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Richard Land Steps Down, But Not Out of the Culture Wars

By Aaron Weaver

…e politely pointed out that not one of Land’s twenty employees was African-American—as late as 2009, the highest ranking African-American at the SBC headquarters in Nashville was the head janitor. While passing a racial reconciliation resolution was clearly a top priority for Land, there is little proof that actual racial justice was anywhere near the top of his agenda. Without question, Land will be remembered for his important roles in A…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…y.” The fact of the matter is, not so much has changed since 1967. African Americans under the first African-American president have watched the bottom fall out of the black middle class. What will the 2012 election change about this situation? Perhaps it is time for the churches to begin to “mic check” MLK’s words on poverty, in addressing all of our branches of government, in order to bring about Kings’s Beloved Community. Kerry Pimblott______…

Making College Great Again: Evangelical Outsiders in the Age of Trump

By Adam Laats

…nsisted, “A good, Bible-believing Christian is by nature a good, patriotic American.” This profound sense of defiant loyalty to old-fashioned Americanism helps explain white evangelical enthusiasm for Trump and it has always been embedded deep in the bones of evangelical colleges and universities. For those familiar with this history, recent moves against skeptical faculty members come as no surprise. In 2015, administrator Randy Beckum was chasti…

Dangerous Religion

By Gary Laderman

…lum era, white Protestant males continued the wanton devastation of Native American tribes as the American territories expanded; inflicted horrible suffering on slaves by tearing families apart, raping innocent women, and killing blacks as if they were not human beings; murdered Joseph Smith and harassed early Mormon followers; and discriminated against Catholics in both subtle and overtly hostile acts of violence. • In the late nineteenth and ear…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…bel, it turns out, was responsible for ousting Hargis from the Tulsa-based American Christian College (founded to teach “anti-communist patriotic Americanism”) after Hargis was embroiled in a sex scandal; Hargis was accused of having sex with four male and one female students; the woman, it turned out, married one of the men in a ceremony officiated by Hargis, and the couple found out on their honeymoon that he had had sex with both of them. But i…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…law. Jerry Cox of the Family Council Action Committee of Arkansas told the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow, that “you don’t have to be a rocket scientist or social scientist to know that the best place for a child to grow up is in a home with a married mother and father—a stable home like that. Anything that departs from that moves in the wrong direction. We all know that.” AFA Boycotts Pepsi: Despite requests from the American Family Ass…

This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right

By Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

…nstitutions of this network is essential for understanding the rise of the New Right in a period in which they have lost both the demographic and cultural battles over American public life. The Times story offers little information on Seid, the owner of Tripp Lite, a company that produces surge protectors. At age 90, he’s kept an intentionally low profile, even as he’s been widely known in Republican circles as a major donor to conservative causes…

From Cairo to the Bible Belt: What US Christianity Must Face for Peace in the Middle East

By Anthea Butler

…ersity with just a few modifications and replacing the Qur’anic verses for New Testament verses. We need a healthy discussion about religious freedom, extremism, and women’s rights in America. Too often Americans consider the radical and the fundamentalist to be overseas. We have had home-grown terrorists; remember, Timothy McVeigh or last week’s execution of George Tiller. The stakes for President Obama and the nation are not only political peace…

Jim DeMint: First Great Awakening Won American Revolution

By Daniel Schultz

…won before we ever got into a fight with the British. It was a spiritual renewal.” Funny, that’s not how I remember my Intro to American History class running. Also: “People are seeing this massive government growing and they’re realizing that it’s the government that’s hurting us and I think they’re turning back to God in effect is our salvation and government is not our salvation and in fact more and more people see government as the problem and…

Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars

By Paul Wallace

…gh to bestow upon us some rubble that resembles a cross.” Predictably, FOX News had a field day. Glenn Beck called the lawsuit “hateful.” Mike Huckabee mixed it up with American Atheists president David Silverman. And no one in the center cared, because that’s what supposed to happen. The missiles flew overhead. We yawned tremendously. Then, into this scene stepped a most unlikely player: Jon Stewart. In a hilarious three-minute clip, Stewart made…