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The Origin Story of the Evangelical Mindset: A Conversation with Frances FitzGerald

By Eric C. Miller

…e Civil War, between abolitionists—who were all northerners, of course—and southern evangelicals who had come to support slavery. So this was nothing new, but it was also true that the South remained rather isolated intellectually for a long period of time—really, until the 20th century. It was in the North that new liberal and conservative ideas were taking hold, whereas the South, evangelical and not, remained traditionalist and for the status q…

Gen. Kelly’s Civil War Story Derives From 19th Century Pro-Slavery Evangelicalism

By Julie Ingersoll

…Wilson repeated Dabney’s and Rushdoony’s proslavery arguments in his book Southern Slavery as It Was (co-authored with League of the South Board member Steve Wilkins). And home school activist (son of the Constitution Party’s founder) Doug Phillips reprinted some of Dabney’s work under the affectionate title Robert Lewis Dabney: The Prophet Speaks. Dabney and those who continue to embrace his work continue to object to notions of social equality—…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…the site, killing hundreds and marooning thousands. About seven kilometers south this surge utterly destroyed the village of Rambara. As I write this I still do not know in perfect detail which of my friends and acquaintances survived. I do know, however, that a very good friend did not. I have since managed to speak with several other friends who were in Kedarnath and managed to escape. In speaking of what those moments were like, one said “I saw…

Painting Elephants

By Bruce Prescott

…moderate and progressive Baptists refrain from criticizing fundamentalist Southern Baptists—and pull it off. John Grisham alluded to Southern Baptists when he talked about the racism and sexism and fundamentalism of his “home church”—a church that he left. Only Bill Clinton “painted the elephant in the room” as Mitch Randall, pastor of NorthHaven Church in Oklahoma, observed, and Clinton’s remarks were intended to elicit respect and understanding…

Carter, Gore, and the New Baptist Covenant

By Bruce Prescott

…moderate and progressive Baptists refrain from criticizing fundamentalist Southern Baptists and pull it off. John Grisham alluded to Southern Baptists when he talked about the racism and sexism and fundamentalism of his “home church”—a church that he left. Only Bill Clinton “painted the elephant in the room,” as Mitch Randall, pastor of North Haven Church in Oklahoma, observed, and Clinton’s remarks were intended to elicit respect and understandi…

Here’s What Hospital Care Could Look Like in a Post-Roe World

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…e Southern Hospitals Report: Faith, Culture, and Abortion Bans in the U.S. South, we found that abortion restrictions at Southern Protestant hospitals—including enormous systems like Baylor Scott & White and AdventHealth—are ubiquitous. These policies typically prohibit any doctor in their facilities from performing an abortion except in the narrowest of circumstances, such as (according to one written policy) when “medically necessary to avert…a…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…rector of community options at the Spearfish Family Planning clinic of the South Dakota Department of Health, says that due to limited midwifery options in her state, some women choose to give birth unassisted or in the hospital. Others cross the border to Montana, a state which recognizes the licensing of CPMs, which in turn affords them the opportunity to publicly advertise their services. But in South Dakota, she says, “there are women who aren…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…f “the separation of church and state,” is still political. The reason the Southern Baptists and the Southern Methodists, respectively, were created was because of slavery—something that was a major political football of the antebellum South. Many of those moments almost pale in comparison to the clustering of voters around Christo-centric conservative values better known as the Moral Majority. The Moral Majority merged politics and religion so we…

‘Faith’ in the Political Process

By Ira Chernus

…paign trail in South Carolina found this: The brochure being handed out in South Carolina shows a picture of the candidate with his hands together and eyes closed. In large letters, it reads “ANSWERING THE CALL.” Inside, voters learn of a candidate who was “CALLED TO CHRIST” and even larger letters is a “COMMITTED CHRISTIAN” and is quoted as saying, “I believe in the power of prayer.” A brochure for Mike Huckabee? No. For The Big O. Barack Obama’s…

Scholars Upset With ‘1619 Project’ Must Abandon Vision of ‘America the Righteous’

By Peter Laarman

…that the national government had absolutely no right to interfere with the South’s management and expansion of its “peculiar institution.” Yet somehow, despite all of the overwhelming evidence of the Constitution’s devastating actual outcomes for Black people, Wilentz clings for dear life to the filmy argument that the absence of specific Constitutional sanction for “property in man” actually renders the document a universal freedom charter. He in…