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End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

Even after they’ve been goaded by the likes of Glenn Beck to fear the Egyptian revolution, I’m getting the sense that conservative religious folks don’t know quite what to make of the anti-authoritarian revolutions across North Africa. “Just tell me, is this the kind of thing where missionaries are going to lay dead in the streets of Jerusalem for three days?” a close friend asked me, referring to a sign-of-the-times prophecy popular among LDS pe…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…abortions among black women. Said Lusk, “When I began to consider that the African-American population alone has declined in the past three years across the nation, I realized that we’re not procreating our own race; and that is a direct result of abortion in our communities.” During this January’s annual March for Life, Alveda King led a group of demonstrators in laying thousands of roses on the White House lawn to symbolize African-American abor…

Why I’m Not Quite Sold on ‘Black Santa’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…se, only later to be met with scorn and backlash on social media. Although African Americans have long depicted Santa Claus as Black, the depiction of Santa as Black seemed, to many, to signal the continued excesses of political correctness and the decline of white normativity in American cultural symbolism. Along with the fictional “War on Christmas,” there appears to be a campaign to ‘Make Santa White Again’ as in the recent case of an African-A…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…o be used in the context of each of our ministries. If it’s helpful to our African brothers and sisters for them to have really restrictive language about homosexuality in their book of discipline then let’s let them have it. And they should let us remove some of those same restrictions from our book of discipline. So do you think it will be possible to change the book of discipline in the way you’re suggesting? Right now, it’s sort of the law of…

Did Uganda’s President Really Veto the Anti-Gay Bill?

By Kapya Kaoma

…or killed. The chief actually did very good work but homosexuality was not promoted. People would whisper and ignore, the issue now is promotion as if it’s good, that we can’t accept.” Museveni echoed this claim in his letter but added that Uganda should stop those who “lure” young people into homosexual acts: “We should legislate harshly against these people with money, from within and without, who take advantage of the desperation of our youth t…

Religion, AIDS, & Africa, After Obama

By John Blevins

…me time I was at a conference in Cape Town, South Africa, sponsored by the African Religious Health Assets Program (ARHAP), an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, public health, and religious studies, that explores the role of religion in addressing the challenges facing contemporary African cultures. In one presentation, a speaker referenced the Accra speech, focusing on one sentence in particular: “This…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…artoum has a long history of violently suppressing liberation movements in Central, Western, and Southern Sudan, where the populations are mostly black African. A major cause of the war was the application of shari’ah law in 1983, which incited rebellion from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), a secular, though largely Christian group now ready to declare independence for Southern Sudan. But the Khartoum government and the SPLM have no…

Conservative Bishops Get “Different Translation” Dialing Back Language on LGBT Acceptance

By Patricia Miller

…’re very different, especially about gays. You can’t speak about this with Africans and people of Muslim countries. It’s not possible. It’s a taboo. He then went on to have this exchange with reporter Edward Pentin: But are African participants listened to in this regard? No, the majority of them [who hold these views won’t speak about them]. They’re not listened to? In Africa of course [their views are listened to], where it’s a taboo. What has c…

Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…us broadcasting came from what I perceived to be the gaps in the fields of African American religion and Religion, Media, and Culture. For the most part, scholars of African American religion in general and black theology in particular theorize about Afro-Protestantism in America according to a particular historiography that privileges liberal Protestantism in general, and civil rights motifs in particular. But the prevailing narrative of the free…

Remembering the Legacy of America’s “Green Preacher,” Rev. Ike

By Jonathan L. Walton

…mbrace his self-indulgent theology and lifestyle. In fact, most of today’s African-American televangelists are much more willing to credit their success to prominent white evangelists such as Oral Roberts, Kenneth Hagin, or Kenneth Copeland. Maybe this is poetic justice in an unfortunately racialized kind of way. Though Rev. Ike was a self-proclaimed “Green Preacher” (he professed to have ceased being a black preacher after earning his first few m…