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Trump’s Rise: What’s a Christian Progressive to Do?

By Jonathan Orbell

…ed most heavily—West Virginia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas—are precisely the same states where Trump achieves the strongest support. Some of us feel a moral impulse to condemn the ugly sentiments at work in the Trump camp. But we have to keep the broader structural realities in mind—deindustrialization, an unequal economy recovery, the dissolution of the middle class. A look at Trump’s most recent wins at the…

Tea Party Rhetoric: Literal Slavery Not So Bad

By Julie Ingersoll

…es.) And of course there’s last year’s controversial campaign ad featuring Alabama congressional candidate Rick Barber and . . . Abe Lincoln (I challenge you to try to watch the whole thing). These are but some examples; there are many more. This view, one that overstates the burden of taxes and government mandates (even if you don’t like them) and minimizes the experience of African-Americans in slavery, comes to the tea party through Rushdoony b…

ELCA Pastor: “Love Trumps Chromosomes”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…his past week, Oelschig the pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Anniston, Alabama. Two years ago, Oelschig and his congregation were adamantly opposed to changes in the ELCA that welcomed gay and lesbian clergy. The church was even thinking of pulling out of the denomination all together over the issue. Then, Oelschig had what he described as “a change of heart” on the issue. From the Anniston Star: In June, Oelschig was invited to speak at an EL…

Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…d always with at least some support from, Democrats. These states included Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Other bills in Category 1, involved “encouraging schools to teach the Bible and encouraging students and teachers to express religious beliefs in school—both of which can lead to proselytism or denigration of non-Christian faiths.” Still others sought to provide religious exemptions (or refusals) from the law in ways that…

Proof-Texting at the Sugar Bowl: Tebow’s Big Finale

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y in the last regular season game when they were trounced by the currently number one ranked University of Alabama’s “Crimson Tide.” No one can do all things, and certainly faith in God does not guarantee victory, neither in battle nor on the gridiron. That is as central aspect of the Christian story—embodied in a “suffering servant” and a crucified Christ—as any. It bears recalling that Paul was apparently in prison when he composed this letter t…

Religious Right Prays To Lift Curse Of Obama, Glenn Beck’s Commencement Speech, And A Cross In The Desert: The Week In Religion, Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…pplies to all religions,” said a spokesman. A high school band director in Alabama has been accused of coercing students to attend a concert at a Baptist church and routinely leading a class in prayer. School officials deny the claim. The Associated Press reports Pope Benedict XVI will likely apologize “for the church’s handling of clerical sexual abuse cases when he attends a meeting of the world’s clergy in June.” In Britain, a Foreign Office me…

Where’s the 2020 Democratic Faith Outreach Discussion… Or Has the Folly of Courting White Evangelicals Finally Hit Home?

By Chrissy Stroop

…hell of a lot of difference, outside of North Carolina. Maybe it’ll save [Alabama Democratic Senator] Doug Jones’ bacon.” In which case maybe it makes sense for Democrats to do a little highly targeted outreach to white evangelicals at the state and local level in races where it might make a difference, but it’s still not clear that reaching out to them as white evangelicals would make the difference. “The trick we’ve seen with the Religious Indu…

Time to Loosen the Bible Belt

By Jonathan L. Walton

…expect, “Bible Belt” states continue to have the most religious residents—Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas. Just as persons residing in the New England area—Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts—are least likely to consider themselves as people of faith. Although these somewhat predictable poll findings may corroborate the “red state value voter” versus “blue state Godless liberal” binary that has come to chara…

Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…re serving in racially integrated units, while public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and other cities were still racially segregated.” AFA’s talking points on the trumped-up religious freedom issue are still having an effect on those who have a vote in the repeal. Even Democratic Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas echoed AFA’s talking points, saying, “If the policy is changed, what impact does that have on chaplains?” Pryor asked. “Does it impede a cha…

Pro-LGBT Evangelical David Gushee: “I’m With You and the Church Needs to Change.”

By Sarah Posner

…l reaction to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. “Who’s going to be brave? Who’s going to step up? There’s never a majority. There’s always people waiting for other people to go first.” Gushee, a prominent evangelical ethicist, has been laying the groundwork for his coming out, as it were, over the past several months through a series of columns at Baptist News Global. He has turned that series into a book slated…