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To Pray or to Prey: Racism, Religion and Violence in Charleston

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…l identity of the victims. This was a crime that was deeply and tragically American. In the Jesus movement, the disciples petitioned their leader on the nature and framework of prayer in the context of Roman oppression and Temple-state tyranny (Luke 11:1-13). While Dylann sat this past Wednesday, disturbed no doubt, saturated in the spiritual exchanges of the people of Emanuel, he might have been ruminating on another prayer: “Lord, teach us how t…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ur country. And you have to go.” There couldn’t be clearer evidence of not just derangement, not just a crazed loner, not just an evil assassin, but of the basest, most naked racism. Yet I’m sure there will be the doubting Thomases of what motivated the murderer of Pinckney and his fellow worshipers. There will be those who pin it on evil or mental illness but will balk at naming terrorism or racism. They will be reluctant to talk about South Caro…

Gingrich, Historian, Religionist, Fails Own MLK Weekend Test

By Sarah Posner

…problems would be solved. But when Gingrich appeared at a town hall at the Jones Memorial AME Zion Church in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday, he did not flash his Christianist talking points. Surely he knew what sort of religious angle would inspire here, being a student of American history, an aficianado of its religions (because, after all, he also knows how dangerous Muslims are and what Jews think), an expert on the nation’s essential Ch…

I’m Not Going to Pray For Trump

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ology of resistance in the Trump era means to hold standards of whiteness, American civil religion and American Christianity accountable. The three act as insidious agents affecting cultural zeitgeist so much that black clergy and black gospel singers can unblinkingly offer prayer for a president who receives support from the alt-right, but were vocal critics of Obama surrounding same-sex marriage. To forgive representative powers and principaliti…

“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

By Joshua L. Lazard

…lity to the civil rights movement. With the likes of Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson aligning their activism to include their lesbian, transgendered, bisexual and queer sisters and brothers, that bond is inextricably connected to the furtherance of civil rights for all humanity. This still has not satisfied many African American clergy. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, pastor of Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore famously went on CNN to denounce…

Introducing ‘It’s Your Fault,’ a Series on Blame

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…t our nation’s inadequate gun laws or pervasive racism? Or are we all to blame? Pick just about any issue and you’re likely to find questions of blame at its heart. Is climate change the fault of greedy individuals or a tragedy of the commons? And who’s to blame for the Boston bombing? For rising inequality? For the killing of Jon Snow? As the editors of The Cubit, RD’s science-and-religion portal, blame has been on our minds, for ours is a Golden…

Yes, It Was an Attack on Christianity

By Carlos Wilton

…hurch’s front porch. Four young girls died and 22 other congregants were injured. Only a few of the perpetrators were ever prosecuted. In 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador was celebrating mass in a small chapel attached to a hospital. He had just finished preaching a sermon calling on Salvadoran soldiers to resist their superiors’ orders to engage in state-sponsored terrorism. Moments later, Romero took his place at the center of the al…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…cated such a position to me in a 2010 interview. After Charleston, Pratt blamed Emanuel AME Church’s pastor, the murdered Clementa Pinckney, for the massacre there, saying he should have, as state senator, voted for a measure that would have permitted concealed carry in churches. (White evangelicals who argue against this thinking on guns are waging an admittedly lonely battle.) Similarly, Moore sees himself defending his state from an illegitimat…

The Role of Spirit in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement: A Conversation with Activist and Artist Patrisse Cullors

By Hebah H. Farrag

…, is “a political choice to try to build a new way of fighting.” “It’s not just about changing policies. It’s not just about changing lives. It’s about changing our culture and changing how we fight,” Cullors said. “We can change policies all day but if the fight to get there was full of trauma, was replicating oppressive dynamics, abusive dynamics, then what is the point?” Organizations such as DPN and Generative Somatics have held events focused…

Not All Christians are Terrorists

By Reuven Firestone

…of violent carnage. All religions have vectors of religious thinking that justify extreme violence against people defined as threatening, just as they all have vectors stressing peaceful reconciliation and harmony with adversaries. We can find sacred texts, creedal statements and other authoritative sources in all our traditions to justify both standpoints. It was the late Bishop of Sweden, Krister Stendahl, who noted that believers, like members…