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Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…ention’s current president, Bryant Wright, pastor of a large megachurch in Atlanta, moved for the task force in part to galvanize sentiment for the change, as did some African American and Hispanic pastors who have aligned with the SBC (often in dual alignments with their historic ethnically-defined denominations, such as the black National Baptist Convention) in recent years in order to tap its considerable resources in church support. While the…

As U.S. Went to Hell, R.E.M. Hung in Without Cynicism

By Brian K. Pennington

….E.M. will always be the source I credit for my kids’ awakening to the artistry and moral challenge that rock music at its best can deliver, Nirvana will provide the soundtrack to the fading images of one friend after another lost to the heroin that hit the alternative music scene in Atlanta as Nevermind hit the charts. Could anything be further from the nihilism of Nirvana’s distorted and driving chords than R.E.M.’s qualified insistence that the…

“Gotcha” Video & Pro-Life Bill Released Together

By Andy Kopsa

…the same bill that cast abortion as “black genocide,” helping fuel a 2010 Atlanta billboard campaign depicting African American children as an “endangered species.” And, coincidentally one day after Rose released the video, the House Majority called for a vote on PRENDA Republican leaders have scheduled a vote on H.R. 3541, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), under a suspension of House rules, which will require a two-thirds majority vot…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…two backup singers sang country gospel every Sunday night at a gay club in Atlanta and the place was always packed. People sat on barstools drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, and praising God. They knew all the words, and they smiled and danced while they sang. They were enraptured, taken over by their joy. They were worshiping. That bar was church. I can’t help but think that it’s like this even in our “secular” spaces. When queer people come tog…

“Who Is This God?”: The Controversial Sequel to the Jesus Seminar

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…attributed to Jesus were really said by Jesus. The Jesus Seminar has had a number of critics, and neither the criticisms nor the responses were always irenic. (Those wanting a play-by-play will enjoy Walter Wink’s essay from the Bulletin for Biblical Research in which he likens the whole ordeal to a boxing match that, as of the 1997 publication date, was far from over.) The intervening years, though, have shown that the Jesus Seminar—and by extens…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…epherds are heading to big cities: Mark Driscoll’s Seattle, Louie Giglio’s Atlanta, and, of course, New York—home to Tim Keller, Eric Metaxas, Gabe Lyons, Carl Lentz, Greg Thornbury, Jon Tyson, and others. Perhaps the implicit fear here isn’t altogether wrong. Suburban conservative Christians may be on to something when they detect that it will be increasingly difficult for them to limit their business relationships to the religiously or political…

“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace

By Franklin Strong

…SWNT. I was sixteen during the 1996 Olympics. My grandmother, who lived in Atlanta, let me borrow her car to drive up to Athens, Georgia, where the soccer games were being held. I remember the electricity in the stadium for the women’s final, but I also remember knowing that very few people outside of the stadium cared. Not only was it soccer, it was women’s soccer. Even the 1999 World Cup, celebrated though it was, was treated as a victory for Am…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…long admired his powerful 1993 documentary Fast Trip, Long Drop. He was in Atlanta, where I was living at the time, to screen another film. One scene featured a man standing at a podium talking about his experience with AIDS, including his faith in God. This image jolted me—I’d honestly never thought about religion and AIDS in that way, that is, about the religious lives of gay men with AIDS. I was more familiar with conservative Christian rhetori…

Like Your Small Church? Don’t Be So Selfish!

By Anita Little

…cording to Atlanta-based megachurch pastor Andy Stanley. During his sermon last week, Stanley said that going to smaller churches, just “teaches your children to hate church,” and that only bigger churches offer the potential to connect with more believers: You care nothing about the next generation. All you care about is you and your five friends. You don’t care about your kids…anybody else’s kids…You drag your kids to a church they hate, and the…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…gotry? Sure, there’s a potential for that. I was at a conference in Geneva last summer in June, and there was a French scholar who was talking about genetic ancestry testing in Europe, and how some people were trying to make white supremacy claims about different European groups. So who has more Celtic ancestry? Are the Greeks, are the Mediterraneans, are they really Mediterranean, are they Anglo-Saxon? Those kind of questions. These tests can cer…