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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…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…Howard University School of Divinity Terri Laws, PhD, Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn Randall C. Bailey, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Interdenominational Theological Center Lee H. Butler, Jr., PhD, Distinguished Service Professor of Theology and Psychology, Chicago Theological Seminary Rev. Dominique A. Robinson, DMin, Dean of Chapel & Assistant Professor of Religion, Wiley Coll…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…of Freedom’s Journal, the Colored American, the North Star, the Provincial Freeman, and the Weekly Anglo-African, I couldn’t help but notice the overwhelming presence of scriptural references and other kinds of religious rhetoric. It’s not that the papers weren’t working through questions of national identity, but what seemed even more crucial to recover was how particular religious ideas and practices, which I group under the umbrella of chosenne…

Watching 81% of My White Brothers and Sisters Vote For Trump Has Broken Something in Me

By Yolanda Pierce

…d uncompensated labor. And I am a Christian–a faith that was birthed in an African cradle. I am not going to leave the faith bequeathed to me by my foremothers and forefathers. But I will always speak truth from my lived experience as an African American living in a nation in which the structural sins of racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression are clearly evident even in the body of Christ. Yet I do not know as I write this whether the work…

You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…some of their values and theological understanding. It’s a strain for many African-American evangelicals…what do African Americans gain in associating with white evangelicalism as it has been hijacked by the right?” “In other words,” says McCray “those who identify as black or African-American evangelicals must bend over backwards to explain who they are.” Despite their dismay over the prospect of a Trump presidency, those I spoke to appear to be…

How the Abortion Debate Turned the Christian Right On To Liberal Arguments… and Birthed the Religious Freedom Industry

By Eric C. Miller

…m the right concerns same-sex marriage. How did they settle on a religious freedom frame? Even prior to Obergefell v. Hodges, religious freedom arguments were being advanced by conservative Christians who disapproved of same-sex marriage. For example, several state-level Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRA) were put into motion in 2014 and early 2015 in part to try and protect religious objectors. Immediately after the Obergefell decision, th…

Obama at Romero’s Tomb: The Politics of Liberation

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…cal act. I see Obama’s visit as symbolic of a shift in US attitudes toward Central America. Gone I hope is the era of intervention and manipulation. The Central America of today is different from the one that saw Romero’s blood shed while saying mass. Some would argue that the crisis of gangs and drugs that is engulfing this region is leading to a crisis that will eclipse the civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s. And yet in spite of the growing viole…

Meet the Christian Reconstructionists Behind the Latest Birther Theory

By Sarah Posner

…urports “reconnect Americans to the history of the American Republic.” The republic, the IOTC maintains, is comprised of “Sovereign States with a central government of purposely limited powers based on Biblical principles.” Titus spoke to an audience of about 200 people at the Heritage Community Church in Severn, Maryland. During the question and answer session of Titus’ lecture on what he claims is the true meaning of the First Amendment, several…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…this series—though it goes far beyond that. In this dialectic of religious freedom and unfreedom, embattled ethno-religious communities actually deployed the American tradition of religious liberty (as well as their own spiritual practices and sacred writings) to compel redefinitions of freedom, autonomy, and the rights of citizenship. The discourse of American freedom, then, could lead to very different ends than envisioned by the Anglo–Protestan…