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How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…y sad for the school. It has so much potential, so many positive things about it, but you can’t treat people this way… They treat you like you’re not close enough to God or you’d lose weight.” Wellness Gets an I.T. Upgrade ORU has faced some criticism since introducing the Fibit. Some argue that Fitbits aren’t actually that good at measuring heart rate and physical activity, and—as a cartoon in ORU’s student newspaper pointed out—users can also ga…

Single, But Married To Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…hurch has caused a shit storm in black America.” The real story is not about marriage, its about money. The amount given in tithes and offerings by black women faithful to the scriptural admonitions is, I would surmise based on my historical observations, substantial. T.D. Jakes figured that out: he became a megachurch leader with “Woman Thou Art Loosed.” But many black women are anything but “loosed.” A March 2010 study by the Closing the Gap…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…small-“d” democrat in me celebrates the fact that all sorts of folks can put in their two cents about the textbooks. The problem is that, in 2014 at least, the conservative majority on the SBOE quite clearly gave comments from ideologically-driven pressure groups (such as Texas Eagle Forum and Texas Values Action) greater weight than comments from credentialed field specialists (such as myself and my fellow reviewers). A mere two weeks before the…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…intains that despite the sins of the past we’re inching toward Bethlehem, but brutal, obsessive, investigative history, one story after another, each unraveling the last. Frederick Douglass, meanwhile, reminds us of the chief pitfall of liberalism, complacency. It can be seductive, especially when it comes cloaked in proclamations of harmony and unity. That was Family founder Abraham Vereide’s great strategic realization: a friend to fascists, he…

Rumors of the Suicide of the Liberal Church Are Exaggerated: A Response to Chris Hedges

By Mark Hulsether

…hip. It is unclear how invested Hedges is in the survival of liberal institutions—but either way, it’s hard to see how his intervention is constructive. He poses a lose/lose choice: be a neoliberal tool or a lonely radical taking potshots at institutions attempting to figure out ways to thrive. Granted, a win/win approach that maximizes the benefit of doubt in Hedges’ excluded middle ground is not more illuminating in every case. In fact, a signat…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…religious faith was deeply embedded. Okay, I really didn’t want to choose but my absolute favorite piece is in fine arts, in the visual arts gallery. It’s a beautiful illustration by the very famous and well-collected African American artist Charles White called “Move On Up a Little Higher” [see above]. Taken by Rev. Henry Clay Anderson at a church congregation in Greenville, Mississippi, Collection of the Smithsonian It appears that there has nev…

Dispatches From the Rhodian Shore: A (Tough) Love Letter to Religious Studies

By Todd LeVasseur

…/ecology approach to religious studies, they’re still outliers, massively outnumbered by the majority of programs that do not teach such courses (or possibly offer a token elective course on religion and nature/ecology) or train scholars to teach and research such content. The above data points, all published in the last two months, strongly suggest that Glacken’s analysis was spot on: we are geographic, and thus geologic, agents to the point of n…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…zying success in the primaries was entirely due to his promise to bring about a change, to put an end to the rotten practices of Washington and to replace the old cynics with a young, brave person who does not compromise his principles. And lo and behold, the very first thing he does after securing the nomination of his party is to compromise his principles.” Avneri addressed the view of many Israelis that “Obama’s declarations at the AIPAC confer…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…nly by venting grief through hashtags, but through robust conversations about the futures of people that lead to unbought, transformative politics. We can ritualize hope by converting our places of worship and prayer into engaged networks of action. Where guns have been used to diminish the freedoms of individuals, we can ritualize hope by parading to the polls to embody freedom—an act of civic responsibility transformed into a spiritual act of re…

Exclusion is Causing Great Harm: A Conversation With Suspended UMC Pastor Rev. Cynthia Meyer

By Joel Pitney

…pension. What exactly happened? I had been in discernment for some time about my future in the church. I unexpectedly became involved in a relationship after trying not to do that for a long time. I needed to figure out how I could live with integrity and be authentic to all the parts of myself. So on Epiphany Sunday—January 3rd of this year—I preached a sermon to my little congregation, in which I let them know that I was in a relationship with a…