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A Reluctant Millennial On The State of Church

By Meghan Florian

…. It should go without saying that he doesn’t look like most of the middle class North American young people this conversation is really about. It’s easy to leave church looking for, or to create, a community in which Jesus does look like us, though. That is the age old human problem from one generation to the next. We are always creating God in our own image, when it is supposed to be the other way around. We try to shape the church around our ge…

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…ica’s Class War and Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir, he captured the working class struggles of the white under-class better than any author I’ve encountered. As a boy who grew up poor in the Shenandoah Mountains near Winchester, Va., Bageant always wrote with great affection, but also with brutal honesty, of his people. Even though I never got to meet him, I feel as if I have lost a friend today. After reading Deer Hunting, I was moved to e-mail Ba…

Millennials Invent New Religion: No Hell, No Priests, No Punishment

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…st as “feel good” about the religion as the original founders. I asked the class after the presentations why they all chose to eschew the idea of hell. “Religion today is so … judgmental,” one student offered. “Yeah,” another agreed. “We don’t need some church telling us what to do when they don’t practice what they preach.” Here they were utterly consistent with an oft-cited poll of a few years ago, in which many millennials said they found the c…

“God Needs You To Get Out of the Bubble”: Riverside Controversy Exposes Theological, Racial Fault Lines of the Christian Progressive Movement

By Peter Laarman

…think progressive Christians need to do in order to overcome this sort of class and culture contestation? The more we talk, the more I am starting to believe that true multiracial coalition-building might be little more than a theological pipe dream. Please put on your collar and pastoral care hat. I need some encouragement! PL: “As long as white members are made to feel comfortable…” That’s it in a nutshell, isn’t it? And no, from the point of v…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

…y Shane Harper) resists, rhetorically humiliating Radisson in front of his class, and inspires non-Christian classmates to convert. The film, an over-the-top piece of anti-intellectualism, portrays educators as modern-day Pharisees who promote ideology rather than critical thinking. So it’s hardly surprising that some Christian students began performing this script in the first week of classes. By equating educators with the villains of the New Te…

Noise in the Hood: Raising the Volume and Losing Our Bodies

By Peter Laarman

…exquisitely sensitive to the ways in which the history of noise expresses class relations and class consciousness. He shows his contempt for smug middle- and upper-middle class types demanding silence as their natural right providing a hilarious account of Thomas Carlyle’s frustrated efforts to build himself a soundproof study in a raucous 1850s London. Keizer also has little patience with academic elites who wish to celebrate noisy outbursts of…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…he notion of queering and how it connects to theology? I actually taught a class in a church, a queer theology class, and a student asked, “Queer and theology, do those two go together?” And as we walked through the class over the course of the semester, she got to understand why they do. Now the word “queer” has a history behind it, some painful history behind it, for those within the LGBTQ community. That history has to do with lesbians and gay…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…figures such as the “bobos” (in his 2000 Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There) in order to make a broader, socially analytical point. It seems as though Brooks wants to give Harold and Erica some spark, some spunk, some redeeming qualities. But, in the end, they seem nothing more than strange satires of Brooks himself. Harold (the white American man who grows up in a comfortable middle-class family), is Brooksian in the o…

The Irony of Moral Panic over Surplus Men

By Patricia Miller

…arge enough supply of working class men with stable jobs to entice working class women to marry them. Many working class women correctly calculate that it’s better to be a single mom than to support both a child and an unemployed or sporadically employed husband. The fact that there’s no crisis of family formation among the college educated proves it’s not a matter of cultural influence—or even religiosity. In the end, it’s not a matter of morals,…

Hitching a Freedom Ride: Gay Ain’t the New Black…

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ice may be at times interrelated (i.e. the relationship between racism and classism, or the cultural connection between sexism and homophobia), they are still distinguishable and historically contingent. Racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, ageism, etc., are all independent categories. We know that white women can fight against male hierarchy even as they ignore their own complicity in terms of racial stratification. And middle-class African Amer…