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I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…he enslavement of Black bodies, located within an empire carved out of the cheap labor and natural resources stolen from the Global South, future seminarians at these six institutions can continue, without any pangs of conscience, to lift their eyes to the heavens in thanksgiving to their white God, who richly blessed them according to the loving mercies God holds for “his” chosen. But woe unto us who lack faithfulness to whiteness and insist on m…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…ater, he was handed over to an Israeli employment agency to be a source of cheap labor in Eilat—the bottom tip of the country, where the Negev meets the Red Sea, and where Sudanese and Eritrean refugees do the service jobs that support the tourism industry. William’s people are no strangers to exploitation. He told me that much of Northern Sudan was built by the Southern Sudanese. To illustrate the system of forced labor practiced in the North, Wi…

Violence Came To Tahrir Square With Pro-Mubarak Protests

By H.A. Hellyer

…ccorded with the utmost respect. After we ask them for their personal I.D. cards and search their trunks, we give them a password to speed things up at the next checkpoint, and we send a sign to the next check-point to let them know all is well. Today, we’ve added something less: are you with him, or against him? It was a different mood than yesterday. In traditional Muslim societies, its often been taken for granted that the existence of a bad ru…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…bortion rights and LGBTQ inclusion, can obtain “get out of criticism free” cards simply because they are outspoken opponents of Christian nationalism. Clearly we need better language to address anti-democratic Christian beliefs. So how does one responsibly cover Christian nationalists these days? To begin with, we must find language that doesn’t allow for the easy whitewashing of “respectable” Christians who hold authoritarian theological beliefs….

Why Pope Francis Makes Me Miss Jerry Falwell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.” Similarly, Russell Moore, the new Southern Baptist leader, is urging his followers to “tone down” their political and theological rhetoric against gays and lesbians and abortion. … when the Supreme Court in June struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act. “Love your gay and lesbian neighbors,” Mr. Moore wrote in…

How to Craft a D.I.Y. Old Testament

By Benjamin Morse

…me one big collage that needed to be conveyed in these terms. There are a number of winks to the art historian in the book: Adam and Eve as Tahitians once painted by Gauguin, the Matisse dove, the Hebrew woman bent over in front of the pyramid like one of Millet’s Gleaners, and my Malevich Moses. The paper credits read like fashion captions and modestly point out objects that required extra skill: the bouclé Moses wears when he smashes the tablet…

Virgins and Vampire Worship: The Religion of Twilight

By Linda Kay Klein

…Moms, an online group of moms who read Twilight, ritually send one another cards and gifts when others in their lives forget to), and they study “Cullenism,” the value system of the Cullens, Edward’s vampire family. Though the Twi-hard fan movement might not seem worthy of a book-length study, it is part of a widespread American trend away from organized religion and toward the sacralization of pop culture that is worth paying attention to. As rel…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…iew with Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic, King Abdullah has laid all his cards on post-Arab Spring table, and managed to insult pretty much every government around him, which doesn’t make for a good takeoff. He’s an endangered autocrat in a region overwhelmed by democracy, instability, and sectarianism. His ancestors, the Sharifs of Mecca, were supposed to be the replacement Caliphs after siding with the British against the Ottomans during WWI….

The Bible, Brought To You By Wal-Mart

By Paul Harvey

…pinoff products have a long history, from nineteenth-century Sunday school cards, to Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ painting being reproduced to allow post-World War II Americans to be “card-carrying Christians,” to countless evangelical products that pervade the world of popular culture. 3. Aside from the inevitable projections for success and commercial tie-ins designed to spin off attention to and profits for the series, the series producers s…

Will Francis’ Statements on Women and Gays ‘Make a Mess’ Inside the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…at none of its members were sporting their credentials on their Vatican ID cards, seeming to dismiss the matter handily. When asked directly about gay and lesbian people (interestingly, he used the word “gay” rather than homosexual), as such, he broke ranks with both of his predecessors by saying, “If they accept the Lord and have good will, who am I to judge them? They shouldn’t be marginalized. The tendency [to homosexuality] is not the problem…