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His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President

By Randall Balmer

…campaign. In doing so, by the way, he rid his party—and the nation—of its most notorious segregationist, George C. Wallace of Alabama, by beating Wallace in the Florida Democratic primary. I don’t think that Carter has ever received sufficient credit for that. I’d been batting about the idea for a biography of Carter for several decades, but I always found reasons to delay, in part because I didn’t have an angle on the project. I did research at…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…n. It is the malaise of the closet, the notion that some features of oneself are unspeakable. I am the Other. And if I feel that way, I can only imagine how young gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender Providence College students must feel. It is for them that I remain most concerned. Corvino mentioned that he had received a great number of emails from LGBT students at Providence College. One alumnus told him that he had not been comfortable being…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…it called Solutions COP21. His ruggedness and raggedness–the flag had seen more than one demonstration—paled next to the size and elegance of the building. The young man on the pole was held up by the agility that had propelled him high above the hundred-plus cops staring at him with machine guns in their hands. He was also held up by the energy of 50 or so protesters, meekly shouting their support. The gendarmes were backed up by a dozen police t…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…ut the country, as well as amendments to the Federal Civil Code to allow homosexual adoption, more than 1,000 organizations joined together to form the National Front for the Family (FNF). Heading up this front are the National Union of Parents, Family Network, ConFamilia, CitizenGo, HazteOir, Dilo Bien, and Mexico is One for the Children, among others. “Yesterday was a historic day in Mexico,” Dabdoub Giacomán emphasized on June 6, and underscore…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…ma of “accommodation” or “confrontation.” And what I am aiming for is much more modest: For at least one person to think twice before making a caricature of Christianity. Doing so is sloppy thinking and, more often than not, doing so has no effect beyond making serious people write you off. People should criticize Christianity all they want, but they should do so in knowledge—knowledge won by the act of disbelief—and not in ignorance of the thing…

A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…bid they give me grace/Well, who in the hell do they think they are?” What motivated the more confrontational lyrics? Well, I think “Fallen” was the softer side of it, but “Inside” is the other side of the coin. It’s the side that gets you frustrated and motivated into action. As a person of faith, I have experienced a wide range of emotions, beginning with sadness and just wanting to go on with my life… But then there’s another side of it in w…

The Pundits and the Dominionists

By Julie Ingersoll

…essay, the number of people who can be labeled in this way would “fit in a phone booth.” (Actually there are significantly more than he recognizes, but I take his point.) My point, though, is that this is the wrong question. Far more interesting, I think, is to look at the influence of Christian Reconstruction; how has it impacted the style of the conservative Christianity that makes up the religious right—which is not to say that if I can show in…

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

By Sarah Posner

…Crouch or Steve Munsey or Benny Hinn or Eddie Long or anybody else making more money. Instead, if you give, you will be blessed in miraculous ways. Passover has nothing to do with money, but in Munsey’s hands it is about little else. Gone is the biblical story of freedom from slavery, the journey through the desert with only the unleavened bread, or the parting of the Red Sea. Instead, a donation to TBN is like the blood Jews placed on the doors…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…come from as far away as China, Taiwan, the U.S., U.K. and Brazil. Kiyoshi Momoyama, chief priest at Negainomiya Shrine in Osaka, believes same-sex nuptials belong in Shinto — Japan’s indigenous faith. Some Shinto priests have declined to conduct same-sex wedding ceremonies because they are wary of changing the words of prayers that have been said for hundreds of years. Momoyama is undeterred. “Though there is a general form for prayer,” he said,…

Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

By Frederick Clarkson

…this period? This is not the first ethnic cleansing campaign that the Nuba Mountains have seen. For months and years, we saw signs leading up to the current crisis. We saw the corruption of the census in 2008 and the obstruction of political participation. We saw protests over the appointment of Governor Haroun—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide in Darfur—and the razing of El Feid, the home village of his leading oppone…