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Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…and west of the Ohio River and smack in the middle of the rich uplands of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Benevolent whites therefore took it upon themselves to organize a number of “civilizing” projects, then pressed for voluntary migration of the natives to lands beyond the Mississippi, then finally lent their support to a policy of forced removal. The white liberals arguing for “amalgamation,” i.e., intermarriage, got a more resp…

As U.S. Went to Hell, R.E.M. Hung in Without Cynicism

By Brian K. Pennington

…to mine meaning out of meaninglessness. On the very day that the state of Georgia, who also gave us R.E.M., conducted a brutally cold execution as the world looked on in disbelief, nothing might have seemed more insignificant than the retirement of a few wealthy, successful rock stars. But maybe it was a response fully in line with the band’s often unspoken religiosity. Take that video, for example [scroll down to watch]: has there ever been 4 mi…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…opean congregations in the nineteenth century. Fredericka Law of Savannah, Georgia, for example, received the habit of Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception at the Shrine of Portiuncula in Assisi, Italy in 1882. She took the religious name of Sister Benedict of the Angels and professed her perpetual vows on her deathbed one year later. She is buried in Rome. Europe’s most famous black nun is undoubtedly St. Josephine Bakhita,…

Speaking of Family: When Children of Queer Families Talk About Their Lives

By John Blevins

…o parents in regard to our children. While the courts in our home state of Georgia were willing to grant parental rights to two people of the same sex, they were not willing to grant parental rights to more than two people—even though all four of us are involved in raising our sons. We consider ourselves parents, have made personal and professional decisions that have put our children’s interest first, and are named by our children as their parent…

How A Cat Saved My Life

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

In the small Georgia town where I grew up, there is a blind hill that reaches its crest at the First Baptist Church where I spent most of my young life. It was a dangerous hill, because if anything, or anyone, was in the road when your car crested that hill, you wouldn’t see it until you were right on it—or had already run over it. It was a small two-lane road, but people would routinely speed over that hill with little regard for pedestrians, or…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…on, to serve as its new president. Litton beat out his opponent, far-right Georgia pastor Mike Stone, by fewer than 600 of over 13,000 votes in a runoff election that many believed would be a turning point for a denomination looking to clarify its role in a deeply polarized nation. The SBC also has its own internal polarization to contend with, with leaders inside the denomination disagreeing on everything from how to approach (or even acknowledge…

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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y family still disapproves), and I hid my sexuality when employed in small Georgia towns that I knew would not embrace me—and might even fire me—if they knew the truth. I fled to the relative safety of Atlanta and found jobs where my sexual orientation made no difference, and since then have been up-front, even in interviews, choosing to pass up jobs where I would not be both welcomed and affirmed. Again, many of us do not have that luxury. As Pr…

Federal Judge Declares Prop. 8 “Unconstitutional”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to vote for marriage,” she said. Newt Gingrich, a former Congressman from Georgia and rumored 2012 Republican presidential candidate called the ruling an “outrageous disrespect for our Constitution and for the majority of people of the United States who believe marriage is the union of husband and wife.” He called on Congress “to act immediately to reaffirm marriage as a union of one man and one woman as our national policy.” In his ruling, Judge…

Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…ligious, but can be taught in schools because kids will not perceive it as promoting religion. By contrast, in 2016 Pennsylvania’s Board of Education found a yoga-based charter school in violation of laws prohibiting public schools from providing “religious instruction.” My new book, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?, draws on my experience as an expert witness in four legal ch…

The High Church of Art

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ee, Franz Kline, Joan Mirò, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O’Keefe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pierre Soulages (chapter 5), Antoni Tapies, Jean Tinguely (chapter 6), Mark Tobey. Sweeney was a tireless traveler, as well as a tireless writer and promoter of his aesthetic and curatorial ideas. His was a version “of midcentury modernism that placed the numinous at its core.” He believed that the avant g…