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Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…n for sainthood. In the nineteenth century, several American-born women of African descent also became nuns in Europe. Barred from becoming fully-professed sisters in white and indigenous congregations in the Americas because of their race, these black women crossed the Atlantic Ocean to embrace the religious state. While the majority of these women were extremely-light skinned and could pass for white, at least three dark-skinned, U.S.-born black…

Gay Rights a Go in Chattanooga

By Michael Schulson

…ry fast. Chattanooga does lean Democrat, in no small part because it’s 35% African-American. But as anyone familiar with Southern politics can tell you, a city of Southern Democrats is not necessarily a city of social liberals. And, in light of perceptions about a lack of African-American support for gay rights, that should be especially true of support for gay rights in Chattanooga. I grew up in Chattanooga, leaving for college in 2008. As a kid…

Can We Ask Mitt About Mormonism’s Racist Past?

By Darron T. Smith

…e years and well into adulthood. It seems reasonable to wonder whether the Republican candidate received negative messages about the character and disposition of people of African descent, and where he stands on it now. Obery M. Hendricks Jr. remarked that, “at no time has Mitt Romney ever publicly indicated that he seriously questioned the divine inspiration of the Book of Mormon’s teachings about race, much less that he has repudiated them.” A…

Fear of a New Jewishness

By Jacob S. Dorman

…t, perhaps more remarkable, 34% do not! My work documenting the history of African Americans who have adopted variants of Judaism over the last 120 years demonstrates that Jewish identification can change over the course of decades. The “Black Israelite” movements I study began with Holiness Christian churches in the 1890s, with strong influences from Biblical literalism, freemasonry, and Anglo-Israelism, but in the course of only three decades ma…

Election Takeaway: Fake God Talk Doesn’t Cut It with Americans

By Anthea Butler

…tion of the office of the President of the United States simply because an African American with a dual heritage and a white mother cracked and decoded the American dream. While President Obama won decisively, he also must be held to account. Reelection does not mean that the president cannot be judged. The drone war, the continued level of poverty (especially in the African American community), and the injustices of Guantanamo Bay are just a f…

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…amily? Where is the goodness and justice of God for Marissa Alexander, the African-American woman who is presently serving a 20-year prison sentence for shooting a warning shot to ward off her abusive husband from attacking her? She “stood her ground,” shoots and kills no one, but gets 20 years in prison (we’re still waiting to see if Florida’s governor will commute her sentence or if this will remain a travesty of justice); Zimmerman shoots and i…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…obs for local residents who desperately need them. As a faith leader in an African-American congregation with a social gospel history, Jones was deeply involved in that struggle, and it was through that work in DC—a long way, both literally and metaphorically, from Bentonville—that he was connected with OUR Wal-Mart and their campaign for Wal-Mart workers. For him it was an easy decision to get involved and to travel the country, organizing with t…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…ociologist and author of “The Global Sexual Revolution: The Destruction of Freedom on the Name of Freedom,” is one of the campaign’s prime movers. Kuby, a Catholic convert, says “gender theory” will lead to tyranny. She says communism protect Eastern European countries from the sexual revolution and hopes they will now “become a stronghold of resistance in the European Union.” Kuby’s daughter Sophia runs the socialconservative group European Digni…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…Uganda, authored Politicial Research Associates’ 2012 report, “Colonizing African Values: How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Politics in Africa,” which among other things examines the African activities of the American Center for Law and Justice, the legal organization established by Pat Robertson and run by Jay Sekulow with the assistance of his son Jordan. A more recent article by PRA researcher Jandira Queiroz discusses the launch of…

Two and a Half Men Child Star Calls Show “Filth”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r. It’s fine to notice that you enjoy a type of worship you associate with African American churches. (In point of fact, there is actually not only one African American style of worship, but let’s bracket that.) But when you say, at around 1:20: “I was looking to go to a church with an all-black congregation. I guess you could say I was looking for, like, a black gospel theme? I dunno. I like black people! And uh…[laughter] I’m not afraid to say i…