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Why White Evangelical Women Aren’t the Swing Voters They Sometimes Appear to Be

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…2014, a large and hugely successful two-day conference hosted in Austin or Dallas, Texas, and live-streamed to thousands of small gatherings across the country. On stage, IF speakers do not talk explicitly about abortion, gun laws, regulating the bathrooms of transgender people, or immigration. Instead, they talk about how women’s relationships and compassion for the downtrodden can help solve social problems like poverty, homelessness, sex traffi…

Why Do Southerners Call Mormonism a Cult?

By Joanna Brooks

…es Voter Summit, Robert Jeffress, Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church of Dallas, introduced Rick Perry as a “genuine follower of Jesus Christ” and later characterized Mormonism as a “cult” to reporters. Help us understand the history behind anti-Mormon sentiment in the American South. PM: Mormon missionaries were proselytizing in the American South from before the Civil War, and wherever Mormonism went, anti-Mormonism followed. Some of it was ba…

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

By Peter Laarman

…ed Professor of Constructive Theology at the Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, to unpack structural poverty and to address religion’s stake in the dramatic growth of economic inequality in American society. RD: You are a major participant in and architect of the forthcoming conference in Houston that will address the issue of structural poverty within a religious frame. Tell me what you think is significant about such a convocation? Rieger: Re…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eings, it is against the devil.” Ocamb points to a 2007 interview with the Dallas Morning News: “My grandparents had practiced traditional religion before they became Christian. Now, in African traditional religion, if I had an attraction to a male person, that is considered as an abnormal thing, a spiritual problem. … Now, when my grandparents met the English, who introduced us to the Christian faith, they read the Bible to my grandparents, and s…

Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)

By Frederick Clarkson

…he assassination of John F. Kennedy. Baker shows that Bush was actually in Dallas on November 21, 1963 and was probably there on the day of the assassination as well. Baker draws no particular conclusions from the fact, except to document, describe and underscore the great lengths he went to conceal the fact. *Baker asserts that, much to his own surprise, Richard Nixon while no innocent, was not the instigator of the Watergate crimes and the cover…

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

…ional Day of Prayer Still, the National Day of Prayer is problematic for a number of reasons; it blurs the line between Church and State, enshrines monotheism into law, and—in its current practice—it amounts to an annual nod to the inordinate privilege afforded to Christians in our secular nation. This needs to change. Adding a National Day of Reason, however, is one of the worst imaginable strategies for accomplishing that change. First, it impli…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…ch-larger Southern Baptist Convention, following the SBC’s takeover by the Dallas mullahs in 1979. I’ve said nothing about other mostly white mainline bodies that lack much Calvinism at all in their DNA: the large evangelical Lutheran and United Methodist denominations and the Episcopal Church. Suffice it to say that they too are very rarely heard challenging inequitable social and economic arrangements these days, as they have little more to do t…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…” includes Lea Carawan of the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, Bill Dallas of United in Purpose (a Christian Right strategic and capacity building organization), Buddy Pilgrim, a businessman who served as National Director for Faith & Religious Liberty for the 2016 presidential campaign of Ted Cruz, and of course David Barton. The Project Blitz report was published at the end of 2017 and is central to the Christian Right’s agenda in the sta…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…g with Him?”, reporter David Van Biema pointed out that Hunter, along with Dallas Pentecostal megapastor T.D. Jakes, Houston Methodist minister (and George Bush favorite) Kirbyjon Caldwell and Otis Moss II, the retired pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, participated in a telephone prayer session with Obama several hours before he was declared the winner. Hunter, who came to the media’s attention in 2006 when an arrangement…

Conservative-Preacher-Turned-Progressive-Leader Carlton Pearson Finds a New Home, Ministry in Chicago

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ence distanced themselves from him. (In the case of Bishop T.D. Jakes, the Dallas preacher dubiously acquired Pearson’s mailing list of subscribers and previously held prime-time spot on TBN). Within a few years, his 5,000 member congregation was down to a faithful few hundred, his church building was in foreclosure, and his future in Tulsa a foregone failed conclusion. But it appears Carlton Pearson is in the midst of a ministerial comeback. On t…