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Alabama Gov. Claims Only Evangelicals are His Brothers and Sisters

By Matthew Bowman

…to pastor; he, almost awkwardly, seemed to understand that there is in America today a difference but at the same time to believe that it was his responsibility to at that moment be both. His response to criticism sought to reassure with the language of inclusivity, equality, and government of all the people. It is a mark of the nature of contemporary American cultural pluralism that Bentley seems aware of his slip. But it may also be such a mark…

Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity

By Anthea Butler

…ationist, hegemonic WASP politics that son Franklin Graham and many others promote today. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Franklin Graham simply represents a more strident version of 1950s Billy Graham. It’s not surprising then, that Billy Graham will finish his race in the United States Capitol next week. House Speaker Paul Ryan has indicated that Billy Graham will lie in state in the Capitol from February 28 to March 1st. For the most…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…ng, and I wish I had at least one as neat, but shorter. I want to be hands-free and secure at the same time. I have long rectangular shapes that get draped, and I will use them when I am not also walking great distances or throwing rocks! Too late now—even if I asked my friends where they make these scarves, none could get to me on time. I was tempted to wash everything this morning, just so I would know how they fare through the regular wash cycl…

“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

By Welton Gaddy

…ork that I was doing over the course of the past 4 or 5 years or so was to promote the agenda that marriage is the union of a man and a woman only, and that anything contrary to that definition was invalid, basically. And more so over the course of the past year or so, I was working directly with the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in promoting this agenda, and specifically the way that I opted to do that was by organizing a summer bus to…

Kirill’s Sermon May Be Bad Preaching and Even Worse Theology — But it’s a Top-Notch Rejection of Liberal Democracy

By Daniel Schultz

…he so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power. Today there is such a test for the loyalty of this government, a kind of pass to that “happy” world, the world of excess consumption, the world of visible “freedom”. Do you know what this test is? The test is very simple and at the same time terrible – this is a gay parade. The demands on many to hold a gay parade are a test of loyalty to that very powerful world; and we kn…

RD10Q: Living Without God

By Ronald Aronson

…nd philosophical masterpiece. What’s your next book? Living without God in Today’s America: Political Tasks for Secularists. Or The Book of Hope. Or The Book of Gratitude. All three are taking next steps from Living without God. The first idea idea is to take the political step, assessing our situation in the United States and the need for coming together in order to push for a genuinely multicultural society, one that has space for nonbelievers a…

No, Trump’s Evangelical Support Isn’t Cracking: The ‘Independent’ Jumps the Shark

By Chrissy Stroop

…rity gospel.” Geddis doesn’t seem to realize that the tiny proportion of African-American Protestants who do support Trump tend to be associated with the very prosperity gospel he argues will hurt Trump’s reelection chances. Indeed, for an article devoting so much space to President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor Paula White—herself a prominent neo-charismatic prosperity preacher—it seems careless at best to omit the fact that the congregation o…

World AIDS Day: Sacralizing Change

By Susan Henking

…globally are women; and the syndrome is the leading cause of death among African American women between 25 and 34. Now, in 2008, nearly fifty percent of new U.S. diagnoses of HIV or AIDS occur among black people. And Hispanics, as well, are disproportionately affected by AIDS/HIV in the United States. Nearly 50 percent of US infections reported in March 2008 (data for 2006) were male to male infections. (For such data, see here and here. The curre…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…more right-wing Israeli government, whose policies would be anathema in American civil discourse. Is dying because America needs to keep its allies happy better than dying because you’re in the wrong religion, or pray in the wrong way? I don’t know, but I don’t imagine it makes all that difference. I imagine it wouldn’t to you, either, if your loved ones were being killed, oppressed, dispossessed and so on and so forth. That our victims are largel…

Grassroots Faith: The Lessons of The Social Gospel

By Christopher H. Evans

…spel helped foster a larger movement of public theology, critical to those today who consider themselves a part of any form of religious progressivism. Yet the original social gospel, like today’s progressives, also faced the challenge of defining its mission to the larger culture, specifically, how best to engage important political and economic interests of the time. This engagement led the movement to raise a number of questions about its missi…