Religion Dispatches
…lready heavy with recycled McCain personnel, and he’s quickly addding more South Carolina cred. South Carolina is also an open primary where he can draw in the independents he needs to win. 4. He’s betting this Tea Party thing will wear itself out by 2012. 5. He’d like you to think of him as stately like George Herbert Walker Bush but way cooler. In his ABC interview with George Stephanopolous, Huntsman drew comparisons between his own “proud trad…
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…monism: the perception that Mormons were coming to steal women and corrupt Southern womanhood. After the Civil War especially, Southern manhood was defined in large part through the protection of Southern womanhood. This rationale helped whites in the South justify the lynching of African-Americans. It drove anti-Mormonism as well: not just theological difference, but the fear that they’re coming for our women. That helps me understand the edge I…
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…and] all the anti-God people are.” Despite repeated requests, the group refused to provide details on the amount of money it currently spends in South Sudan, though its 2013 financial report said that in 2012 it had more than $2m of expenses in the nation and raised more than $376m worldwide. The Guardian story reviews the influence American conservative evangelicals and groups like the American Center for Law and Justice s on anti-gay legislation…
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…ted States, the Vietnam War, apartheid, and the brutal military regimes in South America. Graham was also aware that the future of the Christian faith was no longer in America. In the 1970s, the gravity center of Christianity began shifting from the Northern Hemisphere to the South with the explosion of Pentecostalism in Latin America and Africa. Read Anthea Butler’s BILLY GRAHAM AND THE GOSPEL OF AMERICAN NATIONALISTIC CHRISTIANITY So the encount…
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…But while other evangelicals feel tension with the broader culture over religion, Southern evangelical alienation is largely about being Southern. And being Southern is all about race….
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…l visa victory The government’s immigration department has decided to appeal a September court ruling in favor of a woman who had been denied a dependent visa because her spouse is a woman. The announcement sparked complaints from LGBT human rights advocates. …
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…to the Billie Holiday song “Strange Fruit” about Jim Crow lynchings in the South), and it is now a staple of the programmatic calendar. These venues give opportunities for black millennials to craft their own public theology and hear public theology that is directly designed for them. If the numerous think-pieces and essays on Coloring Book—specifically around its samples from Christian contemporary music and black gospel—were any indication, you…
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…hy, you need to know something about geography. In short, they call it the Southern Baptist Convention for a reason. The church is centered in 11 southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. That won’t be a surprise to most Americans, but the extent to which the SBC depends on this “base” might be: since 1950, about 75-80 percent of the total membership has…
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…to revisit” the issue of having the Confederate flag flying at the Statehouse in Columbia. Perhaps? Even after the horrific violence and after the U.S. and South Carolina flags were lowered in mourning the Confederate flag was left flying at its full height. Though we don’t yet know Roof’s religion, other white Christians in American history have committed similar acts of terror—namely under the banner of the Ku Klux Klan and American purity. Mos…
Read More…he founding dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States in 1790, South Carolina is the fifth to succeed from the Church, following the Dioceses of San Joaquin in central California; Fort Worth, Texas; Quincy, Illinois; and Pittsburgh, PA. A pastoral letter from Jefferts Schori to members of the Diocese, however, made clear that The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, as with other dioceses voting to secede, “continues to be a constitue…
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