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The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…ner. The father, in this particular family, grew up on a hog farm in South Georgia where Easter dinner is a feast, including ham, biscuits, chicken and dumplings, and many kinds of pie. It’s the kind of country cooking common in Southern farm kitchens. From the moment they walk in the door, all of the food is permissible and stays permissible until they return home. Other families decide that Easter dinner will be Kosher for Passover, with lamb or…

Building Jesus out of Toast, “Pro-Life” Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs

By Michael J. Altman

…e the irony of a “pro-life” protest putting a faux murder center stage. In Georgia, Karen Handel and Nathan Deal are trying to out-pro-life each other in their runoff race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Deal is the more conservative of the two on abortion, but Handel gained an endorsement from Sarah Palin. An artist in the U.K. made a representation of Jesus out of 153 pieces of burnt toast. Another artist brings the King of Kings and the K…

Same-Sex Marriage: Good for Marriage, Good for the Pocketbook

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…years ago, my partner and I had a holy union ceremony in a small chapel in Georgia—a chapel, incidentally, that starred in the Stephen King movie Pet Semetary II. Don’t worry if you don’t recognize it, no one else has seen the movie either. The rehabbed chapel served as a beautiful backdrop to our happy day, despite its obscure infamy. Next month, my beloved spouse and I will travel to Canada and speak those vows to one another again, only this ti…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…access to soap and water themselves. Amanda Null’s exemplary reporting on “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice” documents that state’s efforts to force its residents to choose between the risk of death at work or financial destitution at home. *** As a nation our politics is imposing sacrifices and withholding solidarity. And some communities are experiencing this in a particularly painful way. The coronavirus has unmasked the legacy of struct…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…ican nominee like they used to be, which is part of the reason states like Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas are as close as they are. Other polling bears out Trump’s weakness with Evangelicals. The Barna Group released a survey in mid-October that showed him leading Clinton among evangelicals (Barna’s spelling) 55-2. That sounds good, but the Barna definition of “evangelical” is fairly restrictive, more like what most of us would call “fundament…

Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…mer KGB, autocratic president of Russia, launcher of invasions of Ukraine, Georgia, and Chechnya, user of assassination to deal with defectors, murderer of opponents, likely orchestrator of domestic terrorist attacks in Russia to justify warfare, champion of the Russian Empire directly in opposition to America: it seems strange that he would find American champions on the Christian Right. But they love him because he loves violence. He loves the s…

Boos, Jews, and Progressive Religion at DNC

By Daniel Schultz

…art. Rev. Cynthia Hale, pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia got booed, loudly, for mentioning Hillary Clinton’s name in the opening prayer. I wonder, first of all, who does this? Who heckles a prayer? I also wonder if the boo-birds had any idea who Hale is: the pioneering pastor of a 5100-member church in the strategically important Atlanta suburbs, a woman routinely included on lists of top black leaders, who’s mentored cou…

Raw Power Is Just What The Religious Left Needs

By Daniel Schultz

…and that still seems like good advice. If the recent special elections in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama demonstrate anything, it’s that turning out the vote is the way to win elections these days. Getting citizens to literally drive other citizens to the polls is far more effective than any “moral revival” or religious celebrity could ever be. Raw power is real power. If the religious left ever wants to be more than a bit player with prophetic s…

The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie

By Bradley Onishi

…try and bust them out” of prison. On November 5, 2021, QAnon supporter and Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the rioters in jail—the “Patriot Wing,” as she called it. According to Greene, the prisoners are receiving “virtually no medical care, very poor food quality, and being put through reeducation which most of them are rejecting.” In perhaps the most startling declaration, the Republican Party labeled the actions of rioters…

History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

By Peter J. Paris

…consequence, it was not until 1973 when Congresspersons Andrew Young from Georgia and Barbara Jordan from Texas became the first blacks elected from the South since Reconstruction—96 years after the fall of Reconstruction and less than a decade after President Lyndon Johnson called a press conference in the middle of Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic Party over the issue of all-white primaries in Mississ…