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Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…m were gathered outside the church. So in the middle of a peaceful worship service, a prayer service for the city of Charlottesville, I was unable to be present in the work that I had been brought in to do because of safety concerns. Along with that, a member of the so-called alt-right had infiltrated our worship service. And so there were lots of things happening at one time. Security became a real concern; not just for those of us who were in cl…

If it’s Really About “Religious Freedom,” Why Mention Just One Belief?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ce of an acceptable limitation of religious freedom: nobody can be refused service based on their identity—even if the service provider is religiously opposed to or refuses to acknowledge that identity. So let’s call it what it is: a challenge to where we draw the line on religious freedom, not whether or not we have it. That lowers the stakes considerably, and is far more accurate… And seeking accuracy in language was where this whole conversatio…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…d say I spend too much time out there. It is a slow-motion, shape-shifting deltaic masterpiece where water and land have clashed for millennia to form wetlands, marshes, ridges, barrier islands, and bayous able to adapt to the creative and destructive hand of God. Also for centuries, people of Native American, European, and African descent have lived on land and with water in ways that flex to the region’s geographic mutability. It is a place and…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…grandma’s way of handling money. —from Dave Ramsey’s The Great Recovery website The Great Recovery for an economy stalled with lingering high unemployment and stagnant income growth starts with acknowledging the Great Mistake of the New Deal, Christian megastar financial advisor Dave Ramsey told a rapt audience last Thursday evening in Nashville. “Socialists” mistakenly believe FDR got us out of the Depression while “capitalists” know it was actua…

What Can Fascination With ‘Sister Cindy’ Teach Us About the ‘None’ Generation?

By Chad Bauman

…40-year campus ministry veteran and now darling of ironic Gen Z TikTok, visited Butler University recently. Earlier in the day, she’d projected a 3:30 pm arrival, and within minutes of the announcement half a dozen students in a class I teach at the same time had emailed me, many in breathless all-caps, asking if they could attend. They knew I’d say yes. It was a beautiful spring day during the last full week of classes at the end of the great Co…

Student Expelled from Sorority for Transphobia Illustrates the Problem with Evangelical Understanding of Pluralism

By Chrissy Stroop

…and only the sorority, Alpha Phi International Women’s Fraternity and its Delta Tau chapter at Louisiana State University, got it right. Emily Hines, the undergraduate in question, was expelled from her sorority for mocking U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, an openly transgender public figure, in a transphobic TikTok video in which Hines sported a baby blue Alpha Phi sweatshirt. For its part, the leadership of Hines’s sorority re…

East Lansing Demonstrates How Not to Respond to Anti-LGBT “Christian” Businesses

By Sunnivie Brydum

…l under the City of East Lansing’s non-discrimination ordinance and which, officials contended, violated the spirit of the farmers market. East Lansing officials repeatedly encouraged Country Mill Farms to “voluntarily elect not to attend the market” for the rest of the season. Country Mill Farms declined, and continued to staff its booth at the East Lansing Farmers Market. Between the end of the 2016 farmers market season and the beginning of the…

As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

…f seeing as many Americans as possible get vaccinated, particularly as the Delta strain surges, it’s worth understanding what might motivate even the most resistant populations to take that step. The PRRI report indicates that religious intervention most likely influenced the uptick in vaccinations among the white evangelical population from March to June, from 45% to 56%, with a concomitant decline in hesitancy from 28% to 20%. But the report doe…

Americans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle

By Michael J. Altman

…. Rev. Michael O. Minor is fighting fat from his pulpit in the Mississippi Delta. He may want to mix in a few sermons on marriage. The Bible Belt has a higher divorce rate than the Northeast, researchers say. Some rabbis are getting help from comedy writers for their High Holy Day sermons. Glenn Beck (remember him?) held his rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday. More than 1,000 folks (mostly Christians) showed up. For personal use when the comments sec…

Did the “Real America” Elect Trump?

By Paul Harvey

…elites revered and paid homage to “authentic culture” from the Mississippi Delta or from Bristol, Virginia. But never mind. Bubble is as Bubble does. After Tuesday’s election, coastal elites have been busy opining that “we” should be empathetic towards heartland Trump voters. “We” should feel their pain. We should stop shaming Trump supporters. We should stop making fun of their religion. Now in the Rocky Mountain West, neither heartland exactly n…