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Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…that God is a fine looking, symmetrical and ornamented white man. For the bulk of you, and all the fool Negroes of the country believe that God is white-skinned, blue eyed, straight-haired, projected nosed, compressed lipped and finely robed white gentleman sitting upon a throne somewhere in the heavens. Turner, and later Malcolm X, along with other Black religious thinkers, are correct that African Americans have the right to represent God in th…

Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

By Mary E. Hunt

…daining women deacons—that is, sacramentalizing and acknowledging that the bulk of the church’s ministry is now done by women—is too much for these men. Asked about the work of the commission he set up to study the question of allowing women to be deacons, Francis dipped and dithered in one of his airplane pressers, this time en route back to Rome from North Macedonia. The matter is apparently so trivial that it can be handled off-the-cuff with re…

Missionary Imposition: Idaho Baptists Charged With Kidnapping 33 Haitian Children

By Anthea Butler

…The whole incident becomes even more startling when you consider that the bulk of the group are not seasoned missionaries, but just regular church folks who felt “called” to get involved. These laypersons, who have never gone on a real missions trip and have no formal training, belong to churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention whose missionary work in recent years has been suspect. Their case has taken over news of earthquake rel…

Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty

By Peter Laarman

…isan extent of the obfuscation and blame-shifting when I realized that the bulk of new philanthropy going on in New York in the 1990s—an interventionist philanthropy very much focused on support for the deserving poor—was being initiated by committed Democrats. One fast-rising new charity raised staggering amounts from hip young Democratic money managers at its annual galas. It spelled out its approach in big bold letters for all to see: no, we do…

As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…r attention. As the report states, “unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, the bulk of negative legislation sought by Christian nationalists, such as those behind Project Blitz, targets schools and youth.” Indeed, as anyone who has spent any amount of time in conservative, mostly white evangelical environments can tell you, evangelicals—in addition to explicit white supremacists and other right-wing authoritarians—exhibit an unhealthy obsession with t…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…tch is, in essence, an environmental crisis. So it would make sense if the bulk of oil boom news were related to these metamorphoses in the land, and the landscape. But nothing alters the natural world without changing life for the creatures on it. And so it has actually been the case that most oil boom news is related to its human costs: the housing crisis (driven by an influx of new labor), or crime (sex and drugs ) None of these things, however…

Will ‘Pandemic Time’ Save Us From the Inhuman and Destructive Demands of ‘Fossil-Fuel Time’?

By Whitney Bauman

…y where none exists through externalizing social and ecological costs: the bulk of which are borne by poor, and black and brown bodies. The only other option than certainty, from this perspective, is confusion: which is part of the reason we have a whole host of people latching onto ‘fake news,’ ‘alternative facts,’ and conspiracy theories. Rather than deal with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the fossil-fueled time of humanity where every second…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…les of rock with glowing, explosive inner cores. – The Watchers supply the bulk of the manual labor to build the ark. – Noah’s sons are not all adult, married men when they enter the ark (Gen 7:7). The lack of wives for the boy on the cusp of manhood and the much younger boy-child are plot devices. – When Noah gets drunk and is discovered and covered by his sons he does not curse his grandson Canaan—he doesn’t exist in the movie. (I went to see th…

“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

By Anthea Butler

…e internet to see what people are saying about God and the earthquake. The bulk of the tweets are about God helping the Japanese, and prayer for the Japanese, but a number of the tweets are weighing in about God either being involved (see also here, and here) or meting out punishment (or refuting this response). Some tweets have also incorporated the Mayan calendar and the purported 2012 “end of the world” to explain the seismic activity. I’ve col…

Did Billy Graham Really Tell Romney He’d ‘Help’?

By Evan Derkacz

…ement? For one, it doesn’t look as though anyone heard Graham say it. The bulk of the meeting was closed to reporters before cameras were allowed in to take the evening’s iconic photo. Following that, as Washington Post blogger Ed O’Keefe puts it: Graham, Franklin Graham and Romney then prayed and as the meeting ended, campaign aides said that Graham told Romney: “I’ll do all I can to help you. And you can quote me on that.” Got that? Romney’s ca…