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This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…erience can be. But most importantly, he reinforces the overarching point that black religion is wherever and does whatever any African American person may be doing at any given moment. One warning: this book should have come with a Parental Advisory sticker affixed! 1. Barbara Diane Savage, Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion, Belknap Press, November, 2008 Many have contested the uncritical use of the term “black church.”…

Trump May Be the End of the World As We Know It—But For Some Evangelicals, That’s Just Fine

By Nelle Smith

…F follows the reliably profitable cosmology-meets-Revelation-meets-tinfoil-hat message that most recently blipped the secular radar screen in the form of John Hagee’s 2013 bestselling book, Four Blood Moons. Clarke’s distribution isn’t huge—around 10,000 on Facebook and 60,000 on YouTube—but he’s on his way. His posts get shares and the comment sections are hopping. To peruse his universe—and against my own better judgment, I did—is to fall down a…

With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization

By Ed Simon

…onal medical opinions, including Will Sommer of The Daily Beast who wrote that she “has often claimed that gynecological problems like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons.” Liberal Twitter understandably snarked, but too much laughing can drown out just how disturbingly prevalent such beliefs are. For example, Reverend Paula White, televangelist and former advisor to Donald Trump’s Faith and…

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…hat this is perhaps 1909 or 1939, but certainly not within our lifetime). Whatever it was that happened, it could not have been entirely pretty: Seems every castle is made of sand The Great Destroyer sleeps in every man Here comes my baby, here comes my man With the silver dagger in his hand. And how can all these stories of barroom girls, morphine addicts, rape victims, murdering ghosts, and lost friends be told with such precise harmonies (with…

Bright-Sided Recalls Mark Twain’s Travails

By Michael A. Elliott

…entirely. As the tirade spreads across the pages of Christian Science, what becomes clear is that his monomania was thoroughly laced with admiration. Twain was no stranger to the desire to make money, but he was notoriously bad at it. In Eddy, he found someone who was able to turn her writing and teaching into considerable amounts of cash, and from his perspective, she showed no signs of slowing down. She had even mastered the art of copyright,…

Capricology: Week 2: The Soul of a Robot

By Salman Hameed

…ofessional life as someone who has government contracts, and I’m not sure that what we saw in the episode fully prepared us for such an abrupt shift in her perceptions and actions. The episode’s opening shots already hint at the relationship between media, memory, and self-perception as we get flickering glimpses of multiple consciousnesses being reborn in the new mechanical body, as we burst from static into images which are memories of Zoe’s lif…

New Resource for LDS Families with Gay Children Links Acceptance and Health

By Joanna Brooks

…since 2005. When we have visited LGBT youth service centers, we’ve found that the model that emerged in the 1970s was to not engage families, or even to position families as adversarial. Some say, “We don’t talk about families. It’s too painful” for the adolescents. We’ve done surveys hat found a dearth of resources and activities for families with LGBT children. But families are changing, and it is increasingly important to serve LGBT young peop…

On National Coming Out Day, Many Still Can’t Afford the Luxury

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tures called “lesbians.” I put the magazine down and said to myself, “So, that’s what I am.” I went to the mirror and tried on my new label. “I am a lezzz-be-yun,” I pronounced the new noun slowly, trying to wrap both my tongue and my mind around this strange word. I hated it. I still hate it. The word lesbian is so … clinical … bloodless … weak. To this day, if I feel I need a label for my sexuality, I still prefer “dyke” for its short, punchy a…

Royal Wedding Ceremony Quite Dated, Hats Notwithstanding

By Mary E. Hunt

…wife.” Every commentator I heard repeated it piously as if it were true. What happened to the husband? Some will argue that it is a matter of translation, but so are a lot of sexist images from the Bible and church history. Now we try to call things by their names. “Husband and wife” is a more accurate description of the reality and something that signifies the equality of the two. Small matter? Yes, only if you are not the wife. Third, and this…

Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History

By Bernard Schweizer

…t in Brazil. According to AP‘s Diane Jeantet, the Court’s president wrote that “It is not to be assumed that a humorous satire has the magic power to undermine the values of the Christian faith, whose existence goes back more than two thousand years.” Amen. There is a strong déjà-vu quality to the protests that have recently erupted around the Brazilian comedy troupe Porta dos Fundos’s presentation of Christ as a gay man. In Netflix’s Christmas…