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From ‘Hour of Power’ to ‘Minutes of Impotence’

By Jonathan L. Walton

…as declined with the rise of younger voices like those of Creflo Dollar in Atlanta or Keith Butler in Detroit. And his public split with prominent white Word of Faith leaders in the mid-90s over racist comments made by Kenneth Hagin, Jr (son of the movement’s founding father) also served to place the elder Price on the margins of power over the previous decade. It appears, then, that the son must bear the double burden of rebuilding Crenshaw’s meg…

The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours

By Daniel Schultz

…han Georgia at large, or the role white flight played in building suburban Atlanta and its politics. Nor does he mention the interesting and probably more salient fact that wealthy, highly-educated suburban districts like this one or WI-05, which includes most of Waukesha County, form motivated, partisan counterweights to Democrats’ urban turf. (To be fair, that might be changing.) Williams doesn’t even manage to posit a causal mechanism for how O…

Double Helix: The Environment Is the Economy

By Arri Eisen

…water left over from my kids’ bath outside to water my trees (Lake Lanier, Atlanta’s main water reservoir, is 17 feet below normal for October, so outdoor watering is mostly illegal) and waited in line at Quick Trip to get gas at one of the few open service stations in the city, I saw another staggering failure of science and religion to work together. In a new survey, the intriguing results of which are buried in the back pages behind stories of…

Carter, Gore, and the New Baptist Covenant

By Bruce Prescott

Baptists in America may never be the same. For one shining moment in Atlanta, at a three-day gathering termed “celebration,” Baptists were called to repent of their long history of racism and sexism and affirm a New Baptist Covenant. Never before in the 400-year history of the Baptist denomination have black Baptists and white Baptists met with equal participation on the platform and equal numbers in the audience; never before in history have Bap…

Jesus Loves You, But You’ll Burn in Hell

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…see who they’re working with. One of their partners in their appearance at Atlanta pride is an outfit called Perimeter Church. A look at their Web site would have you think they’re one of those hip Emergent type churches with open hearts, open theology, and open doors. Not so fast. A closer look shows they’re a member of the Presbyterian Church in America—the ultra-conservative arm of the Presbyterian Church, and no friend of progressive theology…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…longer seen as risqué. In this younger generation were also an increasing number of Muslim students (from Muslim family backgrounds and also from convert backgrounds) who brought Islamic Studies into closer dialogue with Religious Studies and began to question the divide between “studying religion” and “living religion.” That said, it was really non-Muslim scholars who broke open the field. I remember the thrill of buying the book Islamic Homos…

Obama and the Louie Giglio Controversy

By Sarah Posner

…hdrawn. Read more here. President Obama has tapped Louie Giglio, pastor of Atlanta’s Passion City Church, to deliver the benediction at his inauguration. Think Progress has found, not terribly shockingly, that the 54-year-old Giglio delivered an anti-gay sermon in the 1990s. You can read all the ugly details here. I say not terribly shockingly because even today Passion City describes itself as “conservative and evangelical,” and in the 1990s, thi…

News Flash: God Has Revised the Laws of Physics

By Paul Wallace

…be inverted as seen from different points of view. Say I stomp my foot in Atlanta and you stomp yours a short time later in San Francisco. Some observers will detect my stomp first, and some will detect your stomp first. Neither is wrong, because for such pairs of events there is no “real” order. This is not a matter of mere appearances or light travel times or time zones, but is part of the way the universe is put together. In general, the order…

Religion Dispatches Turns Two

By The Editors

…g years. We will roll out a new design and logo in the next few weeks; increase the amount of multimedia offerings in the coming months; and have a really wild, swinging party at the American Academy of Religion next November in Atlanta. Keep those cards and letters coming and remember, if the world is indeed coming to an end, Religion Dispatches is here to be your informed, accessible resource for insight, anticipation, and dare we say, hope. The…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…a lawmakers sat through pleas to keep aid in dying legal in their state, a number of local television stations had their regular programming hacked. A ticker scrolled across the top of KRTV’s broadcast of The Steve Wilkos Show in all caps, like an emergency weather alert. A dark and distorted voice announced: Authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. Do not attempt to…