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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a gay British man whose husband was killed in a fall on their honeymoon in South Australia called on the British government for help after South Australian authorities insisted on listing his late husband’s marital status as “never married” on the death certificate. In addition, the surviving husband was given no say in next-of-kin decisions. Following the furor, South Australian premier Jay Weatherill said he would introduce legislation recognizi…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…endorsement of religion. Many of the bill’s critics doubt the veracity of Southerland’s secular sentiment and it’s clear that many of his admirers actually support the bill out of a desire to see the state accept Biblical religion. Yet there’s no explicit evidence that Southerland’s intentions are inherently religious, and legislative intent is one part of a key judicial test of whether a law violates the Establishment clause. Still, some of the…

Kafkaesque Reality Show Known as the RNC Kicks Off

By Paul Harvey

…of commentators. Burns himself, the owner of the NOW television network in South Carolina and pastor of the Harvest Praise and Worship Center in Easley, South Carolina, has followed the trajectory of numerous prosperity gospel-ers and megachurch entrepreneurs, white and black, from a modest Baptist background to a history of religious entrepreneurial initiatives attracting scores away from historical denominational connections. Trump and Burns rep…

The Origin Story of the Evangelical Mindset: A Conversation with Frances FitzGerald

By Eric C. Miller

…e Civil War, between abolitionists—who were all northerners, of course—and southern evangelicals who had come to support slavery. So this was nothing new, but it was also true that the South remained rather isolated intellectually for a long period of time—really, until the 20th century. It was in the North that new liberal and conservative ideas were taking hold, whereas the South, evangelical and not, remained traditionalist and for the status q…

#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

…a recent addition to South Los Angeles. Blocks away from the University of Southern California, the new space is becoming a hub for students as well as locals. Among their many class offerings, the one that caught my eye was trap yoga. Trap yoga involves doing vinyasa flows to the beat of trap music, a bass-filled, gritty sub-genre of hip hop that originated in the South. It’s become somewhat of a gateway for people of color who wouldn’t feel at e…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…f “the separation of church and state,” is still political. The reason the Southern Baptists and the Southern Methodists, respectively, were created was because of slavery—something that was a major political football of the antebellum South. Many of those moments almost pale in comparison to the clustering of voters around Christo-centric conservative values better known as the Moral Majority. The Moral Majority merged politics and religion so we…

Gen. Kelly’s Civil War Story Derives From 19th Century Pro-Slavery Evangelicalism

By Julie Ingersoll

…Wilson repeated Dabney’s and Rushdoony’s proslavery arguments in his book Southern Slavery as It Was (co-authored with League of the South Board member Steve Wilkins). And home school activist (son of the Constitution Party’s founder) Doug Phillips reprinted some of Dabney’s work under the affectionate title Robert Lewis Dabney: The Prophet Speaks. Dabney and those who continue to embrace his work continue to object to notions of social equality—…

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

By Andrea R. Jain

…ve sectarian mission. In a 2010 blog post, Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, warned Christians against practicing yoga lest they become Hindu. (I wrote about his warnings here). When a New York Times front-page article brought to mainstream attention the Hindu American Foundation’s “Take Back Yoga” campaign designed to raise awareness of yoga’s so-called Hindu origins, Mohler interpreted it as a “vindication” o…

Hank Azaria Offers to Stop Doing Apu. So…Thank You?

By Murali Balaji

…cape. There was never any coordinated effort by Hindus—or even the greater South Asian community —to protest Apu in the 1990s, and so he became an inextricable part of Simpsons iconography. For those of us living as Indian Americans (and Hindus) at the time of the show’s rise, “Ay Caramba” was only the second most memorable line next to “Thank You, Come Again,” which Azaria weaponized for mean-minded teens. Despite its presence in the country for…

A Pastor Takes on BP in New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

…ental Justice, the Sierra Club, and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. The Deep South Center connection was crucial as many of its leaders are African Americans who reside in the New Orleans East neighborhood where the Vietnamese community is found. New Orleans East is a historically and predominantly African-American region—the largest in the city—so the prospects of cooperation between the two communities was vital. “Both communities have been willin…