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You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…support him’ says Kathy Khang, a Christian writer and speaker based in the Chicago area. When asked about the outspoken remarks of popular Christian writers and speakers like Jen Hatmaker, Khang says that she wishes they had spoken up when Trump was making derogatory comments about immigrants and African Americans: “It was great when evangelical women started speaking out. It’s just unfortunate that it took them so long and that it took that [the…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…o deny, or to recognize the possibility of confirming or denying those thousands of Muslims President Trump repeatedly insists he saw cheering in New Jersey as the Twin Towers fell, for instance. Likewise, we’d have no recourse but to take the President at his word that two people were shot at a political event in Chicago, or that a protestor at one of his own rallies was actually an agent of ISIS. When commentators on the right cautioned, during…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cy Shall Kiss: LGBT Catholics in the Age of Pope Francis,” will be held in Chicago April 28-30. At the ultra-traditionalist Catholic newspaper The Remnant, editor Michael Matt praises Polish President Andrzej Duda for telling a television reporter that the country will not give in to pressure from other European countries to change its constitutional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The Remnant adds a comment decrying t…

What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed

By Gary Dorrien

…vided the social justice theology that the civil rights movement spoke and sang, leaving an immense legacy. But the black social gospel is rarely accorded the status of a tradition, let alone an important one. King did not come from nowhere. Since the 1980s, scholars have emphasized that King grew up in Southern black Baptist religion and he exaggerated the influence of his white liberal seminary education when he described his intellectual develo…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…s, and concrete efforts as activists encountering popular suspicion, state-sanctioned persecution, and prejudiced legislation on a new scale. *** As an American LGBT Muslim—under attack both for being queer and for being Muslim—what is your greatest fear right now? How are you managing this fear? Faisal: My greatest fear is that the political right in this country have elected someone who is, one by one, installing the most extreme xenophobes, ant…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…ading scorer in all of Division 1 NCAA basketball; never mind the NBA. And Chicago-native Parker, a high school senior and power forward, made the cover of Sports Illustrated, then announced his intention to play for Duke in 2013–2014. Here at RD, we were too absorbed in the week-by-week of the long election season to cover Fredette, Te’o, and Parker—a pity, really. 4. Mormon feminists and allies organize worldwide “Pants to Church” Sunday to rais…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hing,” said Anthony Kreis, an attorney and visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “At its worst, it’s a signal to churches.” It’s important to remember than an executive order doesn’t have the full force of law (or the power to overturn existing statutes), and even if it did, all this order really does is affirm existing precedent around employer-provided reproductive healthcare—and direct the IRS to continue to ignore the Jo…

“Exvangelical” Podcast: Safe Space for Those “Living In, Leaving, or Coming to Terms With” Evangelicalism

By Chrissy Stroop

…oices. In 2016, in the same month as the GOP convention, Blake Chastain, a Chicago-based writer and creator of the Exvangelical podcast, set out to create a platform and community for those who “have been hurt in God’s name.” An ex-evangelical from Indiana who attended Indiana Wesleyan University during George W. Bush’s presidency, Chastain conceived of the show in 2014, when, in his words, “through personal relationships and connections via Faceb…

Pence’s Prayer Breakfast Appearance Underscores Fractured American Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…d Leo of the Federalist Society, Austin Ruse of C-FAM, former Senator Rick Santorum, and conservative organizations like the Knights of Columbus and Americans United for Life. In fact, President George W. Bush, along with various prominent Catholic prelates, headlined the event from 2005 until 2008, including an appearance with Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput in 2004. The first post-Bush breakfast in 2009 featured the conservative Catholic dream…

Jennifer Knapp and Me: Coming Out While Evangelical

By Suzanna Krivulskaya

…formed a song from the album at a Campus Crusade for Christ meeting. Knapp sang about being broken and in need of God’s grace. The missionaries had instructed me to write and rehearse what they called a “testimony”—a three-minute story of my conversion; the more dramatic, the better. Knapp provided the soundtrack to my life as a young, zealous believer. I wanted to be broken in ways she described, so that God’s salvific work would manifest more vi…