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White Conservative Christian America Not Going Down Without a Fight

By Paul Harvey

…s—or comprehend recent phenomena like the rise of the Tea Party or Donald Trump in American politics, the zealous tone of the final battles over gay rights, or the racial tensions that have spiked over the last few years—without understanding that, along with its population, America’s religious and cultural landscape is being fundamentally altered. By this reasoning, the drama of the current GOP platform debate is part of the waning cry of a white…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…t Committee investigating the attacks, he was contacted by someone in the Trump White House during Trump’s speech on Jan 6 who told him to lead a march from the Ellipse to the Capitol building. He has been subpoenaed by the committee, and he now claims that he was trying to stop the riot. Like Jones, Roger Stone was also part of the ‘Stop the Steal’ effort. Although he claims he had no advance knowledge of the attack, he spoke at the Jan 5 rally a…

No, Trump’s Evangelical Support Isn’t Cracking: The ‘Independent’ Jumps the Shark

By Chrissy Stroop

…e pretty much unchanged from the percentage of these groups who voted for Trump in 2016.” While Trump’s favorability among African-Americans has reached as high as 13% on occasion, the figure Geddis invokes shows no diminishing support among Trump’s base. In addition, Geddis writes as if he’s only just become aware of the prosperity gospel, which, if true, would probably be a good reason not to write a piece of commentary around the (demonstrably…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…no doubt benefitted from a divided field. Should the race boil down to a Trump-Cruz faceoff, Cruz would likely win the evangelical vote.) While there’s a lot more to understand still about evangelical support for Trump, there’s no doubt it has occasioned spirited debate and real soul searching in evangelical circles. The anti-Trump evangelical movement has been robust and active for several months now, doing everything it can to undercut Trump’s…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…let’s work on fundamentalism, American militarism, and libertarianism are crucial reads, he can be at his most enjoyable and engaging when he considers quieter, subtler, and more beautiful manifestations of faith as lived experience. Radiant Truths is the only anthology of previous writings on this list, but it demonstrates Sharlet’s keen eye and immaculate religious understanding in his collection of a counter-canon that expresses the full breadt…

The Racial Politics of Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…ion; bringing it full circle to the last chapter which explores the racial politics of death and the so-called moral abyss of non-belief. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? One recent book I’ve read that I really admire is Harriet Washington’s exhaustively researched Medical Apartheid. Washington nails how legacies of scientific racism and white supremacist medical experimentation inform contemporary perspectives…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…nd I have a fundamental disagreement about who God is.” Bass is asking her readers to consider a shift in American Christianity that goes beyond politics and demographics: “I think a conventional God moving off of ‘His’ throne in heaven is much bigger news than the fact that your local Methodist church doesn’t have as many members as it used to have.” I spoke with Bass this August in a café near her home in Alexandria, Virginia. In Christianity Af…

Carson’s Lead Shows Evangelicals Care More About Politics Than Religion

By Sarah Posner

…eptable to have a Muslim president. In the end, we may see the decline of the Carson candidacy without any of this being discussed. (That, indeed, would be a relief.) Trump had his moment; Carly Fiorina had a far shorter moment; now it’s Carson’s moment. But even if he, rather than, say, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, were to win Iowa, there’s little precedent for caucus winners moving on to anything bigger and better. Remember Mike Huckabee and Rick Sa…

The Deadly Politics of (in)Difference Is Killing Trans Women of Color

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…and protection are owned by the ruling class of white folks, we cannot disrupt the dominant narrative that creates those deadly theologies of indifference. Challenging these ruling theologies, what I call supremacist theologies, requires the creation of a counter-theology—one of resistance to indifference. To support such a politics and to actively resist indifference, this counter-theology must be rooted in the act of bridging. As Gloria E. Anza…

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

By Anthea Butler

…afraid. I didn’t want to risk offending people who had not figured out the politics of hair, even if they had deployed it almost as surely as sanctification had been used to cut the wheat from the chaff. Watching Good Hair brought up all of those memories, and more, from the research of my book. The Marriage of Hinduism and Black Hair Care Apart from being a good film, Good Hair has a religious subtext that is important to look at within the conte…