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Message to Anti-Gay Pastors: Double Down

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ound and take it away. “What that means is that if the Christian people in New York state or in one of the other states that recognize same-sex marriage realize they don’t want it anymore, they can change their law,” La Rue said. That’s a very good point. As we celebrate the victories from the Supreme Court this past week, we also must remember that all progress is subject to regress. We can never rest on our laurels and must be vigilant to defend…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…ack Gotham, Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams, and Christopher Hager’s Word by Word. And I really love Fred Moten’s In the Break, which is written in a different style from those I’ve just listed but brilliant and a blast to read. What’s your next book? I have a few projects in the works, including a couple of edited collections of scholarly essays and a big, long-term project on histories of black revolution. But first I’m going to write a bo…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…finition. But I am adamantly pro authentic, historic marriage. And God’s Word on the subject, along with an indescribably spectacular 42 years with Carol, caused me to be so intensely pro (natural) marriage. I was once asked by a secular news reporter, “Has your love for Carol and her cancer battle impacted your fight for marriage.” “Yes,” I responded. Why? Because I saw the wonder of covenantal one man-one woman marriage. I saw the sheer deli…

Remembering Gil Scott-Heron

By Mark Hulsether

…of social justice; and they pioneered some of the forms of blending spoken word, rhythm, and music that later took the world by storm as hip-hop music. Later, during an era of music videos and mainstream commercial rap, less and less that Scott-Heron produced made the transition to a mainstream lingua franca or commercial success. For a long stretch between the mid 1980s and 2010 he released only one record, and he battled drug problems. In 2005,…

SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…I believe that the Bible is the inerrant and infallible verbally inspired Word of God. I believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the great news that any sinner who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved.” A pastor who instructs a wife to submit to her abusive husband—as Patterson did—is therefore not truly following complementarian theology. Any abuse justified by complementarianism, in Mohler’s eyes, is not true complementarianism an…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…e of Technology, says, “It’s all out of the creationist playbook.” The New York Times raised the connection in a March 3 article “Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets.” But just how much do anti-evolutionists and global warming deniers have in common? There is one clear connection: just as there is virtually no debate in the scientific community regarding the validity of evolution, there is also little disagreement among scientists actively studying…

Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t to each other. It made you tingle in places that you didn’t yet know the words for—but you knew enough religion to know that the sensation was the devil’s pitchfork poking you from the bowels of hell. Certainly not every Christian kid got the memo that the body and sex were irredeemable. But for most of us, and those who still need convincing, there has been a proliferation of websites aimed at helping Christians enjoy godly sex. Some, such as I…

Whatever Happens with ‘Roe’ It’ll Be The Consequence of Six Conservative Justices’ Belief in Authoritarian Lies

By John Stoehr

…w that, in effect, creates a market for abortion vigilantism. Even so, the new law hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves. As Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern said today, the United States Supreme Court has just two days to decide Roe’s fate and barely anyone in the Washington press corps has bothered to take notice. While I yield to no one in my zest for criticizing members of the press corps, I think there’s a good reason fo…

What is ‘The Square’ that Beat Mubarak?

By H.A. Hellyer

…not choose despair over commitment or cowardice over bravery. I’ve been struck so many times over the last few weeks how well-behaved the people of the Square have been—whether its been the young men and women searching those who came into Tahrir, the youth manning the check-points in the neighborhoods, or the many others that could have taken advantage of the uncertainty of the situation, but didn’t. The Square has redefined what the word ‘revol…

When the Science Guy Misses the Politics

By Sarah Posner

…he United States, of which Ham is a part, whose participants believe every word in the Bible is God’s infallible word, and should undergird every government action (including decisions about what to teach in public school science class). From the accounts that I’ve read, including Schulson’s, it seems that Nye came equipped with his impressive ability to explain science, but a lack of orientation about Ham’s religious and political drive. Schulson…