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Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…evangelicalism. Born and raised in the Bible Belt and surrounded by conservative evangelical Protestants, Spears grew up Southern Baptist and spent her childhood performing in Baptist choirs. For her very first stage performance, when she was five years old, she sang “What Child Is This” at her kindergarten graduation. Spears was actually a standard-bearer for evangelicalism, especially evangelical purity culture, about which numerous articles ha…

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

By Mike Greer

…years. I came about the time that folks from Burma began arriving in large numbers and uniting in membership with Crescent Hill, and much of my time in those early years was spent trying to figure out how in the world we might be able to be a unified body that includes people who don’t speak English, who have a completely foreign background and cultural experience. It took a lot of hard work but we reached a place a number of years ago where, whil…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…urrent norms around dissent had been as effectively internalized and as pervasive in the past, whether we’d still have segregation and child labor and… Fantasy, of course, does not take the courage that the real dissent of our past and present takes. It does not take the rule-breaking and risk of young students at a Greensboro lunch counter or many others. Neither does Fred Phelps’ nastiness. And yet, today it feels somewhat better than intruding…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…ers have maintained that same-sex marriage is anathema to both white conservative evangelicals and African Americans. On January 7, GLAAD reported that a new report commissioned by the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund and released by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, found that “exit polls showing high levels of support for Prop. 8 among African-American voters, widely cited in media reports, were exaggerated.” The report, written by two New…

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

…two opposite kinds of thinking meet only to engage in combat. Hadrian is reflecting here on the horribly destructive Second Jewish Revolt against Rome (in 132-135 CE). And the pagan emperor is mystified by the way religion serves as fuel for such conflict rather than as a mediator. And that is part of what has been revealed this week: Partisanship is the new American religion. I encountered a chilling reminder of this just one month ago in Atlanta…

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

…rhaps we can nudge the Republican VP-nominee and Mountain Dew defender, JD Vance (whose various birth certificate alterations don’t appear to be of concern to the Right), to weigh in on her make-up skills since he’s so precise with his eyeliner. Look, I’m not telling you to vote for a Black woman or an orange person (whose running mate may want to pick up some better internet-search skills using the incognito option). Since I’m probably not mature…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…g District of Western China, where officials have reportedly bulldozed over 800 mosques. Authorities have also detained hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in re-education camps. The scale of the suffering is difficult to imagine. In fairness, there’s been a lot of good reporting about the plight of the Uighurs. And yet I believe the outpouring of emotion for more recognizable places—especially Notre Dame—is instructive. Samuel Johnson defined sympat…

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

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ayers’ time and dime. We’ve seen plenty of divisive prayers from the conservative side. Often deliberately so, wielding prayer like a cudgel. The Pennsylvania legislator’s Jesus-laden, jaw-dropping prayer uttered to intimidate the state’s first female Muslim legislator. A preacher echoed this prayer, telling the Virginia House of Delegates that “every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.” The Georgia House suffered throu…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma There are not many bright spots that conservative evangelical Christians can glean from the Ted Haggard affair. The former pastor of Colorado Springs’ New Life Church, and the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals who had a direct line to President Bush’s White House was forced out of both positions when it was revealed that he was enmeshed with drugs and a gay prostitute. Haggard has since been se…