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Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…in hilly industrial Pittsburgh at the turn of the century, and yet for a decade she made her home in Shadyside and the then-fashionable East Liberty neighborhood. Though a Virginian by birth and a Nebraskan by choice, in 1896 Cather moved to the Steel City to write for Home Monthly. An Alternative History of Pittsburgh Ed Simon Belt Publishing 2021 Supplementing her income by teaching high school English, Cather would publish her first fiction in…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…women’s submission and against divorce, women and girls will remain in a precarious position regarding how and whether to stand up to men’s abuse of power. Litton undoubtedly represents a softer, more urbane proponent of male headship than the likes of Paige Patterson, Mike Stone, and other SBC stalwarts, but his underlying theology remains the same. Any denomination that puts pressure on women and girls to identify how to be better “helpers” to m…

In Just 10 Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling to America’s Latest Problem — The Inverse of the Mormon Story

By Jake Johnson

…ant not being white. And, in twentieth-century America, the musical stage became one of the more important spaces where Mormonism’s racialized identity was litigated in the court of public opinion. Operettas and vaudevilles marked Mormons the villains, often linked socially and racially with Muslims and other social pariahs at the time associated with China and Africa. It wasn’t until the middle of the twentieth century that Mormonism put forward…

Please Stop Using Islam to Critique the Abortion Ban: It Only Excuses the Very Christian, Very White Roots of Anti-Choice Movements

By Sajida Jalalzai

…ansformed into a full human being. A common opinion was that a fetus only became ensouled (and therefore fully human) at 120 days into pregnancy. Opinions on the permissibility of termination prior to this period differed. As scholar Sa’diyya Shaikh explains, some jurists prohibited abortion, some categorized abortion as a “discouraged” act, some viewed abortion as conditionally permissible, and others deemed it unconditionally permissible. Even a…

With the End of ‘Roe’ the Verdict is in: The Supreme Court Majority is Christian Nationalist

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ity is persecution. A full-time pastor in Santa Clara challenged the rule because studying the Bible is more important than other people’s lives. He’d been meeting once a week with 8-10 people for an in-home bible study. A woman who has hosted a rotating bible study with six couples every two weeks also challenged the rule. They claimed the rule violated their “religious freedom” because it hampered their Bible study. There was no burden on their…

The Evangelical Abortion Myth: An Excerpt from ‘Bad Faith’

By Randall Balmer

…ly after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person,” one of the most famous fundamentalists of the twentieth century declared, “and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.” Baptists, in particular, applauded the Roe decision as an appropriate articulation of the line of division between church and state, between personal moralit…

A New Book Argues That This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture

By Seth Dowland

…rich man to sell all that he has and give it to the poor. The rich man dejectedly walks away, unwilling to comply. Jesus tells his disciples—in words many Christians can recite by heart—“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family Sophie Bjork-James Rutgers U. Press March, 2021 A literal reading of this p…

Latest Diatribe on Francis and Latin Mass in the Times Launders the History — and Troubling Elements — of the ‘Tradition’

By Matthew Gabriele

…Second, the priest fac*]}*ed away from the congregation during the Latin Mass because the congregation was (and remains, honestly) irrelevant to its celebration. Regular Sunday attendance was never required, or even recommended, for the congregation for much of Christian history, until well into the Protestant Reformation—about the same time seating was introduced to churches themselves. The architecture of Catholic churches built before modernity emp…

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

By Christopher Douglas

…ter the Second World War, he notes, and denominational publishing thrived because “a denomination could double as a distribution network.” Silliman invites us to think about evangelical identity as a result of market forces, in which, following the modernist-fundamentalist controversy, publishers discovered the potential for a “transdenominational” market. This new market came with different incentives, of course: fewer sales for denomination-spec…

Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’

By Andrew L. Seidel

…t masks as a public health measure violate the school’s religious freedom because masks cover up the image of God—the theology is stretched pretty thin to reach a preferred political stance. The God of the Bible commands Abraham to “take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and . . . offer him there as a burnt offering,” as a test of Abraham’s obedience. Abe agrees to murder his own son because he believes his personal god asked. An angel…