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The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…ern states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee (and North Dakota) reported the highest fear of social stigma. States such as California, Washington, New York, and New England states reported the least. (Unfortunately, the article is not available online.) I can’t say I’m really all that surprised at the results. If anyone needs anecdotal confirmation, remember NFL linebacker Pat Tillman, who walked away from h…

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…he history of God debates. The great 1925 Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, was instigated by a cabal of locals looking to drum up some business. They got it. Two giants descended on Dayton to defend God and evolution, respectively, and reporters from all the big cities came with them, filling up the hotels. But, mostly, their condescending dispatches only antagonized pious small-towners there and around the country. By the end, most peo…

Perhaps Islam isn’t the Only Reason Donald Trump Didn’t Recall Muhammad Ali

By Sean O'Neil

…tory of Montrail “Money” Brown, a high school football player in Manassas, Tennessee, who’s faced heartrending obstacles, such as the death of his father, with resiliency. He has a steely drive to make good grades and get into college. When a knee-injury threatens to end his senior year, throwing the young man into despair, Bill Courtney, the affluent, compassionate and hardnosed white coach, prays aloud for Money during a team meeting. When docto…

Beware of Yoga, Taking the Jesus Out of AA, Atheist Billboard Wars—The Sequel

By Michael J. Altman

…en filed against the construction of an Islamic center in Murfreesborough, Tennessee. The original version of the Big Book, the guide for Alcoholics Anonymous, reveals how co-founder Bill Wilson and early editors shifted the language of the book from Christian language to more ambiguously spiritual terms. Apparently, it wasn’t Moses who parted the Red Sea. It was just windy. A school superintendent in Wellesley, Massachusetts has apologized for a…

When Religious Freedom Means Freedom for Religious Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…nother for the Idaho panhandle—border regions intended to draw the maximum number of attendees. Election, medical, and vaccine conspiracists, along with insurrection veterans like Flynn, Eric Trump, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Roger Stone grab most of the media attention. But a disturbing religious dimension has received far less attention; that is, until November, when Flynn blurted out their broad intention at a San Antonio rally, “If we ar…

“Ex-Gay” Crusader John Smid “Apologizes” to Gays and Lesbians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…program, “Refuge.” The controversy led to court battles with the state of Tennessee, where LIA is located, over whether or not it was properly licensed to deliver “treatment” to youth. The legal issues were resolved in 2006, and Refuge eventually closed its doors. In 2008, Smid resigned from LIA. Now, Smid is back with a new ministry called “Grace Rivers” that affirms “the sinfulness of any sexual act outside of the scriptural context of Holy Ma…

Battling The Antichrist By Outlawing Microchips

By Joseph Laycock

…m unwanted subdermal implants. A similar bill has just passed the house in Tennessee. The Georgia State Senate also passed an anti-microchip bill last month, sponsored by two Chips: Republican State Senators Chip Pearson and Chip Rogers, both Baptists and active in their churches. Beast 2.0 The sponsors of these bills, all of them Republicans and outspoken conservative Christians, claim that preventing the forced implantation of microchips is a ci…

In its Battle for ‘Life’ the Antiabortion Movement is Willing to Expose its Enemies to Death — And There’s an Old Christian Theology that Supports Them

By Beatrice Marovich

…ger. Similarly, a recent piece from ProPublica clarifies how physicians in Tennessee have been forced to treat mothers as if they’re martyrs—potentially dying in order to birth their children—as a result of that state’s recent abortion ban. But it would seem that antiabortion activists are keen to prove that their commitment to life is, at best, inconsistent. A proposed bill in South Carolina highlights just how disposable the lives of people who…

Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

By Jay Michaelson

…us conclusions I’d like to take away from the human tragedies in Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, and around the globe. They are consonant with my theology, they teach important lessons, and they help human beings in times of crisis be cognizant of the way actions have consequences. Of course, these lessons don’t apply in every case; global warming does not cause earthquakes. But they do apply in some. Extreme weather in America’s South and Midwest i…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…hen today we ought to be able to use the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, cell phones and our growing network of churches to educate the new Southern Electorate—black, white, Latino, Asian, gay, straight, labor, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostics, atheists, atudents and their elders, environmentalists—all who want a better life for all God’s people. The South matters because it is the native home of America’s original sin. Yes, we m…