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Text of Terror: A Bill Granting LGBT Citizens Equal Rights Evokes Biblical Citation

By Nick Street

…ueerfolk bear the marks of the same psychosis of bigotry that plagued many Southern whites a generation ago—that is, a powerful group imagines itself victimized when a formerly subjugated minority gathers the wherewithal to ask for a place at the table. While the evocation of the specter of sexual terrorism in the statehouses of Colorado, Utah and Oklahoma is a vivid example of this loose relationship with reality, perhaps the most disturbing expr…

National Day of Prayer for Gulf Communities

By Lauri Lebo

…ions will join together for an inter-denominational sunrise service on the beach at Gulf State Park. The organization’s suggested prayer is “Give us the wisdom to end this tragedy.” I support that sentiment, especially when it’s accompanied by action. While BP may have stopped the implosion of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the overwhelming amount of destruction has not gone away. An extraordinary amount of cleanup work remains. For more information…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…; in Turkey, some who refused to change their clothes were executed). In a number of Arab and Muslim states, you can go to the beach, get a drink, skip prayers, and walk around with your hair down. You just can’t expect that your vote will matter. Tonight, in one less country, it seems that may no longer be the case. That government was overbearing, it overreached, and now, it seems to be over. Let us pay less attention to the visibility of their…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…Luhr, Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, traces the rise of politicized, evangelical youth culture over the past forty years. Investigating the complex relationships between popular culture, suburban piety, and youth alienation, she shows how Christian youth culture has been commodified and sold to secular audiences. Drawing parallels between topics as divergent as homeowner rights and school prayer, Luhr e…

What the Fight over Allah says about the Future of Evangelical Christianity

By Richard Flory

…hools, many will go out of business over the next 20 years. 3) The reduced number of evangelical colleges and seminaries will retrench and become more aware of policing their cultural/theological boundaries, doubling down on their more restrictive impulses. 4) Because of a general lack of hospitality and care and concern for “the other”— whether theological, gender, class or ethnic—evangelicalism overall will become even more white, straight and p…

The Non-Existent Tea Party-Religious Right God Gap

By Sarah Posner

…. Richard Land, head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, spoke of it today when he said, citing Romans 13, that there are “only three divinely ordained institutions: home, church, and civil government,” which is “ordained by God to punish those who do wrong and reward those who do that which is right.” In the religious right and for some tea partiers, that “limited” sphere of authority for government…

Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)

By Peter Laarman

…nally think this is doubtful, but I could be mistaken. Among the dwindling numbers of those whom we usually regard as religious moderates—the white bread Protestants and suburban Catholics—there is one issue that I believe could become transformational. The climate change crisis is going to shake old ways and old assumptions to the foundations. In California, where I live, I can already see stirrings of radical environmentalism among groups like a…

“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…s home. He dropped out of school and spent the next five years partying on South Beach, trying to pick up girls and getting high. “I was a wild man. I lived a no-holds-barred lifestyle,” Tchividjian said. “If I believed it would bring me maximum pleasure in the moment, I did it, no matter what it was.” Eventually, he said, he bottomed out. He arrived home late one night, coming down from a high, and literally fell to the floor. “God, I have tried…

The Tea Party, the Blind Man, and the Elephant: Part 1

By Julie Ingersoll

…I drive by I make a point of checking out the sign to see what’s up in Jax Beach. Sometimes there’s something mildly political: an endorsement of a local candidate or . . . not too long ago when road construction made the place entirely inaccessible, the sign told a councilman that if he could find access to the shop he could have a free sub. Now the place hosts (and I mean hosts: free wings and sausage and their locally-famous sweet tea) a monthl…

WikiLeaks Strikes the Vatican, a Camel in the Pews, and Luke Skywalker Tolerance

By Michael J. Altman

…rk’s Iona College. She worked in the school’s finance office. In West Palm Beach, Florida, a camel fell into pews full of spectators during a church nativity play. No people or animals were injured, though the camel will not be part of the Christmas pageant when it opens this weekend. A donkey and sheep will still take part. Elsewhere in Florida, a dispute in Boca Raton is raising questions about whether or not a menorah is a religious symbol. But…