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‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ericans who had long resided on this land prior to the arrival of European newcomers. The past we share is marked by too many broken promises, as well as violence, deprivation, and disease. It is a history that we must recognize as we seek to build a brighter future—side by side and with cooperation and mutual respect. We have made great progress together in recent years, and we will keep striving to maintain strong nation-to-nation relationships,…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…rsity, said that Trump’s speech “will go down in history as one of the greatest commencement speeches ever.” This year’s speaker was Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. On Saturday the Liberty University community heard a commencement address from an evangelical Christian who disagrees with Trump and Falwell Jr. on almost every major policy issue of the age. Carter and the Falwell family have had an uneasy relationship over the…

Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

…agreed with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (an SPLC-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group), on the solution to America’s “spiritual deficiency”: rather than discuss politics overtly, churches should simply better instruct their congregants in “the biblical worldview,” which will naturally lead to orthodox social conservative politics. Thus, according to Barna, evangelicals have a responsibility to make sure their children develo…

British Culture Wars: An American Import, By Way Of Globalized Theopolitics

By Sarah Posner

…needs to cohere a conservative coalition, would never countenance such an open-hearted Christianity. But in Britain, the focus on immigration is limited, too, and demonstrates that the globalized Christianity that is bringing immigration into the Westminster document sees it not as a religious conscience issue, but as a way of marginalizing Muslims. As Brown puts it, by calling for protection of those “appropriately seeking asylum,” the Westminst…

The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…search Institute, has been doing the op-ed thing recently to publicize his new book: White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Jones articulates a thesis that’s sure to make many a member of the pew-ballast class squirm: [W]e white Christians have not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as the nation’s dominant cultural power, we have constructed and sustained a project of perpetuating white supremacy that has…

There’s no Legal Reason for Churches to Receive Quarantine Exceptions

By Chrissy Stroop

…ential Businesses and Operations.” Although some Texas county-level shelter-in-place orders do ban religious gatherings of more than ten people, when asked about the issue, Texas Governor Greg Abbott asserted religious gatherings are exempt due to “freedom of religion.” While his rhetoric is more in line with the talking points the Christian Right has used to advance a theocratic agenda in recent years, both Whitmer and Abbot are essentially makin…

Toni Morrison, Prophet of America’s Demons (1931-2019)

By Ed Simon

…ting. In her 1993 Nobel lecture, Morrison explicated the dangers of “Tongue-suicide,” which is “common among the infantile heads of state and power merchants whose evacuated language leaves them with no access to what is… human.” Tongue-suicide is the “rousing language to keep citizens armed and arming; slaughtered and slaughtering in the malls, courthouses, post offices, playgrounds, bedrooms and boulevards… [it is the] language to countenance ra…

Why ‘Do You Believe in God?’ Is at the Heart of Our Religious Problem

By Michael Jerryson

…rminal diagnosis, I’ve been able to draw upon my personal experiences to re-examine my research. Moreover, I’ve found that this diagnosis has become a vehicle to acquire even more ethnographic information about people’s beliefs. People are more willing to discuss their religious beliefs when they know you’re dying; they’re also very keen to learn about your own beliefs. Through my work as a scholar of religion and my autoethnography, it’s become c…

God Need Not Be Real, But the Black Hole Photo Is

By Ed Simon

…ch blackness. Yet there’s something different about seeing the actual thing-in-itself as opposed to an illustration. This is pictorial evidence of a black hole; this is a photograph of the place where physics falls apart, where logic shall have no dominion, where the seemingly unassailable kingdoms of time and space are finally conquered. Where all of the mathematics fails, and something else must take hold. What Marina Korin in The Atlantic descr…

If You Don’t Have Peace You Don’t Have Jesus, Preacher Tells Georgia House of Representatives

By Andrew L. Seidel

…OR When the Supreme Court first upheld legislative prayers in 1983, the six-judge majority did not apply any constitutional test, but simply concluded—based on some lopsided history—that the framers thought prayers were just fine. Legal principle was sacrificed to cherry-picked history. Justice Thurgood Marshall attacked this error in his dissent: “if any group of law students were asked to apply the principles of Lemon [the case that determines w…