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Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…a hurricane pounded his home in the coastal village of Cheniere Caminada in 1893. He was swept out to sea and rescued eight days later by the crew of a pilot boat 18 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Upon his return to what was left of Cheniere Caminada, he discovered that his parents and brother had died along with 800 other residents. Those who survived the flood moved “up the bayou” (as they still say in Lafourche Parish) to to…

Is #MeToo Misogyny ‘Unbiblical’? Southern Baptist Women Test Limits of Biblical Inerrancy

By Karen E. Park

…e (sketched in texts like Genesis 2:18-24; Proverbs 5:15-19; 31:10-31; Mark 10:2-12; Ephesians 5:21-33; Colossians 3:18-19; and 1 Peter 3:1-7) we are most satisfied and he is most glorified. The Baptist women who wrote to the SWBT leadership are in a tough position. They must, as evangelicals, maintain Biblical inerrancy and so they have no choice but to frame their opposition to Patterson’s actions as unbiblical. They do this by claiming he is no…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…aptist life included women preachers. Ordination of women began as early as 1815.” But among Southern Baptists, a fundamentalist takeover was underway by 1984, before its adherents consolidated power in 2000. The central players orchestrating male-only leadership in the SBC are also some of its best known public figures, like Paige Patterson, ousted in June from his position as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Judge Paul Pre…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…vered in Egypt in 1945, was first published in English by James Robinson in 1977, with a paperback version appearing in 1981. Public awareness about the Nag Hammadi materials grew consistently in the following two decades, but exploded in 2003 with the publication of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code which, more than anything, showcases Brown’s muddled if provocative incorporation of the Gnostic worldview into the novel. Fans of The Da Vinci Code don’…

The Southern Baptists’ “All Lives Matter” Approach to Racial Reconciliation Is Spiritual Malpractice

By Sunnivie Brydum and Joshua Lazard

…thin their denomination. That failure is one reason, among many, that some Southern Baptists of color, specifically black Southern Baptists, are questioning their formal affiliation in a denomination that apparently struggles to state, unequivocally, that Black Lives Matter. As lifelong Southern Baptist Lawrence Ware powerfully explained in his New York Times op-ed Monday, despite SBC resolutions heralding racial reconciliation as far back as 1995…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…follow the issues facing minority religions. The Koriya Mosque in Western China reportedly dates from 1237. Last week the Guardian published satellite images of the mosque in a kind of grotesque before-and-after. The first image, from 2017, shows the mosque from above, casting an elongated shadow. The second image shows “a smooth patch of earth.” There’s a less radical but nevertheless disturbing story about China’s Kargilik Mosque. According to…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…as a Master’s student at Fuller working the switchboard part-time, and the number one phone call that came through went something like this: “Can you connect me to C. Peter Wagner’s Church Growth Institute? I’d like to buy some materials.” No one was happier than I was when he retired from Fuller and moved to Colorado Springs! I felt like I worked at a catalog call-in center. Seriously. I would never have expected to be talking about Wagner in con…

Dalai Lama: “I Am a Marxist, But Not a Leninist”

By Tsering Namgyal

…een as a poison, it has become one of the most sought-after commodities in China. At least two other panelists, both Chinese writers, agreed that all sorts of religious beliefs are flourishing in China, particularly Buddhism and Christianity, as the Chinese consume spirituality. Now, Marxism, purported to be the guiding philosophy of the Chinese Community Party, has been replaced by American style capitalism in China. But the author of Das Kapital…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…those victims who did report their victimization to Episcopal leaders, the number one assessment from both trans/non-binary and cisgender respondents was that “little or no change” came about as a result. 20.6% of transgender and non-binary survivors reported that they simply left the church altogether. By comparison, “only” 10.7% of cisgender women felt they had to leave. (Curiously, there’s no data on this front for LGB-identified Episcopalians….

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…to the desegregation of the public schools in the 50s and 60s were, by the 1970s, threatened by the potential loss of their tax-exemptions. Southern political leaders realized that times had changed and that direct appeals to racism were no longer going to work. So the honchos of what was then called the New Right, turned to anti-abortion activism in the years following Roe v. Wade and created the “pro-life” movement. “So it has absolutely nothin…