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Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Kenyan leaders have attempted to paint homosexuality as ‘un-African,’ the African Commission resolution cements what many African human rights advocates have long said – that it is violence and exclusion that are un-African,” said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Kenya should uphold this resolution and protect, rather than persecute, sexual and gender minorities, at the coast and wherever anti-LGBT violence exists.” Uganda:…

From Kneel-Ins to the Condemnation of “Racial Sin”: The Meaning of the PCA’s “Overture on Pursuing Racial Reconciliation”

By Paul Harvey

…d today of about 20 percent non-white parishioners, for example. A similar number holds for Southern Baptists. This puts them about mid-point on the scale derived from a Pew study of “most and least racially diverse religious groups.” So does the rise to leadership of younger church leaders raised in a post-civil rights history shed of some of the mythologies of the past. Posts from the African American Reformed Network, especially this one, are h…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…essons for today, but the bigotry and violence toward Native Americans and African Americans at home does not. Never mind that Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime studied America’s treatment of Native Americans and African Americans in their search for models for subjugating and exterminating European Jews. Never mind that the Declaration of Independence’s “universal principles” include a description of Native Americans as “merciless Indian Savages, whose…

#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

By Andre E. Johnson

…not living up to the promises and ideals America espouses. So, when I saw African American pastors and ministers marching with protesters and speaking out, yet again, on abusive police tactics, I found myself asking a different question: “Where was the white church in all of this? I began to wonder: do they have anything to say about these killings? I wondered what they are preaching and teaching in their churches. I mean, what would it look like…

The Islamophobia Election: How “Muslim” Became a Racial Identity

By Michael Schulson

…looking at African immigrants. When they come to the United States how do African immigrants get racialized as African Americans? I don’t want it to be misunderstood that I’m saying that skin tone and pigmentation don’t matter in the United States. They obviously very much do. But there are other ways that people are racialized. For example, Latinos may be racialized based on language, and accents. Sure. It is very difficult because in the public…

Religion and Gender Trouble in the Black Arts: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman

By Josef Sorett

…nt gender crisis. Bambara wrote: I am convinced, at least in my reading of African societies, that prior … to the introduction of Christianity, a religion fraught with male anxiety and vilification of women, communities were more egalitarian and cooperative. … There were no hard and fixed assignments based on gender, no rigid and hysterical separation based on sexual taboo. Bambara’s argument was in keeping with a romanticized reading of precoloni…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…-American and likely non-white (the biggest Mormon growth areas are in the African diasporas of Central and South America and Africa). The Mormon people and the LDS Church itself has always grappled seriously with the implications of its racist past and continue to do so (see the church’s statement following the recent white supremacist march and terrorism in Charlottesville as a case in point, in which the church directly confronted the small, bu…

Does Church Temper Trump Voters’ Views on Race? New Report Whitewashes Conservative Christian Problem

By Timothy Gloege

…you feel favorable and warm toward the group,” the survey explains, while numbers below 50 represented unfavorable feelings. A majority of religious conservatives feel positively “toward Black People, Hispanics, and Asians.” And the highest numbers, in some cases topping 80%, correlate with frequent church-going. According to Ross Douthat, all this suggests that “churchgoing Republicans look more like the party many elite conservatives wanted to…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…rld and the visible world; same thing for Olukoya and many Pentecostals in African indigenous churches (AIC). Allen Anderson’s important ethnographical work on the “spirit-filled world” of sub-Saharan AICs, clearly shows their continuous-discontinuous relationship with African traditional beliefs and practices. For Anderson, Pentecostalism’s flexibility is what accounts for its success in many Majority World countries. When people convert to Pente…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…o as the “Big Five” in Africa. The African elephant, the Cape buffalo, the African leopard, the rhinoceros, and, of course, the African lion compose the celebrity group of animals for the hunter. They each made this list not because of size or rarity, but because of the danger supposedly involved in hunting them on foot. Each of these can be quite ferocious to a human being endangering them. The term “Big Five” came into being during Africa’s colo…