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Mitt Learns to Say “Y’all” as Primary Heads South

By Joanna Brooks

…ted in the 1830s and 1840s and never left. My father served his mission in Louisiana in the 1960s, and he’d encounter rural Southern LDS people whose ancestors were converted in the 1840s by people like Parley P. Pratt. Exactly. But these enclaves remained miniscule until the last quarter of the twentieth century, when following national trends, LDS baptisms increased and LDS outmigration from the Mormon culture region to the South picked up. Econ…

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

…y to “explore the land of the Bible and the roots of our Christian faith.” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former Senator Rick Santorum, both Republican presidential candidates, will accompany the tour, as will Fox News’ Todd Starnes. The trip, Perkins writes, will allow travelers to see “the spiritual roots of Christianity and to build strategic relationships with political and spiritual leaders in Israel.” Just don’t ask any of them about fu…

‘Religious Liberty’ and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex

By Randall J. Stephens

…Christian Crusade, 1962). Jeff Woods, Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-communism in the South, 1948-1968 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2004), 119, 191….

Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up

By Sarah Posner

…iously, on a range of complex factors that are not explained solely by the numbers, even the declining numbers, of white evangelicals in the South, or even of declining numbers of conservative Protestants, whether defined as evangelical or mainline. As I noted in my earlier post, intensity and turnout will drive the outcome of these races. Regardless of the outcome, though, one thing is certain: there is going to be an ongoing dissection and discu…

Dear Hollywood, It’s Time to Start Making Films about Real Black Catholic Nuns

By Shannen Dee Williams

…ily humiliation. Members of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans, Louisiana, ca. 1899. Some, such as the first black Sisters of St. Mary (now the Franciscan Sisters of Mary) in St. Louis, Missouri, initially had to enter the backdoors of their motherhouse and profess their vows separately from their white counterparts. Many other black sisters had their ministries severely limited because their white counterparts refused to live and dine…

Rising Christian Right Movement, New Apostolic Reformation, Emerged as a Mid-20th Century Splinter of White Supremacy

By Keri Ladner

…zusa Street Revival, William Seymour, was the son of emancipated slaves in Louisiana. However, this racial diversity belies a dark theological heritage that is anything but kind to non-Whites (or, for that matter, to most White people). One of the ministers at Angelus Temple was a man named Wesley Swift, who attended the church’s LIFE College in the 1930s before joining its staff. Swift first encountered British Israelism at Angelus Temple through…

Holy Ground in Kentucky: Monks and Nuns Fight Fracking

By M. Sophia Newman

…was recently connected with an accidental explosion at a plant in Geismar, Louisiana, which killed two workers and injured 77. The corporation has also been involved with several other accidents in the last decade. Fracking has become a flashpoint in many communities in recent years. When President Obama was in upstate New York this week, the story took center stage, with protesters gathering at every stop to voice concerns about safety and enviro…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…rontational style, “There’s no staying neutral. You have to choose sides.” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is proposing education reforms based on the Florida model that includes public-private partnerships for charter schools, in which businesses would help fund on-site charter schools. The funding business would have a significant voice on the governing board and reserve half of the seats in the classrooms for children of employees. These effo…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…t was in the 1980s in the United States arising out of charges of abuse in Louisiana; clean-up was, of course, promised. Those charges were followed by the 2002 Boston Globe exposé; clean up was again promised, but the bishops and cardinals responsible are, in one way or another, still in charge and few priests have actually been defrocked. The European crisis is perhaps the most threatening to the political Church—the Church that claims statehood…

Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…Perry’s fellow Republicans or Christian nation mythologists to be polite (Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, Maine’s Paul LePage, Idaho’s Butch Otter, to name a few, cite “scheduling conflicts,” a politician’s version of “regrets extremely that a previous engagement prevents his accepting”). And others have just said no with no further comment, or didn’t respond to Texas on the Potomac’s inquiries. But here’s Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, according to Te…