of my family churches or that of Duke University in my childhood and youth. Nor do I think that any prior member of my family, in the major Protestant churches of North Carolina, can have heard any such word from at least the end of the Civil War till, say, the mid-1960s (and…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…s life as a gift from his friends—companions who continue to help him find words to trust. “Memory pulls us forward,” says Ruth in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, “so prophecy is only brilliant memory.” When I think of his pastoral theology, I recall an image he’s often made use of in his preaching: I think of someone becoming all fire. Isaac ended a sermon in 2010 with a fourth-century story of two monks in the Egyptian desert—a crazy story ab…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…inism’s overall impact in the late 19th century pales in comparison to the runaway impact of Russell Conway’s “acres of diamonds” preaching. He demonstrates in a similar way how the postwar flowering of a potent culture of anti-union conservatism among Southern California’s evangelical and parachurch movements was entirely self-created and not simply the result of solicitation or manipulation by that era’s business leaders. Say it again: religion…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…reakdown of decorum and decency” fomented by, in Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s words, that “unruly mob” who thwarted passage of SB5. And yes, the unruly were rallying once again. Orange of every shade—the official color of pro-choice activists in the debate—flooded the south steps of the Capitol. Texas Senators and Representatives, including Kirk Watson, Leticia Van de Putte, Senfronia Thompson, and, of course, Wendy Davis, offered stirring speeches;…