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A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…larized it, and got rich from it once he began publishing his tales in The Atlanta Constitution in 1876. Like Cody, Harris thought of himself as an entertainer, not as a paladin of white supremacist ideology; although the Constitution very much promoted such an ideology. What Harris did instead was render blacks as childlike creatures, helplessly naïve and funny, who could not really be expected to exercise the rights and bear the burdens of respo…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bar car!” It was through the patience and love of his friend D.E. Paulk in Atlanta (whose ministry family suffered its own scandals), that Bakker experienced what he called “a grace evolution.” While Bakker continued to drink and carry on, D.E. simply loved him through it, gently pushing Bakker to return to God. Bakker writes that he had believed grace to be “a cop-out… an excuse to sin.” But once he began studying, reading Paul in particular, Bak…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…estry is a family affair, right? There you go. Going back to this event in Atlanta, how did people seem to react to the reveal of Martin Luther King III’s ancestry? Was there any discussion afterward? Well, I don’t think so. I’m not sure that it went anywhere. King III gets a Y chromosome result in Europe. I think if I’m recalling correctly, there weren’t gasps or anything, but there was some sort of sigh or “oh”—those kinds of responses. But I th…

Cornel West: Do Not “Santa-Clausify” MLK Jr.

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…man and his career from that of his father, another prominent preacher in Atlanta, and occupant of the selfsame pulpit that his son would make into a national icon. It was there, at that same pulpit (actually across the street from the original site of the Ebenezer Baptist Church) that Cornel West offered up his rousing sermon in honor of the King National Holiday. West accomplished three things, any one of which would be worthy of accolade, but…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…claimed, “We win if we just keep having children, ’cause we’re going to outnumber them!”—a staple argument of the Quiverfull movement. Weeks earlier, Santorum had transformed this rhetoric into policy proposal at a South Carolina Fuddruckers appearance with the Duggars, where he argued that low birth rates and a declining American population (also longstanding concerns among the Quiverfull movement) should be fought by tripling the child tax deduc…

Neither Christ Nor Antichrist: A Reflection on the Election of Barack Obama

By Edward J. Blum

…Harvard and Senate-candidate W. E. B. Du Bois prayed with his students at Atlanta University: “Give us this night, O God, Peace in our land and the long silence that comes after strain and upheaval. Let us sense the solemnity of this day – its mighty meaning, its deep duty. Save this government. Cherish its great ideals – give strength and honesty and unbending courage to him whom the people today have named Chief Magistrate of these United State…

Big MoPublican Primary 2012: Dignity Watch

By Joanna Brooks

…ke the fact that he gets his hair cut at a random strip mall barbershop in Atlanta, that he shows up at the Daytona 500 sporting a Bass ProShops buttondown, and that his wife buys him skinny jeans at the Gap—an anecdote meant to telegraph regular-guy likeability and connubial charm, but that instead carries the undeniable scent of humiliation, as in, your wife bought you skinny jeans? It’s all about as convincing as those photos of John Kerry in h…

A Love Letter to #Exvangelicals and Those Deconstructing Their Toxic Faith

By Andrew L. Seidel

…sts puts it. (Often, filling these spaces is quite literal. I spoke to the Atlanta Freethought Society on The Founding Myth book tour in their building, an old church on Church Lane.) There are options, even if you’re not a public speaker or writer who wants to share your personal story and help others leave faith behind. But perhaps the biggest impact you can have is to simply live a visibly happy life free of toxic religion. To show others strug…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e in 2000, he remains the pastor at the mega-sized First Baptist Church in Atlanta. Divorce has been a growing problem for the faithful. A Barna poll from 2008 revealed 33 percent of couples overall get divorced. Born-again Christians—while apparently prizing marriage—score no better with 32 percent reporting divorce. Divorce was lowest among atheists and agnostics (30 percent) and evangelical Christians (26 percent). Finally, someone in conservat…

Lesbians Sue Lesbians, Sodomites to Follow?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…henian perspective… they fought against him, and lost). As late as 1996 in Atlanta, the Olympic team from the fledgling republic was forced to march under F (for FYROM: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) instead of M (for Macedonia). It eventually got so tiresome to write FYROM, or to say the whole name, that people just started saying “Macedonia,” for short. And that’s roughly how the battle was lost. There are countless other examples of pla…