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In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…ts are written all the time. I can’t count the number of statements and petitions I’ve signed over the last decade about one issue or another. This is why we knew we could not, we would not, simply offer a few words proclaiming our disgust. We wanted actionable items, matters that we could take up within our local communities and the academy. Already, we’ve followed up this statement by a discussion with the Association of Theological Schools. The…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…n the party platform or nomination process. He could press for a $15/hour minimum wage plank, for example, or try to get the Democratic party to abandon closed primaries. He’ll have to be selective—he won’t be able to shoot the moon—but there’s every reason to think Sanders and his movement will be strongly influential. There are any number of priorities Sanders could choose from, of course. God knows it’s not like our nation isn’t in need of refo…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…and growing more diffuse, even as it remains a potent force in American politics.” While some of the picks seem obvious (Marjorie Dannenfelser of the anti-choice group Susan B. Anthony List, or Jim Daly, the new head of Focus on the Family, or Robert George mastermind of the Manhattan Declaration) legal scholar Melissa Rogers is most decidedly not a member of the Christian right. Rogers, who has worked for the pro-church-state-separation group the…

From Licking Floors to Praying for an Inept Government, Churches React to C-19

By Daniel Schultz

…reached a fiery sermon for the small congregation, denouncing the Trump administration for spending money on a border wall while cutting public health teams that might have otherwise been ready to respond to the pandemic. “Yes, we will come through the coronavirus! Yes, we will come through the city quarantines,” he avowed. “Yes, we will come through an inept government that can’t handle a real crisis. Yes, we will come through an election season,…

Size Matters According to New Study

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…g to say almost anything—which is not quite as virtuous. The latest scientific salvo fired across the bow of religion concerns, of all things, the size of the religious brain. Here’s the storyline as reported in the media: “Study suggests ‘born again’ believers have smaller brains” (USA Today) “Study suggests ‘born again’ believers have smaller brains” (Beliefnet) “Born-again Christians have smaller brains” (Houston Chronicle) In fac…

Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?

By Caroline Matas

…nd their nineteen children, whose series of Discovery and TLC reality television shows from 2004 to 2021 depicted their fundamentalist religious beliefs as the quirky but ultimately wholesome glue that kept their supersized family uncommonly close and serene. The docuseries details the consecutive series of scandals that upended the Duggars’ “shiny, happy” image—including eldest son Josh’s 2021 conviction for receiving and possessing child sexual…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…latter, 71% to 21%. Though the results offer some good news about the priorities of the American people, at that point in the pandemic at least, the choice is a false one. With well over 100,000 deaths as of publication, more than the number of service members killed in World War I, America is living through an apocalyptic moment. But it’s also an apocalypse in the literal sense of an unveiling or disclosure—an unmasking. The coronavirus has unmas…

Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

…and stricter denomination. Fortunately, we don’t have to imagine. This Religion News Service piece by Kathryn Post serves it up on a platter, discussing the breakaway aspirations of the Alliance of Reformed Churches. Helpfully, the article includes the ARC logo for identification purposes. I want to talk about Post’s story in some detail to inaugurate what I hope will be a series of columns dedicated to media criticism of religion journalism. We…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

As a horrifying humanitarian crisis unfolds in Palestine/Israel, observers have been alarmed by the Israeli leadership’s deployment of religious rhetoric and colonialist talking points in its response to the Hamas attacks. On October 28th, for example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referenced Bible passages in which God promises and enacts a total annihilation of the Amalekites—every man, woman, and child: “You must remember what Amalek has d…

Christian Epistle on Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…ng a recent event on Islamophobia in Eastern Washington (in very close proximity to the parts of Idaho that have the greatest concentration of white supremacists in America), I met a number of Christian pastors and activists. Afterwards, a conservative evangelical told me he felt that Islamophobia and Christophobia were similar (I guess it’s better than denying bigotry exists at all). I also received an e-mail from a participant in the event who c…