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C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…deeply about the delicate balance between the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. Respecting a politician’s freedom of religion doesn’t mean ignoring his religion—it means asking smart, sometimes tough questions about its role in his political life. For a relatively brief period you made the rounds, were interviewed in a number of mainstream media venues. Then, nothing! What happened? Actually, as an author, I was lucky. Spurred b…

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

By Jonathan L. Walton

…preaching in her father’s congregation as a very young girl in Charleston, South Carolina. Her experience in the church was atypical of an African American woman. She had never heard a woman preach, and even sensed what she later described as an “undercurrent of quiet opposition” from her own mother. Yet her father, a trained Presbyterian minister, encouraged his daughter on the piano and in the pulpit. At Talladega College she was the first stude…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…of this fall’s Equality Ride. “We wait to be rejected.” Higgins grew up in South Carolina and now makes her home in Minneapolis, where she’s one of a handful of fulltime staffers with Soulforce Q, the young-adult division of Soulforce. “There is a sort of redemptive suffering in standing here,” she says as a brisk autumn wind reddens her cheeks. “A lot of times students at the places we go aren’t able to be out as gay, so that’s the idea of these…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…he Rev. John Hubers, supervisor of mission programs in the Middle East and South Asia for the Reformed Church in America. David Brog, the executive director of Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel—one of the most prominent Christian Zionist organizations in the United States—taskes umbrage at Hubers’ comment: “To say we’re dehumanizing Israelis and Palestinians with our support for Israel dehumanizes us.” Christian and Jewish leaders i…

“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond

By Sarah Posner

In the middle of October, with the economy in free fall and the McCain-Palin campaign not far behind, Lou Engle, founder of The Call, which organizes stadium-sized fasting and prayer rallies, sent out an urgent e-mail to supporters. “We are in a moment of extraordinary crisis in America,” was his ominous warning. “These elections will shape the future of our nation for decades.” With many Americans wondering whether the global financial system wa…

Updated: Religious People Not Monolithic!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…[Editor’s Note: After this post went up I received an email from Focus on the Family’s newsletter, Citizenlink, telling the story of a woman whose former wife is seeking custody of their daughter, Isabella. Citizenlink…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…craft of great size shall be visible within your skies. It shall be in the south of your hemisphere and it shall scan over many of your states. We give to you the name of Alabama. It has been decided that we shall remain within your atmosphere for the minimum of three of your twenty four hour periods. During this time there will be much commotion upon your earth plane. Your highest authorities will be intruding into ‘our’ atmospherics that surroun…

RDGenerations: Religion in the Academy

By Lucia Hulsether

…: So, how does one teach on US Religion (or any course in religion) in the South? In my experience—and based on stories you have told me, maybe even more-so at the University of Tennessee—classes include quite a few conservative evangelicals who take very particular, even rigid, stances toward the subject. I imagine that it’s a bigger factor in the Bible Belt than in most other places. How do you deal with this? For example, my New Testament class…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…istian Right has been ‘spreading out’ across the states, especially in the South, Midwest, and West. Thus, Christian conservatives have become a staple of politics nearly everywhere.” In short, John McCain’s personal preferences were irrelevant: his route to the presidency was only viable with the help of Christian right leaders he’d all too recently attacked. So, McCain was politically compelled to mend fences, first with Jerry Falwell, then with…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…n eye…We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost… When attempting to sort through the controversy over Wright’s remarks, there seems little reason to linger over the comments about September 11, which do not differ greatly from those offered by a not…