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Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…racial resentment of voters, especially (though not only) in the South and Southwest, who felt abandoned by the Democrats, and to break up the “New Deal” coalition that had helped Democrats since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This change didn’t happen overnight—it took years. Under Eisenhower, the GOP poured more resources into the South, establishing party structures in places of the country where there had never been a Republican on the bal…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…heartland might express surprise that a SOGI ordinance could ever pass in southwest Missouri, much less in the city that hosts the headquarters of the Assemblies of God, a major conservative evangelical denomination. But Springfield has nearly 200,000 people, several universities, and a thriving LGBT community center. Opposition came from Christian Ministries Church, among other places, though CMC is not in the city limits of Springfield, it’s in…

Eclipseville, USA: The Birthplace of ‘Little Green Men’ Proudly Hosts The Point of Greatest Eclipse

By Matthew Bowman

…ell a few minutes before, and as he hauled up the bucket he glanced to the southwest and saw a gigantic silvery flying saucer cruising silently toward the house. Billy Ray watched until the saucer dropped out of sight, plunging into a gully at the edge of the farmland. Back in the farmhouse Billy Ray’s friends and family scoffed at his story, but their fun ceased when, a half hour later, the dog in the backyard began to bark violently and fled und…

Satanic Temple Considers Legal Action Against School Censorship

By Joseph Laycock

…em that this was a form of religious discrimination. The school districts, Southwest Dubois County Schools in Indiana and Federal Hocking Local Schools in Ohio, explained that they had never blocked TST’s website and that the task of determining which web content students can access is outsourced to a company called Lightspeed Systems, headquartered in Austin, Texas. Someone at Lightspeed Systems had manually tagged TST’s website as “mature,” mean…

The Non-Mask of the Red Death: A Deadly Necropolitics Hits Home

By Peter Laarman

…on, with the lowest level of masking centered in the South, Southeast, and Southwest. You could overlay the non-compliant sections and the Bible-believing sections and you’d have a pretty good match. God will decide is the mantra of many of the folks who refuse to mask up. But what kind of God might this be? That’s my question. This may be a propitious moment to recall the work of Achille Mbembe, whose penetrating Necropolitics met with internatio…

We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory

By John Stoehr

…raded the white working class for racially diverse voters in the South and Southwest. 2020 shows this was wrong. Biden won back Wisconsin, Michigan and (soon) Pennsylvania. Arizona and Georgia are on track. (North Carolina seems a longer shot.) This should scramble the conventional wisdom. It should lead to the following: while the GOP coalition is getting smaller, whiter and more regionally and ideologically homogeneous, the Democratic coalition…

What Role Should Religion Play in the Public Square? — A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist Debate and Discuss

By Brad R. Braxton and Anthony B. Pinn

…a warm congregation of earnest Black people in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. Yet I have equally vivid memories of my father’s passionate commitment to the Citizens League, a group of people in my hometown who met regularly on many Mondays to discuss and enact tangible ways to improve civic life—from poverty eradication to voter engagement. The faithful piety my father exhibited on Sunday compelled him to engage in freedom-expandi…

Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered

By Peter Laarman

…the large evangelical churches and their networks throughout the South and Southwest. That is partly why holding our event in Houston is so promising. You co-authored a powerful book with Kwok Pui Lan about the continuing potential of the Occupy movement. Your subtitle was “A Theology of the Multitude,” which I thought was really great. Describe what you mean about the potential for change that is driven from below? At present most people (includi…