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SCOTUS Refusal Again Favors Religious Claims… But This Time in Liberals’ Favor

By Patrick Hornbeck

…urt, was that the breakaway “Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina” must return close to half a billion dollars in properties to the Episcopal Church. The issue in the case was highly technical, centering on whether a denomination’s internal governance procedures can have the effect of creating a property trust even when the church procedures don’t satisfy the state’s usual requirements for forming a trust. For context, it’s…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ey to make a bid on the purchase of lands in Paha Sapa, the Black Hills of South Dakota, considered sacred to the Lakota people. The site is called Oceti Sakowin, Pe’ Sla (The Heart of Everything) in the Lakota language and is considered the place where the Morning Star fell and killed seven Lakota girls/women who were later put into the sky to become the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades, or Wincinchala Sakowi (the Seven Little Girls). The area up for…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…seline” of normative ideas of gender among white Protestants by looking at Southern Baptists and Methodists. By examining the emergent Southern Holiness movement, I was able to see how changes in theology altered—often radically—the ways in which personal identity were perceived. Examining these changes, both in theology and gender construction, thus demonstrated how important faith commitments are to how the faithful view the world. Ye That Are M…

New Poll Shows Religious Right and Left Look Very Different

By Daniel Schultz

…rough regional parity: 27% of religious progressive activists live in the South, 20% in the Midwest, while the West splits 21-24% in the progressives’ favor. The Northeast holds 16% of progressives, and 11% of conservatives; so the religious right is somewhat more concentrated in the South, while the religious left is more distributed. Religious lefties are upbeat about their prospects. The study says: Progressive activists most frequently mentio…

Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend

By Paul Harvey

…elsewhere (most especially, from Northern seminaries which recruited down South and established emissary posts there). Historically, Southern music at its best—the bluesmen, the Carter family, Charlie Poole, and the corpus of the old, weird America—simply could not be tied down to any particular political message or program. This music was about a world beyond one’s control. Its occasional bromides or homilies were not nearly as convincing as its…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…is cross-pollination these days between Christian traditions in the Global South and in the developed world, with African evangelicals aggressively moving to develop their own missions in Texas, Ukraine, Moscow, and elsewhere. The original Counter-Reformation did not originate in Europe’s developing colonial holdings but, rather, in the European Catholic Church. In similar fashion, most of the leaders and ideas driving the second (counter) reforma…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Brandon Reed, a MAGA politician who readily manipulates religion for political gain, sponsored the Arkansas law. Reed also sponsored a bill that created “A Day of Prayer for Kentucky’s Students” and his campaign video includes the religious motto as a hashtag. But not all schools are acquiescing to Reed’s C…

How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…nter-narrative to all of that.” Jawaid, an LA Voice organizer working with African-American Muslims in South Los Angeles, said that she is encouraged by the linkages across differences of race, generation and religion that activism around Prop 47 has forged. “It’s relatively new for immigrant Muslims to work on issues that aren’t exclusive to their communities,” she said. “This has been a huge multi-faith effort. It’s pretty exciting for me person…

Kafkaesque Reality Show Known as the RNC Kicks Off

By Paul Harvey

…of commentators. Burns himself, the owner of the NOW television network in South Carolina and pastor of the Harvest Praise and Worship Center in Easley, South Carolina, has followed the trajectory of numerous prosperity gospel-ers and megachurch entrepreneurs, white and black, from a modest Baptist background to a history of religious entrepreneurial initiatives attracting scores away from historical denominational connections. Trump and Burns rep…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…bumping into tourists, every few days, who’d ask: “which way’s north?” Or south, or east, or west. I’d smile, and turn south, and point out the World Trade Center. I’d tell them: Just keep an eye on that, and you’ll always know where to go. But there was just smoke, and it stole more and more of the sky, overcoming that beautiful September morning with a sick smell. If Eid ul-Fitr falls on the anniversary of that day, it will be an especially dif…