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Fundraising for Kyle Rittenhouse Reveals American Christianity’s White Supremacy Problem

By Andrew L. Seidel

…t in America, the most popular depictions of Jesus feature a blond-haired, blue-eyed, white-skinned fellow gazing into the distance. The KKK bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. on September 15, 1963, killing four little girls, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair. In one of the stained-glass windows that was not entirely destroyed an image of a faceless Jesus remained. When James B…

Is Islam Eco-Friendly?

By Amina Wadud

…too check before trash pick up. We have really nifty recycle containers in blue or grey. In fact, the cost of trash pick up is related to the size of your actual trash containers, in brown. I always had the smallest ones because I’ve been a maniac about recycling for more than two decades. My children grew up in a house where every time something recyclable was put in the wrong container, I would take it out, hold it in the air, and repeat the sam…

The Birmingham Church Bombing: How Will We Remember?

By Edward J. Blum

…oes and matching purse, a charm bracelet, a tiny two-inch child’s Bible, a blue floral handkerchief, and the jagged piece of concrete removed from her skull.” When one of the students asked if Mr. McNair had forgiven the white supremacists who took his daughter’s life, his answer was righteous rage. God, McNair said, “would destroy Alabama by wiping it clean with His hand.” In the realm of our public memories of the civil rights movement, could an…

The Problem with Ayn Rand Isn’t Atheism

By Sarah Posner

…on to become a Republican, and North Carolina’s Heath Shuler, a prominent Blue Dog who recently spoke at the Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Wall conference for pastors, where he insisted that if Christians “had provided for people in our community,” then we “wouldn’t’ve needed a debate on health care.” The Family Research Council, incidentally, has signaled its full support of the Republicans’ budget-slashing. But at least Shuler’s not…

Glamour, Nostalgia, and Coming of Age: The Prom As Sacred

By Kelly J. Baker

…mentary moment, we had come of age while wearing strappy sandals, electric blue dresses, glitter, too-large tuxes, and enough hair spray to constitute walking fire hazards. The prom was a ritual that marked our voyage to adulthood, and it contained all the trappings of religious experience: the rite of passage, the parameters of dress, the constrained space of the ritual, authority, liminality, transformation, particular rituals, community (imagin…

What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…dramatic rise of right-wing Christian movements that lobbied for Sabbath “blue laws,” the prohibition of alcohol, prayer and bible teaching in schools, immigration bans, and, most egregiously to Gage, the call for a constitutional amendment that would rewrite the First Amendment and eliminate the separation of church and state. Along the way, strange bedfellows emerged. Among these movements the National Reform Association (NRA), founded in 1863…

Of Personhood and the Pill: What’s at Stake?

By Atlee Parks Breland

…y and undeservedly fortunate, that “practice” cycle concluded in a pair of blue-eyed daughters, followed by a younger brother who came along as we pondered a return to that unpleasant waiting room. My children are five and three now, and grocery-store strangers no longer coo over the tiny babies before asking if they’re “natural.” This November, though, those same strangers will be voting on a constitutional amendment which will decide what treatm…

Easter in the Mountains: Christianity vs. The Call of the Wild

By Peter Laarman

…ecessity of communicating, especially to the young, that this bright green-blue Earth is our only home. And that it’s so alive—and so much bigger than us—that a little reverence and humility wouldn’t be a bad idea. Once I laughed at how the Unitarians had written vernal awakening words to replace the original stanzas of “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today.” I don’t laugh anymore. Whatever God is doing to lift us higher, God is definitely not doing it…

Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit

By Sarah Posner

…vangelicals. While few adopted the Reconstructionist theology wholesale, a number of Christian Right leaders were tantalized by the idea of restoring America to their view of the America as a Christian nation ordained by God and under the leadership of Godly men. The result was a broad tendency that critics call ‘Dominionism’ which comes in both hard and soft varieties in terms of theocratic authoritarianism. Stephen McDowell, Providence’s co-foun…

Compare the Midterms to Presidential Elections and an Interesting Story Emerges

By Daniel Schultz

…t mean his base is shriveling up? Probably not. As Pew says, because these numbers are roughly in line with other elections, it most likely means evangelicals are reverting to mean. Trump’s yuge win with them in 2016 may turn out to have been not much more than a blip on the screen. At the same time, even though evangelical support for Republicans declined somewhat between 2014 and 2018, in terms of raw numbers, many more evangelicals voted this y…