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Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…s. “Evangelicals are so convinced that they have the absolute truth,” Bethany Grace argues, “that denying a child’s agency (even a grown child’s) or violating their bodily autonomy becomes easy for them to justify.” Spears has never identified as an #exvangelical and #FreeBritney is not about religion. But she is a former evangelical who has pushed against her controlling family, who has suffered immensely at the hands of evangelicals, and who is…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…the seminary in the early 1990s Crescent Hill was the spiritual home for many students, staff, and distinguished professors. Today the 800-member church is a diverse community of faith including people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views. Refugees and immigrants compose roughly one-third of the congregation. The church is heavily invested in a wide array of social ministries in the Commonwealth, the U.S., and…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…, was killed in Afghanistan on June 4, 2011. Her body arrived at Rochester NY Airport on June 13, and her funeral is coming up on Saturday morning, June 18. Cohocton is not alone in this, as it joins the many other small towns and cities in the United States and beyond that mourn the consequences of militarism and war. Nor is the town alone as it is forced to join other places where sexuality is contested in contemporary American culture in overt…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…e exposed and called to account.” The List: While he may not win an Oscar anytime soon, Jack Black rocked the Internet as Jesus Christ in “Prop 8 The Musical.” For his performance, “Jack Black Musical Video” comes in at #10 on the CADC list. Originally posted in December at FunnyorDie.com, the video (go here and scroll down) has been viewed more than 3,400,000 times. (For YouTube stat freaks, in the Nonprofits & Activism category for December, the…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

I have had the honor of working extensively with the Rev. Dr. William Barber II, beginning when he keynoted the launch of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice in November 2013. It has been a fruitful partnership in all respects. In his new book, Rev. Barber reminds us of the importance of education and history in the long struggle for justice and righteousness. Referring to how those in power kept the poor divided in histor…

Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…right away. The economy lost 600,0000 jobs in the last month alone, “as many jobs as exist in the entire state of Maine.” More to the point, the party that stood watch over the last eight years and gave us this imploding economy is in no position to lecture us about it now. It is a sad day for a presidency that began so optimistically just three weeks ago, amidst a joyous sense of the possibilities for change. The new President himself took a mor…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…nternational policies, she was on the receiving end of some horrific misogyny. As a Black woman Harris will receive all that misogyny—but with additional adjectives. Misogynoir is basically sexism with a side helping of anti-Black racism aimed at Black women. Unlike getting something good for your soul like an extra side order of curly fries with your Popeye’s Chicken family box special, a side helping of misogynoir is very particular and exceedin…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…empathy”—as an “act of the imagination.” To put it less elegantly, when trying to understand the pain of others, we need to imagine ourselves in their shoes. And it’s simply human nature for us to be more touched by the familiar. I don’t have any simple answers. But I can say that unless we fight against that impulse, we’re consigning the weakest of the world—which often are members of minority religions—to massive suffering, to ethnic cleansing,…

Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

By Andrew L. Seidel

…st what the Founders feared, and just what our Constitution is meant to prevent—he divided the country along religious lines. Prayer at legislative sessions, which could easily be done by the truly pious legislators without a government microphone and resources, divides, cleaves, and sunders citizens along religious lines while pretending to unite us all. Any politician who truly wants to unite the country and wants to be inclusive of all citizens…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ee, and all substantive programs are free. The good news for the AFA? So many sponsors, so many boycott targets! Sponsors included a host of gay organizations and media groups as well as Comcast, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Chase, Bank of America, and GlaxoSmithKline. More information here. Wicca Pedia: According to The Barna Group, a polling and research organization that “provides leadership and unique, strategic information and resources that help…