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In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

By Peter Laarman

…certainly noteworthy that Pope Francis praised Day and Merton (along with Lincoln and King) in his address to Congress last year. As for Thomas Merton, Raboteau finds affinities not only with activists Muste, Day, and King, but also with Heschel—inasmuch as Merton was a serious intellectual whose radicalism grew out of his immersion in sacred texts and out of his contemplative life. Merton may have “retired” to the Gethsemani Abbey, but he remain…

Gay Bishop’s Prayer Is Cut From Broadcast

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of New Hampshire, to give the invocation at the “We are One” event at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday. (Even though the Obama camp says he was selected for that honor all along but the timing of the announcement of his selection was unfortunately timed.) I was coming home from a weekend book tour trip to Asheville, North Carolina yesterday (thanks to Malaprop’s for a fabulous time!), listening to NPR, waiting for someone to tell me about the good…

Glenn’s at it Again, and Again

By Joanna Brooks

…ousand people on the Mall in that space right there between Washington and Lincoln with the Reflecting Pool—a spiritual space in our nation—the Spirit of the Lord is going to be unleashed like I think you’ve never felt it before. In the world of Mormonism, we call this rhetorical move “bearing one’s testimony.” When one bears testimony, one attests to the truth of a spiritual principle. The phrase “the Spirit is so strong” is a conventional Mormon…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…ian ethos in black America. These theologically conservative communions outnumber and overwhelm the influence and theological visions of Christian traditions that are stereotypically progressive such as the United Church Christ and the United Methodist Church. The stark reality is that the overwhelming majority of black Christians have more in common, theologically, with Southern Baptists, the Church of God, and the Assemblies of God than with Epi…

Christian Patriarchy Clouds Social Science Findings On Happy Marriages

By Darren E. Sherkat

…er in The Black Church in the African American Experience, Professors Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya begin a full chapter on the problem of patriarchy and gender with a quote from Sojourner Truth. In Jonathan Walton’s missive against Anthea Butler, he fails to understand the importance of gender and sexuality, hanging his support for the status quo on the conclusions of Professor W. Bradford Wilcox—-the dandy darling of the Christian patriarchy…

Religious Right Claims Heterosexual Marriage is a Requirement for Statehood

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…19th century. The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Law of 1862 was signed by President Lincoln and did several things: – First basic federal legislation by the Congress of the United States that was designed “to punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States”. – Bigamy punishable by a $500 fine and imprisonment not exceeding five years. – All acts passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah “pertaining to p…

Rick Warren Gives Pre-Inauguration Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church

By Michael A. Elliott

…famous mega-preacher. Outside, cordoned-off protesters shouted through megaphones, denouncing Warren’s positions on same-sex marriage, while Starbucks distributed Tazo tea latte samples just outside the church entrance. Inside, in the balcony seats that had been set-aside for non-dignitaries like Ralph and myself, I realized quickly that the service we were attending was as much about celebrating the election of Barack Obama as it was about recall…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…anization, invited Newt Gingrich to give a talk at their yearly “Spirit of Lincoln” dinner in Washington D.C. He argued that it was Hillary Clinton’s fault that she hadn’t made a sincere effort to “change” Muslim-majority countries with anti-LGBT legislation. Real leadership, he suggested, requires identifying the greatest threats to our democracy and finding a bipartisan “coalitional way” to combat terrorist violence, misogyny, and homophobia in…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…ere not companionship-based. They were economic arrangements. Okay, that’s number 1. Number 2, let’s say that your wife didn’t provide you with a male offspring. A man could take another wife and another wife and another wife until one of them did. This is the “sanctity of marriage” that is being protected. Are you kidding me? Wow. Okay, so that’s Old Testament. Then along comes Jesus. Well for those of us who follow Jesus, I always like to point…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…ny time during the day. Gun ownership is outlawed in eight states and “the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships.” Home schooling has been “severely restricted” thanks to the lobbying efforts of the National Education Association. Anonymous points out that although President Obama “expressed strong personal disapproval” of many of the Supreme Court decisions that have brought about these chang…