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Personalities, Politics and Penises: National Baptist Convention Dodged a Bullet

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ulius R. Scruggs to be the next president of the largest religious body of African Americans in the nation. Rev. Scruggs’s victory came as little surprise to those who have been following this year’s presidential race. The Alabama pastor and former convention vice president soundly defeated his opponent 4,076 votes to 924 as expected. Yet persons unfamiliar with this particular body of Baptists may just be amazed to discover that Rev. Scruggs’ def…

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American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…hallenging traditional Church leaders as legitimate representatives of the African American community. Will new cleavages appear within evangelicalism (or deepen within the Black Church), pitting these factions against each other? Or, will those groups that are not invested in either the evangelical industrial complex, or remaining culture war issues like LGBT rights, move to create alternative institutions that better serve their needs? 3. The Fr…

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Beck Plus God Does Not Equal X

By Anthea Butler

…jacked into the Glenn Beck white civil rights/Tea Party movement. If King knew how the end of his “I Have A Dream Speech” would be appropriated, especially by Beck, I think he would have had a stroke. If that wasn’t bad enough, the Rev. Alveda King, Dr. King’s niece, also spoke at the Restoring Honor rally, miming the black church and shouting hallelujahs in a nice Southern accent. She even quoted from the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to support…

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Michael Jackson, Perfect “God” for the Media Age

By Kathryn Lofton

…k leaders, the increase in black CEOs, and the multiplication of roles for African Americans in media and popular culture), MJ seemed to make himself the image of an oppressor that was no longer so obviously menacing. Many scholars will, I imagine, frame MJ’s racial transformation as a rebuke, a morphing protest to any post-’60s liberal satisfaction. Just like eating disorders among adolescent women suggest to some the pervasive failure of feminis…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…piligrims while they are in Rome. The pilgrimage will be chronicled on the New Ways Ministry’s blog. Pope Francis made news this week by calling couples who choose not to have children “selfish.” Mormon Church: Pro-LGBT Advocate Excommunicated John Dehlin, a supporter of marriage equality and the host of the “Mormon Stories” podcast was excommunicated following a disciplinary hearing on Sunday. The conflict between Dehlin and church leadership has…

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What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…idn’t. But he has signed laws requiring abortion waiting periods, imposing new building codes on clinics in an attempt to shut them down (which the Supreme Court found illegal in Texas), and just recently, requiring “burials” for aborted fetuses that one abortion activist told me could add $2,000 to the cost of a $400 abortion. It was left for Kaine to argue the “faith by example” position of Bush: That’s what we ought to be doing in public life:…

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Transphobic and Anti-Abortion Policies are a Direct Threat to My Religious Freedom

By Susan Frederick-Gray

…IA+ neighbors or supporting reproductive justice, these should be taken as central teachings of our faith. So when we see discriminatory movements across the country to define lifesaving, gender-affirming care for trans youth as “child abuse” or to essentially ban access to reproductive care, we also know that they’re violations of deeply-held UU religious beliefs. Anti-trans laws infringe on our right to support beloved members of our congregatio…

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The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…e a number of pretty hyperbolic statements about the Beatles ushering in a new religious sensibility—a new way of being for young people. When the four came under the tutelage of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, it confirmed the worries of many. Eventually, after a few decades of desperately fighting rock ‘n’ roll, evangelicals moved to appropriate it for themselves. What was the turning point? I make the case that one important turning point—among a se…

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At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

…tic process. When I went into the voting booth as a single-issue voter, I knew my mission was to vote anti-abortion down the ballot—from president to school board. This meant I didn’t have to engage with any of the other issues facing my country and my community during any given election. I could shut my brain off and go to sleep at night without worrying about immigration policies, funding for child cares, or new initiatives for stem cell researc…

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Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…ence,” isn’t modeled on ancient traditions. It is a descendant of the East-Central European nationalist ideas and movements from the last two centuries. Indeed, under these conditions, during World War II, the Hungarian regime, in a matter of months, delivered nearly 450,000 Jewish Hungarians to Auschwitz, more than half of the Hungarian Jewish population. When amoral Donald Trump unwittingly deployed his various uses of the term human dignity in…

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