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Pope Francis Dismisses Condoms in AIDS Fight

By Patricia Miller

…hom there are relations.” Despite Benedict’s comments, Catholic bishops in African have continued to take a hard line against condoms and actively discourage their use. In June, 45 bishops from 40 African countries signed the Common Declaration of the Bishops of Africa and Madagascar, which called the “billions of dollars allotted to the production and distribution of condoms” a “scandal.” Last year, the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference deplored…

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…

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…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…attend church, religious disengagement is growing in the black community. African Americans under the age of 30 are three times as likely to eschew a religious affiliation as African Americans over 50. This shift is crucial to understanding Black Lives Matter, a Millennial-led protest movement whose activists often take a jaundiced view of established African American religious leaders. You could say that Breinart is using the same conventional w…

Donald Trump visits a black church. It goes about as well as you would expect.

By Daniel Schultz

…stage. One black woman, Reneta Richard, yelled at him “What do you mean, ‘African-Americans have nothing to lose?’” repeating back to Trump his recent call for African-Americans to turn their back on Democrats and vote for him. Some people say this demonstrates how Flint fights back against Trump, but no, I don’t think so. It was less a confrontation than a event that went sideways. It really did seem like Trump wasn’t feeling well, and he doesn’…

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

By Timothy Gloege

…urch-going. According to Ross Douthat, all this suggests that “churchgoing Republicans look more like the party many elite conservatives wanted to believe existed before Trump came along—more racially-tolerant, more accepting of multiculturalism and globalization.” The religious faithful have Black friends, it seems, or at least they want to. For white evangelicals, Ekins ostensibly offers empirical evidence that religion has positive effects on r…

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…

Is Africa the Most Homophobic Continent?

By Darnell Moore

…h] Roth encapsulated a broad sweep of history and geography and one of the central paradoxes of Africa’s new war on gay and lesbian people. It is a war marked by political opportunism, biblical fundamentalism and a clash between cultural relativism and universal human rights. But it is also a measure of conservatives’ anxiety that every day more and more African homosexuals are coming out and losing their fear. Western liberals eager to see the be…

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

By Paul Harvey

…rights history shed of some of the mythologies of the past. Posts from the African American Reformed Network, especially this one, are helpful here. Jemar Tisby, director of the African American Leadership Initiative at the Reformed Theological Seminary, writes: The overture on racial reconciliation will not abruptly change the culture of an entire denomination. Anyone who thinks otherwise is ripe for disappointment. At the same time, approving th…

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…