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Denzel’s Profane Preaching: A Religious Movie for the Rest of Us

By Sean S. O'Neil

…ld. But Flight, like most of the other religiously-themed scripts to which Washington agrees to lend his star power, is no Kirk Cameron morality play. As in The Book of Eli, in which Washington played a post-apocalyptic loner who creates a trail of gore during a violent spiritual pursuit of the lone remaining copy of the Bible, the celluloid preaching in Flight is rated R. In addition to the early lingering shots of full-frontal and rear nudity, t…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…s pretty much it. Evangelical leaders themselves didn’t believe the Gallup numbers were right, and [they thought that] the best way to combat those Gallup numbers was to ask Gallup to do another survey. And so in 1978, Christianity Today, a leading periodical for evangelicals, paid Gallup to do a big survey and in addition to just asking the born-again question, they asked questions about belief in the Bible, belief in Jesus, and intent on convert…

Reconsidering “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”: An Interview with Ethicist Eric Reitan

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e theory then becomes something we’re using to blind ourselves. The recent Nashville Statement seems to fit that definition of starting with a theory and not worrying about how it effects the targets of those words. What’s your opinion of this statement? If you’re going to make authoritative pronouncements on matters that tangibly impact the lives of human beings, you have the credibility and authority to do that only if you are paying deep and su…

The Happening and the Gospel of Bruce Springsteen

By Diane Winston

…e on the Bible, the Boss, and the Backwoods Barbie: sin and salvation from Nashville to New Jersey?) The folks behind Church Basement Roadshow do get specific about theology, and since they were good enough to show up at my synagogue Saturday morning (noshing not davening), I wanted to end this update on religion and culture with a mention of their project. Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt,and Mark Scandrette are three leaders of the emergent church moveme…

The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics

By Jesse Curtis

…furrow their brows and wonder how a radicalized political movement has captured their parishioners, the real story is the more enduring influence of white evangelical theology and institutions themselves. Something is wrong at the root. When Southern Baptists gather in Nashville for their annual meeting later this month, this deeper history is unlikely to be on the agenda. Russell Moore’s private anguish revealed that white evangelicals voting fo…

In Speech to Religious Broadcasters William Barr Warns of Secular Tyranny, Promotes Christian Tyranny

By Chrissy Stroop

…including in a speech he delivered Wednesday at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville. NRB is an international evangelical organization whose board members include John Fuller of far-right powerhouse Focus on the Family and Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association, a Southern Poverty Law Center designated anti-LGBT hate group. Featuring predictable dog whistles about “federalism” (i.e., “states’ rights”) and “the corpor…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it,” he told a crowd at a Nashville fundraising event in 2021. Meanwhile, Republicans have cynically used this act of political violence to flood their media systems with disinformation about an alleged surge in violent crime ahead of the midterms—a narrative based not on facts, but to rile up their base with racialized fear-mongering—and to blame the attack on Pelosi on “rising crime rates.” (It do…

Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…the formation of a campus “Sexual Identity Forum,” but Belmont College in Nashville has officially recognized a gay and lesbian student group. The Most Vexed Topic If homosexuality is “the most vexed topic” among religious people, to quote Gomes, then recent responses to homosexuality at Christian schools suggest real social change, as evangelical Christians try to reconcile their growing awareness of gay and lesbian lives with the rigid attitude…