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Religious Freedom Manifesto Calls for Compromise and Civility—What’s So Wrong With That?

By Frederick Clarkson

…h the Institute. When the big day finally arrived, two of the signatories, Charles Haynes and Oliver Thomas, announced the Charter in an op-ed in USA Today. The piece followed the Charter formula, including uplifting prose about what the Framers of the Constitution and the First Amendment intended about religious freedom, what it has meant in our history, and might mean for our future. But they make the same error as the Charter: They paraphrased…

Billy Graham Was More Like White America’s Surrogate Savior Than “America’s Pastor”

By Peter Laarman

…would be an insult to earlier figures who really knew how to use a pulpit: Charles Grandison Finney, Henry Ward Beecher, etc., as well as to Graham-contemporary preachers of real spiritual genius like Gardner C. Taylor. I would place Graham differently. I would describe him as white America’s surrogate savior. Although not personally vain about his looks, the young Billy Graham surely knew that he bore a striking resemblance to pictorial represent…

New Book on Trump and Evangelicals Gets it Mostly Right

By Greg Carey

…f evangelical progressivism in the nineteenth century, with a spotlight on Charles Finney’s inclusion of women and opposition to slavery. One could call attention to the interracial outbreak of Pentecostalism at Azusa Street. But that story is highly selective. It has almost nothing to do with Southern evangelicalism. The very term “Southern evangelicalism” poses problems. A huge chunk of what we call the evangelical movement today would have iden…

With James Cone’s Death Comes the Death of Black Theology

By Anthony B. Pinn

…intellectual-professional struggles of figures such as Cone, Katie Cannon, Charles Long, Jacquelyn Grant, Peter Paris, J. Deotis Roberts, and so on. While disregard of difference still has a stronghold in the Academy, it’s now much more common to find courses on black theology (and scholarship related to black theology) in curricular offerings (and the stuff of positive tenure and promotion decisions). This is not to let academic departments, admi…

Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

By Peter Laarman

…ation of witnessing the founder/CEO of a leading corporate polluter (think Charles Koch) speak at the anniversary celebration and re-consecration of the 250-year-old Dutch Reformed church he serves in Upstate New York. This corporate criminal has been subsidizing the town’s megachurch (Abundant Life) and is even responsible for sparsely-attended First Reformed’s continuing existence as a kind of theme-park satellite (Toller is aware that the kids…

With James Cone’s Death Comes the Death of Black Theology

By Anthony B. Pinn

…intellectual-professional struggles of figures such as Cone, Katie Cannon, Charles Long, Jacquelyn Grant, Peter Paris, J. Deotis Roberts, and so on. While disregard of difference still has a stronghold in the Academy, it’s now much more common to find courses on black theology (and scholarship related to black theology) in curricular offerings (and the stuff of positive tenure and promotion decisions). This is not to let academic departments, admi…

Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

By Peter Laarman

…ation of witnessing the founder/CEO of a leading corporate polluter (think Charles Koch) speak at the anniversary celebration and re-consecration of the 250-year-old Dutch Reformed church he serves in Upstate New York. This corporate criminal has been subsidizing the town’s megachurch (Abundant Life) and is even responsible for sparsely-attended First Reformed’s continuing existence as a kind of theme-park satellite (Toller is aware that the kids…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…ave a weakness for plagiarism, or an Episcopalian may have a hankering for Charles Keating’s cash. These aren’t exceptions in the study of religion, they are the rules. Men and women believe even as they struggle, relentlessly, to behave. So when I say that John McCain may not believe in God, I do so with serious thought, and with no small indifference. It matters very little to me (as a voter, as a thinker, and as a believer) that John McCain doe…

The Forgotten History Behind Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Terrorism

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…, helped French King Francois besiege the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in Nice. Thousands of Tatar Muslims helped to fight for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw in 1656, and in 1791, the Polish Constitution granted them representation in the parliament. In 1853, Muslims fought for their respective countries in the Crimean War, and they would go on to serve the allies in World War I and World War II—by the hundreds of thousands. But Musl…

When White Terrorism Goes Unpunished: Trump’s Acquittal and the Persistence of Anti-Blackness

By Peter Laarman and Charlene Sinclair

…6 went unpunished after strolling over from the House chamber to beat Sen. Charles Sumner senseless on account of the Massachusetts senator’s fearless condemnation of the “peculiar institution.” And how can the current buzz decrying the impeachment managers’ decision to not call witnesses be anything less than a hollow performance of righteous indignation? For real, people: What additional witnesses would be needed to affirm the presence of contin…