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ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability

By Anthony B. Pinn

…simply “God,” encourages us to laugh with stereotypical depictions of African Americans as opposed to having us laugh at them—that is, to accept the stereotype as an inside joke. The episode centers on Zoey (Yara Shahidi), the eldest of the Johnson kids, who refuses to pray at the start of family dinner because she has growing doubt concerning the reality of God. For her, the suffering that overwhelms human experience challenges belief. Can there…

Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

By Kaya Oakes

…n some of which mass is only held once a month. Additionally, life in America can tempt many priests who come there for seminary training into staying. The “abundance of resources” in America means that African religious orders struggling to train their men want to take advantage of sending them to America, but that comes at a risk. “Diocesan priests in particular,” priests who work for a bishop and receive a salary, instead of a religious order w…

Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

…yone says.” Another Louisiana pastor, Ronnie Hampton, decried the order “because Caesar is mandating how we conduct ourselves using the pretext of this virus to be able to conduct our lives and run our lives for us.” American apocalypticists tend to be suspicious of government, of course. This is partly due to their conservative bent, but this suspicion is nearly mandated by a literalist reading of the Book of Revelation. John the Revelator’s arch…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…mocratic nominee by 22 percentage points relative to 2012.” This is significant because weekly church attendance has proven a reliable marker for more conservative Catholics, and it’s this group—white, regular church-going Catholics—who have been moving toward the Republican Party with alacrity since 2000, even as the overall Catholic vote has leaned somewhat Democratic because of the increase in Hispanic Catholics. These are the Pope John Paul II…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…being been arrested for allowing black children to enroll in the South African Catholic school she headed during apartheid. When she speaks of how frightened she was as she was taken to jail, I believe her completely. And she did not back down. Nevertheless, I fear that Fresen’s heroic resistance to racial injustice provides the justification for certain seriously problematic assertions made in Pink Smoke. Early on in the film, Fresen narrates how…

Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

…son has been closely following the recent conservative backlash on evangelical campuses. When RD spoke with him in September he observed that “the white, male evangelical power structure in the United States is toppling, and that constituency is not prepared to share leadership.” Asked about the Hawkins case in a recent email, Giberson called it “another indication of a theological paranoia that seems to be sweeping across the American evangelical…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…ving feeling. White evangelicals are highly influential in the Iowa Republican Caucuses, comprising approximately one-third (32%) of Iowa Republicans according to PRRI surveys, and a majority (55%) of Republican Iowa caucus participants according to the CNN Entrance Poll. In the Iowa Poll (which was quite accurate with respect to both Trump and DeSantis) a majority (51%) of White evangelicals in Iowa say they are supporting Trump, compared to only…

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

By Douglas Harrison

…on’t have to organize. You certainly don’t have to think in large sociological categories. It’s all based pretty much on “what you tithe will be reflected in the Lord’s generosity.” And always the two major themes of Pentecostals, and more particularly black Pentecostal churches (and the larger they are, the worse it gets) emphasize two themes: prosperity gospel and opposition to gay rights. Why do you think that is? Why are those two joined? Be…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…atholic.” The essay was originally published in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, and was later included in a collection of conversion stories he co-edited with Hauna Ondrey entitled Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy. Thomas Howard comes in at number five on McKnight’s list of significant conversions, behind former Presbyterian pastor and author of Rome Sweet Home, Scott Hahn, and Marcus Grodi founde…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…t under the “compassionate conservatism” of the Bush administration to the categorical misunderstanding of black liberation theology vis-à-vis Jeremiah Wright in respect to the 2008 candidacy of Barack Obama. Not to mention, there has also been awareness of Westboro Baptist Church and the general sentiment of prominent white evangelical leadership towards immigrants from Muslim-majority countries. Chance’s rhetoric and aesthetic performance would…