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Where Did White Evangelicalism’s Hatred of Critical Race Theory Really Begin?

By Andre E. Johnson

…: We deny that Christian belief, character, or conduct can be dictated by any other authority, and we deny that the postmodern ideologies derived from intersectionality, radical feminism, and critical race theory are consistent with biblical teaching. We further deny that competency to teach on any biblical issue comes from any qualification for spiritual people other than clear understanding and simple communication of what is revealed in scriptu…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…with Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, penning an entire booklet designed to refute the book’s arguments before it even hit the shelves. Vines is using his newfound fame to start what he calls The Reformation Project, an initiative to change the church from the grassroots up. Religion Dispatches’ Candace Chellew-Hodge spoke with Vines recently about his book. Why did you write this book? I…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…resident of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote last week about this growing crisis: The real scandal is the fact that evangelical Protestants divorce at rates at least as high as the rest of the public. Needless to say, this creates a significant credibility crisis when evangelicals then rise to speak in defense of marriage. While Mohler is not about to drop his crusade against same-sex marriage and abortion,…

Baptist Professors Attack McLaren’s New Kind of Christianity

By Jonathan L. Walton

…“apostasy” (stop, drop and roll!) with no seeming sense of intellectual irony or epistemic humility was pretty disturbing. Particularly since, according to their own account, the major animating impulse of the book is to redirect evangelical Christianity away from the narcissism of minor doctrinal differences toward the amelioration of human suffering, promoting a pluralist worldview and preserving the environment as stewards of God’s resources. B…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…azine conflating anti-government rioting in Venezuela with street crime in Louisville, Kentucky when you’re all one big happy family who can hash out their differences over the dinner table. Whatever happened to Christians not bearing false witness, by the way? Priests used to crown kings in the name of God. We still do, actually. Except “God” is a set of supposedly universal moral values, which turn out to be less universal than tribal, and the t…

“Soul Freedom” versus “Christian Nation”: Exploring the Legacy of Roger Williams

By Becky Garrison

…not by nationality. He rejected the idea that the state should privilege any single religious voice. At the same time, he was an unabashed sectarian, fighting over theological fine points with anyone who came along including the Quakers. He did not hesitate to disagree with those whose religious views differed from his own, but he was willing for them to be his neighbors. Williams is known for coining the term “soul liberty.” How does this concep…

Yes, It’s Worse To Be Gay in Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…st to admit that the US is far from perfect, and I am ready to criticize many of its policies. I suppose that it is precisely this readiness, this desire many of us have to show that we are open-minded and fair, that represents one key psychological source of the temptation to engage in false equivalence. The fact remains, however, that the distortions resulting from false equivalence can be just as damaging in international comparisons as in dome…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…year plastering every dorm we could with fliers for the Islamic Center at NYU’s first event of the year. We slipped into the dorms we couldn’t get signed into, and posted hundreds of cheap notices printed on 8.5 x 11 paper. We’d invited a prominent imam to speak and ordered a delicious dinner, convinced that the perpetually elastic undergraduate stomach would be the gateway to the soul. The next morning, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon we…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…elease. “We share our lived realities in the hope that they will inspire many people who have been filled with hate from politicians and religious leaders seeking political power and cheap popularity.” She and more than 130 volunteers then distributed the magazine across the country and into some unlikely hands, including to Uganda’s Parliament, president, and other politicians, as well as churches and media outlets. Nabagesera says Bombastic has…

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Anthea Butler

…even have the courtesy to check Trayvon’s phone for his mom and dad’s telephone numbers because it’s just a black criminal’s body to them. While Zimmerman the trigger man slept in his bed, the police ordered a drug and alcohol test for Trayvon’s lifeless body. A black body that was representative of evil against the whiteness of George Zimmerman. I hesitated to write about this story, because there are many good stories about Trayvon and his pare…