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With James Cone’s Death Comes the Death of Black Theology

By Anthony B. Pinn

…f figures such as Cone, Katie Cannon, Charles Long, Jacquelyn Grant, Peter Paris, J. Deotis Roberts, and so on. While disregard of difference still has a stronghold in the Academy, it’s now much more common to find courses on black theology (and scholarship related to black theology) in curricular offerings (and the stuff of positive tenure and promotion decisions). This is not to let academic departments, administrators, and so on, off the hook….

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…ritual which occurs here, for as Pittsburgh poet Jack Gilbert says in The Paris Review, “You can’t work in a steel mill and think small,” the same city where he contemplated the once omnipresent orange ring of flame on the horizon, the mills belching out tons of steel every day, so it seemed that “Christ and the Father were still fashioning the Earth.” Particulars of Pittsburgh’s religious history can be briefly recounted: how it was settled by l…

Believing in Tiger Woods

By Mark Hulsether

…ivic/secular society’s version of repentance. From, say, Jimmy Swaggart to Paris Hilton, and onward, it seems some sort of a cohesive ritual convention has developed. In trying to respond this request, I utterly failed to produce what this reporter probably wanted—a pithy sound bite. Who Are “We”? The problem was my uncertainty about the premise of his question. I’m not sure what to make of the idea that there is a stable discourse community (“civ…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ompliance with the idea of a society dominated by white Christians. The comparison between Tarrant and the Norwegian terrorist Andres Breivik is relevant for a number of reasons. Like Breivik, Tarrant was part of a wider subculture of hatred. He likely thought of himself not as a terrorist but as a soldier in a great and hidden war, carrying out a mission on behalf of an imagined constituency of supporters. Like Breivik, he dressed up in military…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to continue his activism – and irk Rome – as he moved in with squatters in Paris and advocated for a host of reform causes in politics and the church. New Ways also reports that the Vatican “has intervened to prevent a transgender man in Spain from being a godparent.” The local bishop had previously reversed a similar decision, approving Alex Salinas’s request to be his nephew’s godparent. But the bishop reversed himself again after checking with…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marria…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…th local churches. In addition to Graham, the Association also sponsored a number of “associate evangelists,” including Howard Jones, Ralph Bell and Leighton Ford. The Association published Decision magazine, and Graham’s syndicated column, “My Answer,” appeared in newspapers across the nation. Politics By his own account, Graham enjoyed close relationships with American presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama (even though Graham met wi…

It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging

By Hollis Phelps

…growing anti-Islamic sentiment and rhetoric in the wake of the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, especially when polls have shown that a substantial majority of evangelicals have negative perceptions of Islam. It also demonstrates a deeper problem. The decision by Wheaton strikes me as part of a larger trend among evangelicals to isolate a person’s beliefs from other social, political, and cultural practices. Last month the National Associatio…

Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War

By Katherine Kelaidis

…nflict. Similarly, the tensions that motivated the terrorists in New York, Paris, and London, were largely internal to Islam; they were responding to debates over how Muslims ought to respond to Western modernity, after centuries outside, and frequently in opposition to, its powerful allure. As the uprisings of the Arab Spring suggested, the conflicts of the early 21st century weren’t a “clash of civilizations,” but a clash within a civilization,…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…ion of Energy,” in Activation of Energy. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971): 202-3. “We must recognize…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “The Convergence of the Universe,” L’activation de l’énergie. (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1963): 308. UNESCO/Scientific Commission: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Letters from my Friend Teilhard de Chardin: 1948-1955. (New York: Paulist, 1980): 59, 172….