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America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War

By Nilay Saiya

…hetoric of far-right politicians. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has openly called for a “national divorce,” a phrase deliberately chosen to conjure images of the American Civil War. Former president Donald Trump used the apocalyptic language of a “final battle” during his speech at this year’s CPAC conference as a means of framing the 2024 presidential election. Add to all this the tumult that America has endured over the past d…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…Organization In 1948, following a successful revival campaign in Augusta, Georgia, and a cross-country drive to California, Graham and his associates (whom he always called his “team”) had met at a motel in Modesto, California. Worried about Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry caricature of itinerant preachers, Graham asked his associates to consider the pitfalls that had discredited earlier revivalists and to propose ways to avoid those perils. After…

Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia

By Anthea Butler

…members of strict churches can’t uphold the high standards of living they promote, aspire to, and harangue people over. The endless carousel of revelations about the Catholic Church worldwide is exhibit A of that broken message. In that sense, there is nothing new here. The real story however, is that this case explodes the cover of the black church’s internal don’t ask, don’t tell policy which has had a profound effect on the community and its f…

Rick Warren Gives Pre-Inauguration Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church

By Michael A. Elliott

…essay comparing the virtues of Coretta Scott King to Michelle Obama. Even Georgia’s senior senator, Republican Saxby Chambliss, noted the symmetry between King’s speech at the Lincoln Memorial, some forty-five years ago, and Obama’s impending inaugural on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Meanwhile, to someone as keenly observant as Ralph, what the Obama inauguration also meant for the King holiday service was a depletion of luminaries. Nearly every…

DOMA and Religious Right Hypocrisy on “Big Government”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of Marriage Act, or DOMA. Written by thrice-married, then-Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, the bill defined marriage as being between one man and one woman, denying federal benefits to any other form of union. The bill was passed in 1996, when no states offered same-sex marriage, so it seemed like a no-brainer (since it had no political backlash). Barr later disavowed his support for the law and now DOMA is being scrutinized by a House committee. Sen. Di…

All the Candidates’ Religion Problems

By Sarah Posner

…d-evening yesterday, as the obvious polls poured in (Newt Gingrich winning Georgia, Mitt Romney winning Vermont), a strange delirium seized professional election returns watchers. First there was that surreal CNN webcam video of Sarah Palin, offering up non-prognostications about her party’s upcoming convention and her own visions for 2016; then there was Nate Silver seeing no clear path to a Romney victory in Ohio. Could Rick Santorum really win…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…within evangelicalism, like the prominent Texas Republican, David Barton, promote the idea that America is slouching toward Gomorrah. America is God’s chosen republic, Barton asserts: the nation has been an explicitly Christian country from its earliest days and needs to reverse its sinful migration away from its biblical roots. Professional historians, by contrast (including leading evangelicals like Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden)…

The Power of Bad Faith! Prophesying a “Death Panel” for Health Care Reform

By Jonathan L. Walton

…insurance coverage. Southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia where at minimum an excess of 20% of residents are uninsured. So it seems that he parts of the country that are most in need of health care reform are most likely to have citizens who decry “socialism” and believe in government initiated “death panels.” Now it would be easy to dismiss ardent health care reform opponents as politically manipulated cogs at best and ra…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…dered by both houses in Kansas, as well as in Oklahoma. Both houses of the Georgia legislature considered this kind of bill during its legislative session this year and they’re expected to be carried over into the 2019 session. These bills don’t seem to be based on the Project Blitz model, but are similar in intent.Whatever their current legislative fate, Project Blitz clearly envisions them as part of the wave of the future, shaping Christian Rig…

Gay and Christian and About to Lose Their Jobs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Shorter University, a Southern Baptist-affiliated school in Rome, Georgia, is causing a bit of a stir with its new requirement for faculty and staff to sign a “personal lifestyle statement.” The statement asks employees to affirm that they won’t sell or possess illegal drugs or drink alcohol within six hours of school functions. That all sounds innocuous enough, but, as the GA Voice reports, one vow stands out: “I reject as acceptable all sexual…