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Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…ian ethos in black America. These theologically conservative communions outnumber and overwhelm the influence and theological visions of Christian traditions that are stereotypically progressive such as the United Church Christ and the United Methodist Church. The stark reality is that the overwhelming majority of black Christians have more in common, theologically, with Southern Baptists, the Church of God, and the Assemblies of God than with Epi…

Mormons and Idiosyncrasy

By Martin E. Marty

…played in his demise, do a retrospective on the Mormon-hate that blighted air waves, the internet, and some printed quotations while he was spot-lit. The locus classicus of the hate, one that has plenty of company, is the on-air MSNBC spewing by Lawrence O’Donnell Jr., “pundit and actor,” on the McLaughlin Group TV show. I quote: “Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes fro…

Unnatural Disaster: When Conservative Theology & The Free Market Meet Wildfires

By Paul Harvey

…region. We were instructed to pray for rain, to await salvation via C-130 aircraft with Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems,* to understand that there must be some larger reason God had in mind for all of this, to remember those in need, to volunteer our time and resources, to be thankful for the brave firefighting soldiers on the front of this raging land war, and to be assured that ultimately we would rebuild bigger and better than ever. Thes…

Mike Huckabee on the Soldiers’ Sacrifice

By Daniel Schultz

…ion,” said [Retired Lt. Col. Courtney] Rodgers, who served 28 years in the Air Force and the Air National Guard. “So you have a Christian and a civic duty to make your Christian voice heard in the ballot box, by your legislators and in the public square where you would address freely any constitutional wrongs or moral wrongs by your representative government. We fight and we die for you to be able to do these things freely without fear of persecut…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…of their baby boomer and silent generation counterparts, respectively. The air I breathed Amid all of these changes, it might be difficult to understand why LGBTQ-affirming Christians like Michael Vasquez fight to stay in institutions that push them out. Gay marriage is the law of the land. Rainbow flags fly high. Why not venture out and find your people? Leaving isn’t so simple. To many like Vasquez, evangelicals are their people. As Alexis Garre…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e parliament. Alleged to have been masterminded by Minister of Internal Affairs Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, such legislation would bar NGOs from expressing a political opinion on an issue—like LGBT civil rights. Several human rights organizations have since spoken out against the new bill, asserting such involvement by government in the work of NGOs would abuse freedom of association and expression. Organizations are also worried that if the bill is p…

A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ves, Stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, Sending warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine And tomorrow’s dust flares into breath. –Mark Strand (1934-2014) I want to believe that the light is coming. I want to believe that even in oppressive darkness, where the forces of hate and bigotry are elevated to the highest office in the land, that dreams will indeed pour into my pillow—replacing the day’s waking nightmare….

Identifying With God: Jay-Z’s Power to Profit

By Ebony Utley

…rics about surviving economically depressed environments. In the hood, the air is thick with both religion and poverty; the mix often results in lived religion—a dynamic religion-in-action where people negotiate contradictory motivations and desires by adapting traditional religious practices to new conceptual spaces. Jay-Z’s body of work lives religion by connecting it with capitalism. As Jay-Hova, Jay-Z’s power to profit is endless. As he boasts…

Crucifying the Prairie: An Eco-Theology of Resistance for Good Friday

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ms of our culture and society. Burning metal trees flame warnings into the air like emergency flares. The oil rig becomes a symbol of the continued colonization of peoples of the prairie and a symbol of the continued reliance on an energy culture that wields death and devastating change for the planet. The oil rig is the symbol of the systemic poverty and death-dealing sacrifice zone Governor Link spoke about, but the rig might also symbolize the…

Dreaming Beyond the Madman: Reflections on the Revolution in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…afi has revealed himself to be as cruel as Saddam Hussein. He has used his Air Force and his Navy against his own people. Libyan diplomatic delegations, to their credit, are everywhere turning on Brother Leader, and members of the Air Force and Navy have defected rather than use force. But we don’t really know what is happening on the ground, and it’s hard to see, absent any kind of foreign intervention, where this is going to go. It seems like Qa…