Religion Dispatches
…k the city of Atlanta does that? Page: Atlanta used to bill itself as the “City too busy to hate.” Lefever: Maybe it should be the “City too busy to remember.” We can see this physically, where we tear down building after building here. In terms of Civil Rights history, unfortunately, people know Dr. King—and that’s what they remember. What we tried to do in the book was to make this more than a King movement. Michael, since you are an Atlanta nat…
Read More…an-American. But as anyone familiar with Southern politics can tell you, a city of Southern Democrats is not necessarily a city of social liberals. And, in light of perceptions about a lack of African-American support for gay rights, that should be especially true of support for gay rights in Chattanooga. I grew up in Chattanooga, leaving for college in 2008. As a kid, I didn’t know a single adult who was out—although I certainly knew plenty of p…
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…e large-scale organizations that successfully planted churches in multiple numbers of New York City’s public schools, and the numbers grew quickly. During the 2010-2011 school year, the Department of Education said 160 congregations were granted permits for worship services. The new churches valued not just the free real estate, but also the proximity to children and families, and the credibility provided by their new physical setting. Owing to th…
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…ttends Restore Community Church, a non-denominational Protestant church in Kansas City, Missouri, reported that fellow churchgoers took the change in stride, understanding their short-term sacrifice in terms of their belief in “loving your neighbor.” His family’s religious routines have moved online, including Sunday worship, Bible study, and youth groups. So many believers have rearranged their practice that the Center for the Study of Religion i…
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…nual “Blogs for Life” conference of pro-life bloggers, with special guests Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback and Washington Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers. The Washington Times’ Duin also reported that Priests for Life sent out an “abortion manifesto,” a fundraising letter about the “54 objectives the abortion industry expects Obama to sign off on during his first 100 days in office.” Using words like “diabolical” to describ…
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…nal conservatism. Take Butker’s speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. It’s been lambasted by both the mainstream media as well as creators on social media for its misogyny and homophobia. Almost all of the media attention has focused on his comments about women, particularly the “diabolical lies” told to them about having career success when they should be most excited about “marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”…
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…k. My original goal was born out of my experience in my church in Wichita, Kansas and the really clear need for more resources that were specifically tailored to a conservative and Evangelical Christian audience. Most of the resources I found were either from a theologically progressive or mainline standpoint but my target audience is different. In some cases, the arguments are pretty similar, but it other cases they need to be different—and it ma…
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…ldren with our tax dollars.” Amy Cawvey, a school board member in Lansing, Kansas, outlines her journey as a mother of three and active parent volunteer who decided to run for school board in fall 2020, outraged by “masking, CRT policies, gender ideology” and other decisions by her local school board. Cawvey and two other conservatives “ran on our values as conservatives, and we won…[and] now we have a majority.” With the imprimatur of the majorit…
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…elps, leader of the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Chu’s odyssey taught him, he explains, to give everyone—even those he may deeply disagree with—the benefit of the doubt. But that very willingness to suspend judgement has invited strong criticisms of his book from both sides of the theological and ideological spectrum. Conservative magazine Christianity Today called the conclusion of his book a “diatribe that under…
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…one such junk-car-blockade outside Dr. George Tiller’s clinic in Wichita, Kansas, a former staffer told Ms. magazine, “It was just chaos. The women would come in and they were traumatized.” Kathy Spillar, Executive Vice President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, says she watched Weslin play a central role in violent attacks against clinics. “Having led defense efforts on many occasions to protect clinics, patients, doctors and medical staff a…
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