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The Jarring Ugliness of Beauty Queen Carrie Prejean

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…red for her faithfulness, despite her past sins. Just as philanderers like South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford will claim King David as their political mascot, I think Prejean could go a long way to reviving the Rahab story, showing herself to be a deeply flawed woman of faith. Prejean also complained bitterly that there is a double standard at play against conservative women like herself and former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Pa…

Mark O. Hatfield: A Personal Remembrance

By Randall Balmer

…al years later, Hatfield teamed with Democratic senator George McGovern of South Dakota to draft the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment to End the War in Vietnam. Hatfield’s liberal positions earned him the enmity of many politically-conservative evangelicals. But he remained resolute in his convictions, pushing for nuclear disarmament, environmental protection, aid for the poor and federal funding for medical research. I encountered Hatfield for the fir…

From Licking Floors to Praying for an Inept Government, Churches React to C-19

By Daniel Schultz

…tions can have a dramatic effect on how coronavirus spreads or doesn’t, as South Korea found out the hard way. While many aren’t meeting at all or are streaming services, some churches that do meet feel like they need to support those who need it, in worship or otherwise. My mother’s congregation in Madison, Wisconsin elected to close for a week or two, but also voted to continue to allow Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs to cont…

Perry’s Challenge to Bachmann for Religious Right Vote

By Sarah Posner

…ndicated that he’s going to announce his intention to run for president—in South Carolina, as the big Republican event, the Ames straw poll, is taking place in Iowa. Surely he wants to suck all the air out of Michele Bachmann’s air-conditioned tent. With Bachmann generating the most excitement among voters in Iowa, Perry appears to be her primary rival for the coveted conservative Christian vote. And that raises the question: aside from his prayer…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…relationship with medical schools in two countries, and we were somewhere south of broke. But we slogged along and clung to each other and bitched each other out and slogged some more and some how all emerged with lasting relationships, advanced degrees, and upper-middle class incomes. Bart became an obstetrician/gynecologist—because, truth told, sick people really upset him. Also truth told, he did not perform abortions out of any political pass…

A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…aracters (the trickster Br’er Rabbit, for example) came directly from West African folkloric traditions. As H.L. Mencken was the first white writer to observe, Joel Chandler Harris basically stole a big chunk of African American oral tradition, popularized it, and got rich from it once he began publishing his tales in The Atlanta Constitution in 1876. Like Cody, Harris thought of himself as an entertainer, not as a paladin of white supremacist ide…

Romney’s Religion of Happiness vs. Gingrich’s Religion of Grievance

By Sarah Posner

…of the Republican electorate (38%) in Florida is virtually the reverse of South Carolina, where they comprised 65% of voters, and which is why, in part, Romney is headed toward victory here tomorrow. At the Romney rally, the verdict on Gingrich was mixed. Liz Reiman, a Romney voter from Jacksonville, said she had been “intrigued” with Gingrich, whom she called “stunning and sometimes disturbing.” But, she concluded, he was “too volatile.” Catheri…

As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?

By John Stoehr

…he 30 Rock building to spy on Nazi activities worldwide, but especially in South America where they could get the raw materials a war machine needs to be effective. Without recapping the story of WWII, FDR was reelected, despite Nazi groups funneling money into Charles Lindbergh’s campaign. FDR started providing aid to Britain and preparing for war against fascism. Thus, the paradigm shift started to turn on the events of 1940. President Biden pin…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…’s service as vice president for litigation, and as a board member, of the Indiana branch of the ACLU? Or maybe Hamilton’s extraordinary seven-year-long series of rulings obstructing Indiana’s implementation of its law providing for informed consent on abortion?… Or perhaps Hamilton’s inventive invocation of substantive due process to suppress evidence of a criminal defendant’s possession of cocaine, a ruling that, alas, was unanimously reversed b…

MLK’s SCLC Threatens Leader Who Joins LGBT Civil Rights Protest

By Jonathan L. Walton

…tion was to build upon and move beyond the MIA’s successful bus boycott by promoting nonviolent mass resistance as a means of disrupting systems of segregation throughout the South. Though evangelical in origin (its motto was “to redeem the soul of America!”) the organization was inclusive in practice. Persons were welcome regardless of race, religion or even sexual orientation; i.e., Stanley Levinson (Jewish), Ella Baker (religiously indifferent)…