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The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010); Kathryn Lofton in Oprah: Gospel of an Icon(Berkeley: University of California, 2011); Matthew S. Hedstrom, in The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford, 2013); Elesha J. Coffman, The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline (New York: Oxford, 2…

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

By Randall Balmer

…hereafter, Johnson recruited Graham to preach at Saturday-night rallies in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, part of the outreach for a new organization called Youth for Christ. In 1946, Graham joined the staff of Youth for Christ, where he met and befriended Charles Templeton, another itinerant evangelist for Youth for Christ. Templeton and Graham became known as the Gold-Dust Twins, and many contemporaries regarded Graham as the lesser preacher. Templet…

Power, The Presidency, and Social Change

By June O?Connor

…hs after he died, when I was a rookie teacher at a liberal arts college in Chicago. Diane Allen, an African-American student energized by the Black Pride Movement, asked me to direct an independent study course on the writings of Dr. King. Feeling young, overworked, inexperienced, and ignorant, my first inclination was to say, “no, I’m sorry but I won’t have time,” or “I haven’t read his writings,” or “you waited too long to ask me; I’m fully book…

You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion

By Kathryn Lofton

…of critique pop culture provides.) Consuming Religion Kathryn Lofton U. of Chicago Press September 12, 2017 I observed this in my first book, but I didn’t explain it. Similarly, I never explained the relationship between religion and consumption to the discourse of change. I repeatedly showed that this connection is there—that when you observe a consumer practice it is rarely far from a claim of transformation. But again, I never wager an explanat…

Making College Great Again: Evangelical Outsiders in the Age of Trump

By Adam Laats

…n taught students both “the Christian and American way of life.” Nearby at Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute, the president informed one donor in 1947 that MBI taught “the old-fashioned kind of Americanism.” Perhaps most famously, the fundamentalist stalwart Bob Jones University clung to the notion that evangelical values were conservative patriotic values and vice versa. Second-generation leader Bob Jones Jr., for example, told audiences in the 196…

Park 51 and RLUIPA, Or, Conservatives Hoisted On Their Petard

By Daniel Schultz

…the city to one whopping lawsuit that is extremely likely to succeed,” as Chicago attorney Dan Lauber told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet. “A federal law adopted by a Republican Congress makes the denial the Republicans seek blatantly illegal.” Several high-profile opponents of the mosque plan—including the American Center for Law and Justice and the Anti-Defamation League—have in the past defended the Religious Land Use and Institutional…

Anxiety About Homosexuality and Apocalyptic Worldview is An Old Marriage: 10 Questions for the Author of Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England

By H. G. Cocks

…esire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850 H. G. Cocks U. of Chicago Press March 2017 Also that the Sodom story has functioned as an origin myth of homoeroticism, of a city or polity given over to lust. In that respect the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah has played a key role in linking sexual excess, social breakdown and apocalyptic dreams of the world’s end. The story still retains enormous power in some places. This is espe…

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…ght of attending Converted: From Abortion Provider to Pro-Life Activist, a Chicago conference for former abortion clinic staff, made me wary. As a pro-choice Christian who tends to see anti-abortion activists as zealots with a “by any means necessary” mentality I didn’t know what to expect from a day-long meeting of new converts offering the faithful behind-the-curtain peeks at what they call the “abortion industry.” After making my way past table…

Prayer of the Day: Raising Hell

By Sarah Posner

From The Nation’s coverage of the Showdown in Chicago, where the American Bankers’ Association meeting was the site earlier this week of protests against Wall Street greed run amok. Participants, according to the terrific reporting of Esther Kaplan, not only protested, but prayed for legislation and policy that would would regulate the banks, hold them accountable, and protect and empower consumers. The Showdown, organized by consumer protection…

Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ul way.” As a Senior Fellow at American Progress, a theology professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and its former president, Thistlethwaite has seen, firsthand, how money and power have not only influenced the political and financial system, but how it has affected those at the bottom of the economic scale. Her forthcoming book is: #Occupy the Bible: What Jesus Really Said (and Did) about Money and Power. “Statistics show that 50% of American…