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UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gion News Service commented that “Francis may have exposed the tensions within his own hierarchy over how to engage the gay community,” tensions he says have intensified since the Orlando massacre. The Pope’s remarks were welcomed by some LGBT advocates, and dismissed by others, like Adele Stan, who wrote: So, Pope Francis, keep your apology, I don’t need it. Until you issue a bull condemning attacks on queer folk by your own bishops, until you te…

Show Me the Way of the Hebrews: The Making of an African American Rabbi

By J. Lester Feder

…gion upon them. Dailey held up her father’s Judaic customs as evidence of this history, and also pointed to scriptural prophecy: “If you do not observe to fulfill all the words of this Torah,” it is written in Deuteronomy 28, then the “Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships…. And there, you will seek to be sold to your enemies for slaves and handmaids … [and] serve other deities unknown to you or your forefathers.” The ships were the clincher—…

An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches

By Peter Laarman

…apidly building up an already substantial base of pro-gay religious leadership within American culture should not be underestimated. Chase also doesn’t think that it’s nearly good enough to assume that time will be a sufficient healer of the wounding gay people continue to suffer as a result of clergy timidity and bad religion. “When you hear the stories of exclusion and grudging ‘tolerance’ rather than genuine welcome, you just know that the chur…

A Post-Christian America? Not Quite—Though Devoutly to be Wished

By Peter Laarman

…en the managing editor of this fine journal asked yesterday whether any of his Christian blogheads had anything at all to say about Jon Meacham’s Newsweek piece on the fairly sharp fall-off in the number of Americans self-identifying as Christian (in the newly-released ARIS survey), this bloghead initially demurred. I mean, the amiable and well-informed Meacham said what I would have said: on balance, it’s a good thing that the various and dangero…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…the Authors Guild, were organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship which issued a joint statement against the original Missouri bill. Nevertheless, CPCF crafted a model for the playbook, which it acknowledges is based on Baker’s bill. Baker, an ambitious politician, has introduced other bills based on Project Blitz models, including the Adoption Protection Act (now titled in the playbook, the “Child Welfare Maximization Act”) requiring…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…hold dearest change how they understand their own identity. If academic achievement and the number or type of initials after your name is the most important thing in the world to you, then it will change how you view your own masculinity and femininity. Similarly, if having children matters most to you, then you can only be truly “manly” or “feminine” if you have kids. Is there anything you had to leave out? Historians always want to include ever…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…umental, systematic violence. It intends to silence and to destroy from within. While most of us will never be physically attacked by another human being, all of us know we are targets. A Theology of Anti-Gay Bullying Anti-gay bullying is a theological issue because it has a theological base. I find it difficult to believe that even those among us with a vibrant imagination can muster the creative energy to picture a reality in which anti-gay viol…

More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

By John Wigger

…out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I love the writing style of Lawrence Wright and Hampton Sides. They are both masters at weaving nonfiction into a page-turner. Anything half as good would be fine with me. What’s your next book? I’m not sure yet. Hopefully something surprising that will make a good read….

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…ica’s or Kenya’s richest farmland ended up in white hands because of the “white work ethic” or that Reconstruction’s Black farms found today in white pockets got there fair and square. They will believe that the reason Harriett Tubman’s image will not appear on U.S. currency as planned is that the current administration has concerns about counterfeiting. Or that a president who bought an ad calling for the murder of exonerated Black youth and who,…

How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…eprints and the new additions—also invites a consideration of the ways in which this body of work might have ill prepared us for this moment. In fact, the sense of surprise that continues to confront evangelical zealotry for Trump might be Noll, Marsden, and Bebbington’s greatest legacy, because the absence of discussions about race, gender, or nationalism in the collection’s reprints is made all the more glaring by their abundance in the book’s n…