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Ghosts of Halloween Past

By The Editors

…f Halloween Hell Houses LUCIA HULSETHER A 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods offers violence, fear, and an Obama-like Antichrist Jesus Goes to the Dark Carnival: Hell House Gets a Makeover W. SCOTT POOLE A demon guides you through the shadows. The bodies of teenagers are strewn about like broken dolls in the mangled remains of a car, bottles of Jim Beam tellingly scattered about the wreckage… All Candy, No Jesus: Halloween in America…

Huckabee’s Super Tuesday Resurrection

By Ira Chernus

…the numbers. Huckabee won his own state by a huge margin. But in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee he ran only two to four percentage points ahead of John McCain. Granted, he came within one point of beating McCain in Missouri. But outside the South the races were not nearly that close. Huckabee lost in every other state by large margins. (By a strange coincidence, his losing number was exactly the same in the giants, New York and California: a not…

Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

Last week in Atlanta, Georgia, an unassuming house on 1530 Howell Mill Road that had been painted bright pink in promotion of rapper 2 Chainz’s latest album, “Pretty Girls Like Trap Music,” was whitewashed back to its original eggshell hue. For the past several weeks, the Pink Trap House installation had been a lot of things to different people. A quick search of the #PinkTrapHouse hashtag on Instagram shows it was a major tourist attraction to f…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…e claims made against it were that it did not recognize secular authority, promoted intolerance and violence, and demanded blind obedience to its ancient doctrines. These are all charges currently made against Islam as a religion. In the late 19th century, the prominent nativist Josiah Strong wrote, “It has been shown that it is the avowed purpose of Romanists to ‘make America Catholic.’ It has been shown that this could not be done without bringi…

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

By Diana Butler Bass

…elevated the pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine evangelical members of Congress, like Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, to superstar status. By November 2023, however, pro-Ukraine groups figured out the key to American aid in their war was swaying evangelicals. Shifting evangelicals would shift overall public opinion and might change the votes of congress members representing districts with strong evangelical representation. From the end of last year until n…

Derek Chauvin’s Defense, in Keeping with a Long Racist Tradition, Seeks to Criminalize George Floyd

By Alex Zamalin

…were engaged in sexual assault against white women throughout Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee—this became their justification for murdering them in cold blood in the dead of night. When a white militia of 2,000 destroyed the thriving Black town and murdered dozens in Wilmington, North Carolina, replete with a Black newspaper and Black politicians, an enthusiastic defender of the massacre, Alfred Waddell, who would become mayor of Wilmington ex…

The SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal is a ‘Success’ Story of the Theological Vision and Social Structure of the ‘Conservative Resurgence’

By Diana Butler Bass

…my classmates at this Massachusetts seminary were from North Carolina and Georgia. And they talked incessantly about the “fundamentalist takeover” of their denomination. The Southern Baptists had just held their annual national meeting. They’d elected another fundamentalist president and defeated a bid by SBC moderates to regain their voice in the church. It was big news and would later be seen as a “watershed moment” in the SBC. “A bit,” I confe…

Christian Reconstructionist Legislator Slams Tornado Victims for Praying to “Their God FEMA”

By Julie Ingersoll

Georgia Politico reported last week that, in the aftermath of the deadly tornados that swept across the South, State Representative Bobby Franklin said he was “saddened” as he watched his “fellow Georgians pray to their god FEMA to save them.” Of course the report, as well as the reader comments, came down pretty hard on Franklin for his appalling lack of sensitivity. You may remember Franklin as the state representative who proposed a bill requi…

Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?

By Michael Schulson

…-funded biologist Frank Rosenzweig in an email. Rosenzweig, a professor at Georgia Tech who is part of CTI’s incoming cohort, said his job will be “to keep science front and center in all our discussions” while he works on a few scientific projects and oversees his lab. Lovin emphasized that the scholars will focus on “the way the science relates to society, the humanities, and religious questions.” Lovin emphasized that the inquiry was more conce…

Wilma Mankiller: On the Passing of a Legendary Leader

By Johnny P. Flynn

…even after the Removal era of her people from their ancestral homelands in Georgia and the Carolinas, the Cherokee developed an enviable educational system which included women—and a political system that granted rights to women almost a hundred years before the United States saw fit to do the same. The Mankiller family lands were taken over by the US Army, and they were relocated to San Francisco not long after the end of WWII. Ms. Mankiller some…