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We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

By Greg Carey

…ws. Moreover, no one from Auburn even contacted Chelsea Andrews concerning Freeze’s most recent incident. Auburn very much wanted Hugh Freeze to coach its football program, tenth most valuable in the country with an annual revenue of $117 million. Freeze will make $6.5 million per year guaranteed over six years. Pastors and football coaches carry significant responsibility for women’s welfare. Pastors routinely deal with issues such as struggling…

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…ner. The father, in this particular family, grew up on a hog farm in South Georgia where Easter dinner is a feast, including ham, biscuits, chicken and dumplings, and many kinds of pie. It’s the kind of country cooking common in Southern farm kitchens. From the moment they walk in the door, all of the food is permissible and stays permissible until they return home. Other families decide that Easter dinner will be Kosher for Passover, with lamb or…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ar efforts to mobilize citizens to restrict gay rights have taken place in Georgia, Bulgaria, France and elsewhere across Europe. In many cases, U.S. religious groups have played an active role in their campaigns. Romania’s Coalition received legal assistance from the international chapters of several U.S.-based conservative Christian groups, including the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Liberty Counsel. In the U.S., both have been designated…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ng Evangelism has offices in Virginia Beach, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia and its 2007 revenue amounted to $42,658,159. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, whose President, CEO and General Counsel is Alan Sears, had 2007 revenue of $31,674,124. The Rev. Donald Wildmon’s Tupelo, Mississippi-based American Family Association had $22,547,087 in revenue in 2007.v Founded by Dobson and run by Tony Perkins, the Washington, D.C….

How A Cat Saved My Life

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

In the small Georgia town where I grew up, there is a blind hill that reaches its crest at the First Baptist Church where I spent most of my young life. It was a dangerous hill, because if anything, or anyone, was in the road when your car crested that hill, you wouldn’t see it until you were right on it—or had already run over it. It was a small two-lane road, but people would routinely speed over that hill with little regard for pedestrians, or…

Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…mer KGB, autocratic president of Russia, launcher of invasions of Ukraine, Georgia, and Chechnya, user of assassination to deal with defectors, murderer of opponents, likely orchestrator of domestic terrorist attacks in Russia to justify warfare, champion of the Russian Empire directly in opposition to America: it seems strange that he would find American champions on the Christian Right. But they love him because he loves violence. He loves the s…

Speaking of Family: When Children of Queer Families Talk About Their Lives

By John Blevins

…o parents in regard to our children. While the courts in our home state of Georgia were willing to grant parental rights to two people of the same sex, they were not willing to grant parental rights to more than two people—even though all four of us are involved in raising our sons. We consider ourselves parents, have made personal and professional decisions that have put our children’s interest first, and are named by our children as their parent…

Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…ns anxiously await the fate of the ragtag group of survivors holed up in a Georgia prison. What new threats will they face? Who will be the next to die in this post-apocalyptic drama? The Walking Dead premiered in 2010 with a record breaking 5.3 million viewers, the highest ratings for a cable premiere. The third season’s premiere smashed the previous record, garnering an impressive 10.9 million viewers. (To put this in perspective, the series of…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…led for Anchorage, Alaska for the weekend of September 13, which was being promoted by Wasilla Bible Church, the home church of Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP’s nominee vice presidential nominee. According to piece by Wayne Beson, the executive director of Truth Wins Out, that appeared in the Falls Church News-Press Online, Wasilla Bible Church “was caught promoting” the LWO conference through a Bible insert that read, “You’ll be encouraged by the powe…

Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend

By Paul Harvey

…ion “Hard, Hard Religion: Faith and Class in the New South” (University of Georgia, 2007) plumbs their experience as well as anyone ever has.] Once, after hearing a moving address at an academic conference on the history of Southern working people during the Depression, I asked a colleague of the presenter how she liked the talk. “But,” she sputtered in some irritation, “these people all voted for [George W.] Bush!.” She just couldn’t square the p…