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Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…e and take an easier job—perhaps as athletic director at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. A Democratic race without the incumbent would likely draw other contenders, though, possibly more conservative Dems eyeballing the district’s sudden rightward shift. If Shuler does stay in the race to face off against Bothwell, it won’t be the first time that progressive organizers have supported a primary challenger to a conservative Democrat. In…

Derek Chauvin’s Defense, in Keeping with a Long Racist Tradition, Seeks to Criminalize George Floyd

By Alex Zamalin

…in sexual assault against white women throughout Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee—this became their justification for murdering them in cold blood in the dead of night. When a white militia of 2,000 destroyed the thriving Black town and murdered dozens in Wilmington, North Carolina, replete with a Black newspaper and Black politicians, an enthusiastic defender of the massacre, Alfred Waddell, who would become mayor of Wilmington explained that…

The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Friend of the Devil’ is a Love Song

By Pitman B. Potter

…solidarity with people on the margins of society: “Loser,” “Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Wharf Rat,” and “Friend of the Devil” each depicts the troubled lives of card players, petty criminals, gamblers, and other down-and-out souls in ways that evoke empathy. A special series on religion and culture produced in collaboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California It is in that compassion, non-judgmental love,…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…day, the Secular Coalition For America is an umbrella lobbyist group for a number of once-competing groups, including American Atheists, the Council for Secular Humanism, and the American Humanist Association. These “adult” organizations support the growth of campus groups. American Atheists offers scholarships to student activists, noting that “special attention is given to those students who show activism specifically in their schools.” The Amer…

In a Disturbing Trend, Far-Right Candidates are Getting Crucial Support from Militia Groups and Churches

By Chrissy Stroop

…hurches known as Patriot Church; he presides over the campus in Knoxville, Tennessee. That state is also the home of Pastor Greg Locke, a far-right firebrand who fellow pro-Trump Pastor Mark Burns—a failed candidate himself—reportedly tried to convince to run for office. After January 6, Locke threatened, “You ain’t seen insurrection yet.” His megachurch, Global Vision Bible Church, reaches not only those who attend in person, but also reportedly…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…a fire at a the construction site of an Islamic center in Murfreesborough, Tennessee was an arson. Elsewhere in the state, a Memphis pastor put a “Welcome to the Neighborhood” sign outside his church to welcome the new Islamic center being built nearby. And a new mosque has gone up in Lousiville, Kentucky quite peacefully. Is the BBC anti-Christian? The Florida pastor who had planned to burn Qur’ans on 9/11 has instigated protests in Indonesia and…

Five Things We Can Learn From Creationists

By Nathan Schneider

…you to court, again and again and again. A pack of businessmen in Dayton, Tennessee saw green and orchestrated a great bout about your monkey-to-man theory. In 1925, two giants descended there for litigious combat, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. The scientists’ testimony was thought irrelevant, so you lost the case. But creationists became the laughingstock of the big-city newspapers, sending them into hiding. Years passed, science e…

Jon Huntsman Jr.’s Sex Pistols Phase Explained

By Joanna Brooks

…rt from those with whom he worked most closely, why should folks in New Hampshire and South Carolina offer theirs?” Don’t worry—Al Gore lost Tennessee too, and look how well it turned out for him……

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…wer people accepted evolution than in the United States.) According to Ron Numbers’ The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, in the wake of the publishing of Origin, Christians in America were, for the most part, able to make peace with Darwin’s theory and evolutionary principles. It wasn’t until the early 1900s, when a series of religious pamphlets, “The Fundamentals,” were published arguing for the acceptance of the B…

In Times of Upheaval, SBC Turns Its Back on “the Least of These”

By Essence C. Jackson

…lergywoman reared in the Baptist tradition, who is uninsured and living in Tennessee, and who believes that all people should have access to all reproductive healthcare needs, my heart breaks to see resolutions passed by the Southern Baptist Convention that claim to center family values while ignoring what families and their congregants truly need. How does this represent Jesus of Nazareth, who lived among and cared about the marginalized? It does…