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Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

By Andrew L. Seidel

…every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.” The Georgia House suffered through a sermon and then a prayer, both of which condemned all non-Baptists to an eternity of torture and torment. With the “awoman” line, they finally got a taste—the smallest sample—of what it’s like for some of the rest of us; for the nonreligious, the religious minorities, the non-Christians, the Christians who agree with Jesus’s words in the Ser…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…ple in shackles from the Chesapeake to the rich bottomlands extending from Georgia to Louisiana. Clay’s insight remains true today: the American System depends on maintaining Black misery so that white workers can feel slightly less miserable while the real wealth flows upward. And what has white American Christianity had to say about any of this? In making and marking a fundamental distinction between the “deserving” poor and the “undeserving” po…

Chick-fil-A Means “Anti-gay”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ion. The suit was settled.” The company also runs WinShape Foundation that promotes “traditional” marriage as well as a retreat center near Rome, Georgia. Gays and lesbians looking for a retreat should look elsewhere, however. In an email exchange with one gay blog, the retreat center made it clear that it defines marriage as being between one man and woman and gay couples would not be welcome. Boycotts of Chick-fil-A have been called for, but as…

Biblical Inerrancy: Responses to “What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe?”

By C. Joshua Villines

…stants, at least, the evangelicals’ emphasis on missionary activity, their promotion of conservative moral teachings (particularly effective in Africa, where competition with Islam is so central), and their virtual indifference to Eurocentric liturgical traditions, have proved a very effective combination. But in the end, there is something very Euro-American about the elevation of cultural and political issues over more spiritual concerns. Perhap…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…OP due to his strong following in the midwest, it was King’s full-throated promotion of white supremacy and white nationalism as a virtue that finally proved too much even for the GOP. And so, in 2019, Republicans unanimously voted to remove him from his committee assignments (though he wasn’t removed from the “G.O.P. House conference itself, so he [could] still attend its party meetings”). Since then, the GOP has been radicalized even further, an…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…sse James’ organization has been broken up.” • March 15, 1884, Gainsville, Georgia. In the middle of the day, a group of very drunk Jackson County farmers left the Jug Tavern drinking and shooting their revolvers as they headed down the street, driving people into their homes. As they approached the female academy, the girls fled the schoolyard into the school where the gang followed swearing and shooting, firing several rounds into the front door…

Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to ‘the Enemies of God’ — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop

By Frederick Clarkson

…hat may be because he wanted it that way. Nevertheless, when North died in Georgia recently at age 80, he’d quietly become one of the notable religious and political architects of our time. He was a prolific author and an éminence grise of the Christian Right who never gave media interviews, but who, in an ultimate irony, received major obituary notices from Christianity Today and The New York Times (publications he loathed) and not much elsewhere…

Desecration of Graves at Burr Oak Cemetery in Illinois: Why’s it So Disturbing?

By Gary Laderman

…ors to dissect; or more recently, the tri-state crematory scandal in North Georgia with bodies left unburied on the grounds, defiled ashes after cremation, and living family members outraged by the disgraceful management of their dead. Now with relatives of more than 7,000 bodies questioning the treatment and care of the dead entrusted to the Burr Oak Cemetery in Illinois, the American public is gripped by the indignity associated with the desecra…

WikiLeaks Strikes the Vatican, a Camel in the Pews, and Luke Skywalker Tolerance

By Michael J. Altman

…agents are sent into US mosques as “an essential law enforcement tool.” In Georgia, the ACLU is suing the City of Douglasville on behalf of a woman who wasn’t allowed to wear her headscarf into a courtroom and was subsequently jailed for contempt. Fort Worth, Texas is in the midst of a brouhaha over “Good without God” bus ads put out by local atheists. Some local Christians have responded by following the buses around in a truck that says “I still…

Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

By Joseph Laycock

…ken, Mary Ann Van Hoof of Necedah, Wisconsin, and Nancy Fowler of Conyers, Georgia, have been soundly condemned for their radical and apocalyptic prophecies. But the fact is, many Catholics could care less whether their favorite Marian apparition receives approval from the Vatican. After all, what right do Church authorities have to challenge the Queen of Heaven? Frequently, Marian piety actually serves as an outlet for ideas that the Catholic hie…