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Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…buckle of the Bible Belt (that honor resides somewhere a little lower, in Alabama or Mississippi), Tennessee surely qualifies for a notch or two, and the intertwining roots of rural evangelicalism and country music stretch deep into the soil of American lore. And yet—bravely, naïvely, incredibly, perhaps disingenuously—ABC’s “Nashville” tells the story of contemporary country music, smack in the middle of the South, while almost completely diseng…

Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — ‘The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy’

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…eory and intersectionality. Litton, meanwhile, was a winsome preacher from Alabama who recently had made racial reconciliation a centerpiece of his ministry. To some, the two candidates represented a referendum on the Trump era, with Litton’s victory serving as something of a reckoning. But as a new book by historian J. Russell Hawkins suggests, Litton’s election might just be a new chapter in the SBC’s long and sordid history on matters of race….

Huckabee’s Super Tuesday Resurrection

By Ira Chernus

…every other state by large margins. (By a strange coincidence, his losing number was exactly the same in the giants, New York and California: a not so resounding eleven percent.) Before dawn, the pundits had looked at those numbers too, and Huckabee’s “resurrection” had largely disappeared from the headlines. Now you see the evangelicals, now you don’t, now you do again, now you don’t again. It was a replay, in miniature, of the 2004 election, wh…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…can evangelicals into Northern Iraq. Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, a number of fundamentalist Christian organizations announced plans to participate in the future rebuilding effort. At the time, the Rev. Franklin Graham indicated that his organization, Samaritan’s Purse, would lead the way. Graham, the son of the Rev. Billy Graham, who shortly after September 11, got himself into a bit of a pickle by lashing out at all Muslims, famously call…

Islamophobia is Real, Mr. Mayor—A New York City Muslim Explains

By Hussein Rashid

…tution. Let’s begin with the double-standard tango. We hear about about an Alabama teen who is reported to have a near-operational plot to attack his school. He is allowed to go back home. A couple in New York, where one partner is a serial offender, is found with explosives in their apartment, ready to blow things up. In both cases, there is no ongoing coverage of these attempted terrorist plots. They are released on bail and told to behave thems…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…schools and other public buildings, have been signed into law in Florida, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee so far in 2018. Similar bills were enacted in past years in Colorado, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Virginia.* At the teleconference to launch Project Blitz on February 16, 2016, David Barton, explained to state legislators that the IGWT bills and the bills in Category 1 are, “kinda like whack-a-mole for the other side. It’ll drive them crazy…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…mpathetic teachers to teach intelligent design and creationism. Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan and Missouri all introduced similarly-worded bills based on the template. But in the end, only one state successfully took the bait. Scientific Data Related to Creationism? Which brings us back to Louisiana. LSEA specifically targets “evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning” as subjects in which educators are required to “promote…

Democratic Religious Outreach: Fundamentally Misguided?

By Daniel Schultz

…tended to be conservative and anti-choice Democrats. Parker Griffith, the Alabama congressman who switched to the Republican Party, and Bobby Bright, another Alabaman who votes more Republican than Democratic, were Eleison clients. Both Bright and Griffith, as well as Mississippi’s Travis Childers and North Carolina’s Heath Shuler, also Eleison clients, voted for the Stupak amendment but against the health care bill last November, and against the…

Video: “[Obama] Ain’t Got No Campaign, They Got a Movement Goin'”

By The Editors

…il Rights Activist Committee, Tommy Wren, and Pastor Gwen C. Webb, Vice Chairman of the CRAC, frame the Obama candidacy in terms of a “movement” and a Godsend—literally. Webb notes that Obama, like Jesus and MLK, is an activist. In Birmingham, Alabama this isn’t just about foreign policy, health care and the economy, this is about a major sea change in the way that America sees itself; about the degree to which America follows through on the lofti…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…with the “Wales Window” at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and Romney would go with the Christus. Interestingly, both were installed in the mid-1960s. Paul Harvey: One could say that a “sub-theme” of our book is a history of representations of Jesus stamped with social class (as well, obviously, as race). The Depression-era chapter focuses especially on radicalized images from Upton Sinclair’s little-known but wonderful…