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How Biblical ‘Chosenness’ Has Justified Violence, Misogyny, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

By Peter Laarman

…with it. Ours is a settler-colonial society, but so is (or was) apartheid South Africa. These two Calvinist-formed juggernauts of racial violence and displacement were both self-anointed New Israels where, as in “old” Israel itself, a sense of divine chosenness and murderous force unleashed against indigenes have been linked inextricably. For that matter, one might wish that Coogan had specifically invoked the term “settler colonialism,” especial…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…” Christianity of the Byzantine empire in modern Europe, Turkey, and North Africa. In his book on Syriac Christian sources on early Islam, Envisioning Islam, Michael Penn has demonstrated that the boundaries between Christianity and Islam remained porous in the East into the 9th century. As they adapted to the changing realities of Muslim rule, Eastern Christians increasingly sought to articulate their own identities in contrast to Muslims (and ot…

White Christian Nationalism May Not Be Religious, But It Is Christian

By Murali Balaji

…ewish nationalism in Israel; Islamism in parts of Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia; Hindu nationalism in parts of India; Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand—that have grown in recent years are grounded in theology. They’re all connected by a shared sense of grievance and an imagined community based on assumed shared ideals. The New Zealand terrorist might not have been religious per se, but he was 100 percent d…

Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…, notes that red-colored food and drinks draws upon the diasporic roots of African-American and American foodways. Enslaved Africans sent to Texas, the westernmost of the former Confederacy and cotton kingdom, were drawn from Yoruba and Kongo people for which red held spiritual meaning of sacrifice, transition, and power. In his insightful New York Times article, “Hot Links and Red Drinks: The Rich Food Tradition of Juneteenth” soul-food expert Ad…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…trained in the Global North, they come back to Algeria or Guinea Bissau or South Africa or Ghana. Yes, they’ve read their Hegel, Marx, and Kant, but they’re not using theory to write a peer-reviewed journal article. They study theory to ask the questions that need answers in order to remake the world. Speaking of remaking the world, I want to get us talking about how you see organizers and researchers upsetting this far-right agenda. Can you descr…

Both the Joy and the Uproar Over the Pope’s Blessings for LGBTQ Catholics are Small Potatoes Compared to this Age-Old Church Problem

By Mary E. Hunt

…s, including many African bishops (with the exception of the ones in North Africa) have rejected the directive out of hand as heretical. Fraught as all of this is, blessings are small potatoes compared with the challenges to papal authority by conservatives and the conundrum of papal fiats for progressives. The document begins, “The supplicating trust of the faithful People of God receives the gift of blessing that flows from the Heart of Christ t…

Does the Right Even Know Why it’s so Threatened by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…time is football (or “hand-egg” if you’re reading from anywhere in Europe, Africa, Asia or South America). Kelce is considered “one of the greatest tight ends of all time,” which may or may not be true because that information is from Wikipedia and I’m not one to question Wikipedia here. Anyway, the Right is outraged! I’m also not here to explain to you fans who Swift or Kelce are. You don’t have to convince me—I’m sure they’re both great and that…

Still from the set of “The Exorcist: Believer" shows six people surrounding a bound, possessed girl all attempting to exorcise the demon.

Ecumenical ‘Exorcist’ Sequel Reflects Profound Cultural Changes Since the Catholic Original

By Joseph Laycock

…people around an individual, to uniting people around a particular church. Today, exorcism centers around different sorts of alignments, including political views (exorcists tend to be conservative) and attitudes toward the supernatural. In the first century CE, exorcism signaled the charismatic authority of the exorcist. The gospel writers recorded Jesus casting out demons because this was evidence that he was the messiah. Similarly, figures like…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…and gender to put it mildly and was one of the architects of apartheid in South Africa. Several people tweeted sarcastically that even Kuyper would be “too conservative” to qualify for his namesake award, and it would appear that they’re correct. A member of the PTS faculty I corresponded with expressed the issue was not so much with Keller receiving the award but more with there being a Kuyper award at all. Institutions with storied histories su…

As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…nt to Thanksgiving is simply residue of the relative respite that enslaved Africans gained during the holiday season from some of their labors, however minimal. According to the African-American Registry, “In October 1863, months after signing the Emancipation Proclamation earlier in the year; President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation to officially celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Before the proclamation, Thanksgiving was also a period wh…