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Queer Religion and Community at HRC Summer Institute

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…is mentor/teacher, that was not the most important thing about the week in Nashville. Nor was learning from guest presenters like Emilie Townes, Susan Thistlethwaite, or Bishop Gene Robinson. Nor were the conversations about the pros and cons of marriage equality, or the importance of doing public theology or the lessons shared by those among us who identify as transgender. It wasn’t even the hevre (rendered loosely, sense of community) that devel…

Why I Give Zero F*cks What Anti-Gay Christians Think

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hey say? Who gives a fuck what they believe?” Now, with the release of the Nashville Statement, a 14-point manifesto on human sexuality endorsed by a group of evangelical leaders this past week shows why every person of good will should give zero fucks about their ill-founded and hateful opinions about LGBT people. Yes, I know. What they say and what they believe has been the source of suffering for many LGBT people who have prostrated themselves…

Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…the formation of a campus “Sexual Identity Forum,” but Belmont College in Nashville has officially recognized a gay and lesbian student group. The Most Vexed Topic If homosexuality is “the most vexed topic” among religious people, to quote Gomes, then recent responses to homosexuality at Christian schools suggest real social change, as evangelical Christians try to reconcile their growing awareness of gay and lesbian lives with the rigid attitude…

Where Did White Evangelicalism’s Hatred of Critical Race Theory Really Begin?

By Andre E. Johnson

…itical Race Theory. At the recent 2021 Southern Baptist Convention held in Nashville, many messengers came to the convention to rescind Resolution 9, despite the fact that it was only the faintest nod to the existence of systemic racism and essentially demanded nothing of its members. When they discovered they couldn’t do that because resolutions are nonbinding and merely express the sentiment of messengers assembled that year, messengers tried pr…

Living to See the Day: Civil Rights Leaders and Obama

By Michael A. Elliott

…far as Jackson’s. Rev. Vivian played a key role in the student sit-ins in Nashville in 1960, and then participated in the Freedom Rides. He eventually became a member of the executive staff of Martin Luther King’s SCLC, and he was beaten to the ground by Sheriff Jim Clark on the courthouse steps in Selma in 1965. Rev. Vivan is now in his mid-80s—a spry, dapper man who wears his enthusiasm on the sleeves of the dark suits that he favors. I went to…

Romney’s Mild Rebuke to Bryan Fischer, and Fischer’s Ugly Speech

By Sarah Posner

…Sekulow, whose organization is co-sponsor of an anti-Muslim conference in Nashville next month that is prominently promoted in the exhibit hall next door. Sekulow is one of the original evangelicals to come out for Romney.) Earlier this week, Joanna Brooks predicted here that Romney would not stand up to the bigotry of American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer, who has repeatedly engaged in vitriolic anti-Mormon, anti-gay, and anti-Mus…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

Is Tax Evasion a Christian Value?

By Lauri Lebo

The Nashville-based NRB Network, a non-profit television network available on the DIRECTV package, says it’s dedicated to defending biblical truth and “Christian values.” But in light of one of the network’s paid programs, one has to wonder how tax evasion fits into those values they’re preaching. Last week, in honor of Darwin’s birthday, the network put out a news release saying that its prime time Tuesday night programming is focused on refutin…

Mike Huckabee on the Soldiers’ Sacrifice

By Daniel Schultz

In among the expected creepiness of Mike Huckabee visiting “Nashville’s most patriotic church” was this interesting piece of theology: “I am mindful on this weekend, and I hope that we all are, that we have this great freedom because of those in the armed services,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told thousands over the Memorial Day weekend at Cornerstone Church in Madison, Tenn. “We owe to them for our citizenship what we owe to Jesus for ou…

‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…ed knocking on the doors of a bunch of the huge Christian record labels in Nashville. Within a few months, when I was twenty-one, I signed a deal with Flicker Records [EMI, now part of Capitol]. I had some good radio success, toured with major Christian music artists like TobyMac, Mercy Me, and Jeremy Camp, and did a lot of major youth events around the country, including Acquire The Fire and various Christian music festivals every year. I had a d…