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The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween “Hell Houses”

By Lucia Hulsether

…age boy waiting in line behind me at the Tribulation Trail in Stockbridge, Georgia. His mother brushed off the question: “It’s only scary if you don’t accept Jesus.” But at Tribulation Trail fear was a theme from beginning to end. And if it wasn’t a traumatic experience for this child, it probably should have been. For many right-wing evangelical Christians, Halloween season is defined not by haunted houses, but by hell houses. Why scare people wi…

Neighborhood sign reads: Stop Teaching Critical Race Theory To Our Kids.

Uncovering the (White) Christian Roots of Slavery, Native American Genocide, and Ongoing Efforts to Erase History

By Bradley Onishi

…ell, we got this land in the 1820s via this land lottery that the state of Georgia was performing. And then, you know, we set up a shop there. It was on my mother’s side of the family. There was evidence [among them] of people who were not the kind of wealthy planter class. But, they still enslaved other people, even as a kind of lower class subsistence farmer. But what I didn’t ever push back on was where did that land come from that was suddenly…

Will Hate Crime Laws Redeem Us All?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…exual, or transgender, understands that there is Atlanta and then there is Georgia. In Atlanta, especially in places like Midtown, walking around holding your partner’s hand was relatively safe. You may get someone making a hateful comment as they drive by, but by and large, no one gave you a second glance. Where my partner and I lived however was not Midtown Atlanta, even though it was the hamlet made famous in the film adaptation of Fannie Flagg…

How (Not) to React to Anti-Mormon Sentiment in the South

By Joanna Brooks

…hool has a say. Most recently, it was State Representative Judy Manning of Georgia who told the Marietta Daily Journal last week that “I think Mitt Romney is a nice man, but I’m afraid of his Mormon faith. It’s better than a Muslim. Of course, every time you look at the TV these days you find an ad on there telling us how normal they are. So why do they have to put ads on the the TV just to convince us that they’re normal if they are normal?… If t…

Caught in a Fever Dream of Originalism, Can SCOTUS Majority Learn the Lessons of Early America Before it’s Too Late?

By J.L. Tomlin and Thomas Lecaque

…coming all year. Kandiss Taylor, the failed GOP gubernatorial candidate in Georgia best known for her “Jesus, Guns, Babies” campaign bus whose statements were relentlessly mocked and dismissed, declared at a campaign event in March: “We’re gonna do a political rally and we’re gonna honor Jesus. They’re not gonna tell us ‘separation of church and state.’ We are the church! We run this state!” Now, Taylor lost, and lost badly, which made it easy to…

Theologians Claim Death Row Inmate as One of Their Own

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…—and spurred self-reflection among those of us who do it. Gissendaner is a Georgia woman who was sentenced to death in 1998 for conspiring to murder her husband. She was scheduled to be executed in late February, but her execution was postponed because of bad weather. It was postponed again in early March because the lethal injection drugs appeared cloudy. While in prison, Ms. Gissendaner enrolled in a theological studies program for prisoners, wh…

Young Male Congregants Sue Televangelist Eddie Long, Alleging Sexual Coercion

By Sarah Posner

…elevangelist Eddie Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, charge that as teenagers and participants in the church-sponsored Longfellows Church Academy, Long coerced them into sexual relationships with him. Long, the leader of the 25,000-member church and a prominent figure in both televangelism and politics, and in particular in anti-gay activism and “reparative therapy” for gays and lesbians, denied the allegations throu…

The Gospel Gestalt: From Joyful Noise to Whitney Houston

By Douglas Harrison

…flict through their fight over the future of gospel music in the Pacashau, Georgia Sacred Divinity Choir, which, in addition to having the most gifted singers and kick-ass band of any rural church I’ve ever been in or heard of, is a place of astonishingly peaceful integration of blacks, whites, Asians, and Hispanics at various socioeconomic levels. Kumbaya. Is Post-Racial Possible? It’s easy to ding the film for simultaneously indulging in a prolo…

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…nk of Steve Munsey, an Indiana prosperity preacher I watched in a Decatur, Georgia television studio in 2007, pleading for audience members and viewers to give their money to the Trinity Broadcasting Network. As it turns out, the story is about Munsey’s church, Family Christian Center, which claims to have a weekly attendance of 15,000, making it one of the largest churches in the country. According to an investigation by the NWITimes.com, a paper…

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

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation Benjamin P. Fagan University of Georgia Press June 2016 Initially, though, this was going to be a book about the ways in which black newspapers theorized and enacted American national identity. But as I read and reread the pages of Freedom’s Journal, the Colored American, the North Star, the Provincial Freeman, and the Weekly Anglo-African, I couldn’t help but notice the overwhelming presence of scriptura…