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As U.S. Went to Hell, R.E.M. Hung in Without Cynicism

By Brian K. Pennington

…se: seek emotional refuge, collectively craft a narrative, and give memory free rein to mine meaning out of meaninglessness. On the very day that the state of Georgia, who also gave us R.E.M., conducted a brutally cold execution as the world looked on in disbelief, nothing might have seemed more insignificant than the retirement of a few wealthy, successful rock stars. But maybe it was a response fully in line with the band’s often unspoken religi…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…It is unclear yet if the Scottish church will be excluded from the next Lambeth Conference, the once-in-a-decade gathering, in 2020, or the next meeting of Anglican primates in 2019. Chechnya: ‘Long Arm of Retaliation’ Follows Gay Refugees Boris Dittrich of Human Rights Watch writes about Chechnya’s “long arm of retaliation” against gay men. He spoke with two gay men from Chechnya who are living in refugees in Western Europe. “We were abducted, to…

Quote of the Day

By Sarah Posner

The Hill reports that Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey of Georgia walked out of the president’s speech to the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday. Said his spokesperson: “He was disturbed and offended by the president’s use of prayer and reflection time for partisan politics and class warfare,” [Jen] Talaber said. “Rep. Gingrey enjoyed listening to the keynote speaker and found the breakfast to be inspiring until President Obama began politick…

American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus

By Brian Kaylor

…on the latest season of American Idol, the Republican state chairwoman of Georgia was engaged in paying reverence to a different type of American idol. In a bizarre moment in the world of mixing religion and politics, Sue Everhart compared Republican presidential candidate John McCain to Jesus and America to God. Addressing McCain’s patriotism and devotion to America even while being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Everhart stated, “Joh…

Federal Judge Declares Prop. 8 “Unconstitutional”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…idence shows that, by every available metric, opposite-sex couples are not better than their same-sex counterparts; instead, as partners, parents and citizens, opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples are equal. Judge Vaughn also noted that “Proposition 8 does not affect the First Amendment rights of those opposed to marriage for same-sex couples. Prior to Proposition 8, no religious group was required to recognize marriage for same-sex couples.”…

Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?

By Michael Schulson

…-funded biologist Frank Rosenzweig in an email. Rosenzweig, a professor at Georgia Tech who is part of CTI’s incoming cohort, said his job will be “to keep science front and center in all our discussions” while he works on a few scientific projects and oversees his lab. Lovin emphasized that the scholars will focus on “the way the science relates to society, the humanities, and religious questions.” Lovin emphasized that the inquiry was more conce…

Wilma Mankiller: On the Passing of a Legendary Leader

By Johnny P. Flynn

…even after the Removal era of her people from their ancestral homelands in Georgia and the Carolinas, the Cherokee developed an enviable educational system which included women—and a political system that granted rights to women almost a hundred years before the United States saw fit to do the same. The Mankiller family lands were taken over by the US Army, and they were relocated to San Francisco not long after the end of WWII. Ms. Mankiller some…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…rowth rate has surpassed that in the base. In other words, they’re growing better in the core states than they are outside of them. Actually, scratch that. The core is just about the only place the SBC is growing: between 1990 and 2010, the Convention added 955,000 members, 940,000 of whom came from their base states. (Of those, just less than 500,000 came from Texas.) So it’s the angle in that yellow line that must give SBC executives sleepless n…

To Pray or to Prey: Racism, Religion and Violence in Charleston

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ces—places committed to black beauty, intelligence, agency, creativity and freedom—have always been targets for racist violence. Even when self-images and self-awareness were incubated in urban poverty, failing schools or the police state, black churches creatively symbolized, for some, sacred terrain beyond the contaminating imprint of the white republic; whether in a storefront, freestanding building, or the surreptitious brush arbors of many ye…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…pulation 94. It has no Marian apparitions but is still a lovely village. A Georgia pastor is upset that his son will become a demon. He has started a petition against the demon mascot of Warner Robins High School. Pastor Donald Crosby says, “A demon never has a good connotation. Never… There’s nothing good about a demon.” What’s the future of mainline Protestantism? And does it involve puppets? Praise the Lord and lose ten pounds with Donna Richar…