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Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…surveying recent sociological data gathered by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life and taking stock of the differentiated landscape of contemporary black America, Glaude concludes, “The Black Church, as we’ve known it or imagined it, is dead.” This conclusion flies in the face of a forty plus-year-old socially engineered belief that Christianity in black America is fundamentally progressive and transformative; that Christia…

The Biblical Money Code!

By Gordon Haber

…“Biblical Money Code” appears as a fake news article, or “advertorial,” on Newsmax, the semi-fake news website. Hyman in fact seems to work for the website, although his actual role is unclear—a recent bio says that he is part of its “Financial Brain Trust.” “A wise man looks well into a matter,” Proverbs, and Hyman, reminds us. While I wouldn’t make any claims to wisdom, I will say that I have looked into it and conclude that it would be foolish…

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

By Christopher Douglas

…s argument that evangelical fiction “shapes” the culture is significantly true: while I read This Present Darkness and the Left Behind series as more indebted to apocalyptic thinking than Silliman does, he is certainly correct that their cultural politics shaped evangelicals’ sense of embattlement and dichotomous thinking. But in other examples, the argument might be better phrased as reflecting rather than shaping elements of evangelical culture….

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…idis, “A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right,” Religion Dispatches, March 2, 2022. [17] Zygar, “Russia’s War on Woke;” Helge Blakkisrud, “Blurring the Boundary between Civic and Ethnic: The Kremlin’s New Approach to National Identity under Putin’s Third Term,” in The New Russian Nationalism, ed. Helge Blakkisrud and Pål Kolstø (Edinburgh University Press,…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rts to decriminalize homosexuality, anti-gay religious leaders opposed the ruling, but the country’s largest newspaper praised it as courageous and urged lawmakers to address discrimination against LGBT discrimination as a human rights issue. The Daily Beast looked at a range of reactions from Muslims. On the day of the Court ruling, the self-declared Islamic State released a video showing four men being thrown off a roof to their deaths. The Mirr…

It’s Not Her, It’s You.

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…l, or as able-bodied, or as rich, etc.) as possible. Sarah Sentilles’ book Breaking Up With God is written in a voice that evidently struck some reviewers as being “different from us.” Some of them, in response, remarked on her appearance and guessed at her age. Some of them found it inconceivable that her difference could be anything but a defect, and they said so. Sentilles, in turn, caught more than a whiff of paternalistic sexism in some of t…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…borders) for labor. Whether or not they gain traction by claiming that the stock market and banks are controlled by Jews depends on whether people of goodwill are able to offer a more compelling vision of change. With Obama in the White House, I think we can expect more of the same, plus some. Some White nationalists will focus on tending to their current base—which is not inconsiderable. They will continue to push for secessionist-style White enc…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ate China and Vietnam, where dramatic market reforms occur within unreconstructed communist political structures, and where LGBT people have carved out increasing space in the private sphere, but LGBT human rights – as rights, as markers of an independent civil society – remain off the table? Or will Cuba’s future resemble that of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe, where the incomplete transition to democracy fueled the rise of violent hom…

Václav Havel: Democracy as Spiritual Discipline

By Peter Montgomery

…arketplace and morality are mutually exclusive. Precisely the opposite is true: the marketplace can work only if it has its own morality — a morality generally enshrined in laws, regulations, traditions, experiences, customs — in the rules of the game, to put it simply. No game can be played without rules. Havel told citizens that they held immense responsibility for holding institutions and individuals accountable: The law is undoubtedly an instr…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ou may well want to get your own back. But there is more at work here. The BBC Today programme on Monday brought on Patrick Strudwick, who is the LGBT editor of Buzzfeed. Mr Strudwick was made furiously righteous by the fact that Dolce himself is gay. His attitude proved, he said, “the internalised homophobia of gay people”, for which (of course) society is to blame. “Their subconscious is kind of poisoned”: gays who think that a child is best bro…