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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…

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…

‘Id Mubarak and Many Happy Returns!

By Amina Wadud

…u) with health and peace.” I think in the United States, we take ours from South Asia and just say ‘Id Mubarak, “blessed ‘Id,” with the response, ‘Id Karim, “noble or generous ‘Id.” And everywhere there is food. So much food you can see why such a rigorous fast does not produce the world’s thinnest people: they’d eat it all back during the three-day celebration. And that’s what is should be: three days of celebration. The part that puts the ‘holy’…

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…

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

By Sarah Posner

…the clock, which he called “powerful and life-changing.” (Antoine, who is African American, would not tell me who he was voting for but said he could not vote for a candidate who favored abortion rights.) IHOP “stirs young people,” Antoine told me, and “keeps them continuously alert about the end-times. So they can’t be distracted because they’re continuously being bombarded by the preaching of the end-times so it’s continuously on their heart an…

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…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…ans-man who came out of the closet a week before he graduated from another Southern Baptist college in Missouri, and a 22-year-old aspiring minister from Philadelphia who quotes Proverbs, declares his love for God—and laments the recent breakup of his relationship with a boyfriend. They are all members or supporters of Soulforce, an organization that aims to change the hearts of those who use religion to justify discrimination against sexual minor…

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

By Jonathan L. Walton

…stication of the black spoken word tradition that extends back to the West African griot. And, more importantly, she helped to open the minds (and improve the preaching) of scores of male clergy who claimed the pulpit as their gendered birthright. Whether in Oakland, Atlanta or Russia she reached beyond the African American community and across gender lines to teach what W.E.B. DuBois suggested over a hundred years ago, “The black preacher is the…

RD10Q: Spiritual Survival for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…freaked. I called my editor in a panic and told her there’s no way I could promote a book that made me so uncomfortable just to look at it. I told her it looked like gay erotica. She disagreed, saying she thought it was a warm and inviting cover. “But, see, you live in San Francisco,” I told her. “I live in South Carolina. In San Fran that may be warm and inviting, here, that’s called porn.” The only good thing was that the font had changed to wha…

For Sale to the Highest Bidder: The Trail of Tammy’s Tears

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ocially influential. The Bakkers even built a theme park, Heritage USA, in South Carolina that not only became one of the premier vacation spots in the nation, it also provided America with the image of the late Jerry Falwell sliding down a water slide while wearing his Sunday best. Unfortunately for their many devoted viewers, the Bakkers’ media reign came to an end in exactly a decade. In 1987 revelations of financial misappropriation and illici…