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Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…k force in part to galvanize sentiment for the change, as did some African American and Hispanic pastors who have aligned with the SBC (often in dual alignments with their historic ethnically-defined denominations, such as the black National Baptist Convention) in recent years in order to tap its considerable resources in church support. While the convention’s powers that be (largely) lined up in support of the change, the rank-and-file pastorate…

It’s Bring Your Gun to Church Day

By Bill Berkowitz

…ery doing celebrating the life of Rev. Moon? According to several people I contacted who are familiar with Moon’s longterm initiatives within the black community, Lowery’s relationship with Moon dates back at least to the mid-1980s when Moon served an eighteen-month sentence for tax fraud, obstructing justice and committing perjury. At the time, Moon’s Unification Church tried—and were somewhat successful—in lining up supporters in minority commun…

Salvation, Purity, and Right Wing Activism: A Sampling of What Taxpayers Will Be Forced to Support as a Result of Carson v. Makin SCOTUS Ruling

By Chrissy Stroop

…e it would “threaten religious freedom.” In addition, I’ve been in regular contact with younger alumni to the point that I’m confident that little has substantially changed (although the school is much more racially integrated than it was in my day). For those who want more, I recommend checking out Rebecca Klein’s 2017 deep dive into Christian school curricula, Julie Ingersoll’s book Building God’s Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstru…

Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion

By Shanny Luft

…n journalist Francis J. Grund identified the essential differences between American and European Christianity. “The Americans,” he wrote, “enjoy a threefold advantage: they have more preachers; they have more active preachers, and they have cheaper preachers than can be found in any part of Europe.” What explained European Christianity’s weakness to compete? The answer, de Tocqueville reasoned, was that “the church cannot share the temporal power…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…ump’s spiritual advisor, Apostle Paula White-Cain who heads the Center for American Values. (She also leads the Trump campaign’s National Faith Advisory Board, an AFPI partner in targeting the 19 counties.) Wallnau says seven states are key. AFPI says nine. Apparently, the lists of the fateful 19 counties have diverged as they’ve evolved. In any case, the criteria are that they’re suburban swing counties with a population of 400,000 or more, and w…

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

…e. We need source material drawn from our cultural world that reflects our contact with the world. BRAXTON: A “grammar of compassion”—that’s a beautiful phrase. The world surely needs more compassion. I won’t begrudge people about whether their motivation for compassionate problem-solving arises from religious or secular sources. We just need to address these public problems. When teaching in divinity schools and seminaries, I remind students that…

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

…he says, pointing out that many such people are still sheltering away from contact with the wider world. The idea “also frames disabled parishioners as the objects of charity rather than allowing us to attend church on our own terms,” says Knego. Indeed, there are ecclesiological problems in how Warren’s argument is framed, which is to say, problems in how that argument understands the nature and purpose of the church. “Our worship is centered not…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…r to remember the humanity of the opponent. It was as if the caretakers of American football had made a contract with the propagators of American religion, agreeing that football would serve religion, but only if it was granted immunity for the ways it could damage bodies, young and old. Consider, for instance, the events that had transpired just ten days prior to the “Quarterback” series at Fellowship Church. On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, sixt…

The Horror Mugabe Doesn’t Want the World to See

By Frederick Clarkson

…y arrested them as spies: HARARE—State agents arrested four Britons and an American in Harare on Monday claiming they were spies who entered Zimbabwe more than a week ago allegedly to finance activities aimed at overthrowing President Robert Mugabe’s government. The four, who according to a ZBC news bulletin, entered the country on December 13, allegedly claimed to be human rights doctors on a mission to assess the health situation in Zimbabwe. In…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…has succeeded it, each portending to possess ever greater ability to be in contact and connected. Take Facebook’s succinct mission statement, for example, which nearly 80 years later echoes Pound’s sentiments: “Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and e…