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Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…n a moral and ethical reimaging of the social and political systems of the day. But his speeches at rallies and essays written for publication were much more inclined to draw a bead on the actors in the stage-play of American racism. Because King was a black preacher from the South, the “preaching” moment as it is understood had an elasticity that covered more than just the pulpit on Sunday morning. Many black preachers followed suit,“calling out”…

Passover with Mohammed: A Jewish Journalist in Yemen

By Sam Kestenbaum

…ut already has a thick goatee. When I tell him I’m a Jew he takes out his iPhone and wants to play me a song. Hebrew lettering appears on the bottom of the screen and a yarmulke-clad singer stands on a stage, microphone in hand. When he begins singing, in Arabic, Ahmed knows every word. He sings about chewing qat, about falling in love. “Most of the Jews here went to Israel, but they stayed Yemeni—listen to his accent! He’s a perfect Sana’ani. He…

Man Behind Willie Horton Ad Is Out to Save America from the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…iage equality opponents and supporters) live with those consequences every day. But it’s worth remembering that while Mormons (who make up 2% of the California population) may have given 50 – 70% of the money and walked the precincts in some California communities, it was millions upon millions of homophobic non-Mormon Californians of all faiths and colors who pulled the levers to end marriage equality in the Golden State. If Karger thinks he can…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…ve near Dallas, Texas, you can attend Generals International’s Reformation Day celebration and pray for a “fresh start” for America, just in time for the elections. Reformation Day features Cindy Jacobs and Dutch Sheets, self-proclaimed apostles associated with the dominionist New Apostolic Reformation. Jacobs warns that President Obama is bringing God’s wrath in the form of natural disasters. And earlier this year Sheets railed against wimpy Chri…

Obama Recognizes Gay Dads

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bera believes it’s immoral for kids to see their gay dads go to work every day, take out the trash, and instruct their children to clean their rooms and make their beds. What horrible fathers! There is not a shred of proof that gay men are worse fathers than straight men. In fact, a recent study, quoted in the Advocate, showed that “gay fathers were more likely to scale back their careers in order to care for their children. Another difference was…

Addressing the Culture War Without Touching the Culture War

By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

…called for an all-out war against the “secular humanist” ideologies of the day. The clash of these titanic forces by the late 1970s, observes Marsden, led to the culture wars that remain with us to this day. Despite being driven by the hope of overcoming the impasse created by the culture wars, Marsden’s last chapter, “Toward a More Inclusive Pluralism,” fails to offer anything like a public philosophy for how to better facilitate secular and reli…

Special Coverage: Dispatches From Pray Vote Stand 2022

By PRA Staff

…me to Defend our Children Outside of the Womb’: Pray Vote Stand Connects Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Messages ‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3 DeSantis is a No-Show, the Right’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ and Final Thoughts on Pray Vote Stand…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…hedules. They’ve demanded a halt to such actions by November 23, “Black Friday,” the biggest shopping day of the year. If the company doesn’t move to meet their demands by then, the workers and their allies say there will be more strikes, sit-ins, rallies, and other actions across the country. Wal-Mart’s reputation as a Christian company has been one of the reasons the retail giant has been notoriously hard to organize. The company embedded itsel…

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…’s teachings on corporal punishment are virtually unchanged since Tomczak’ days as pastor. They continue to promote evangelical parenting manuals like Ted Tripp’s controversial⁠ Shepherding a Child’s Heart, which has sparked controversy over its endorsement of spankings for babies as young as eight months old. Application of this teaching can lead to kids being spanked multiple times a day (far more often than I was, as the daughter of very strict…

Ironies & Bright Spots for Gays in the Christian College World

By L Marston

…t a faculty member (read Scoutmaster) cannot. “One day you’re in; the next day, you’re out,” to use Heidi Klum’s ominous phrase on Project Runway. The controversy receiving the most attention this fall occurred at Azusa Pacific University in California, a Christian university with an undergraduate enrollment of 5500. In September, a faculty member who had been in the theology department for 15 years came out as transgender, to be known as H. Adam…