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Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…the past that had kept North Carolina from being fully captured in the Old South (or the old South Africa for that matter). They will tell you that these politicians are not Republicans but reactionaries who fear a multicultural progressive future for North Carolina. Whether in fact the emerging diversity of the state’s population will create a more robust democracy is an open question, but the current legislature does not seem willing to take tha…

Public Religion in a Post-Christian Age, Graduation Edition

By David Gushee

…on graduated from a formerly Baptist liberal arts college also deep in the South. His graduation exercises, including a baccalaureate service, were characterized by a multi-faith ethos. The baccalaureate was especially striking, with readings and rituals from Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian sources. The address from the university president emphasized the centrality of “the spirit” rather than just material success. The commencement…

Obama, MLK, Not “Nice” Enough to Moderates?

By Paul Harvey

…vement. He made little or no appeal to the mass of white Christians in the South—the Baptists, the evangelicals of Southern Presbyterianism, the growing numbers associated with the Pentecostal and Holiness movements. Instead he threw his energy into attracting mainline and socially liberal churchmen: Methodists, various Lutheran denominations, moderates and liberals in the Southern Presbyterian church and, especially, the Episcopalians. … [In] the…

Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…een a very long time coming, from Eurocentrism to the Church of the Global South. Not to mention his reputation as an advocate for the poor, emphasizing the Christian Gospel of love, washing the feet of AIDS victims, and more. The new pope’s legacy will stand him in good stead as well, since his parents were Italians, and he speaks Italian fluently—not a bad thing for a pope—even as he has never served in the Vatican curia, the focus of much criti…

The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin

By Elizabeth Drescher

…igious experience certainly provided much food for thought. Catholicism in South America goaded him to think about his own Christian belief and the justice of Christian warfare in the region. Natural disasters and animal pain troubled him with regard to the problem of evil. And the English Christian missions made him wonder how humans improve morally. The seeds were planted for an evolutionary view of religion. I think he already came to suspect d…

Great White Men, Again?: On Lincoln and Our Civil Religion

By Paul Harvey

…that led to the quote-unquote ‘noble cause,’ and the rise of the Klan and Southern self-protection societies. The abuse of the South after they were defeated was a catastrophe, and helped lead to just unimaginable, untellable human suffering. He has since partially apologized for and retracted those comments, insisting that he should have clarified that he was talking about the congressional refusal to fund the finding and burying of Confederate…

How to Craft a D.I.Y. Old Testament

By Benjamin Morse

…al dissertation on “The Bible and Its Modern Methods,” my sister-in-law in South Africa adopted a Xhosa girl and asked us to be godparents. I had always made my own Christmas cards and decided this child deserved more than a trip to Baby Gap. As the only alternative emerged—to handcraft an Old Testament for her—I realized I needed to find a way to represent characters that could be seen as either white or black. This gift became a mock-up for the…

The Fall of D’Souza’s Star?

By Sarah Posner

…peech honoraria places him in the “top tier” of Christian speakers, was in South Carolina to speak at a Baptist church, which was hosting “high-profile Christians speak on defending the faith and applying a Christian worldview to their lives.” (Cue guffaws here.) Smith describes one conference organizer, Alex McFarland, being “distressed” at the behavior of their celebrity speaker. According to Smith, D’Souza told McFarland that he had “recently”…

An Historic Meeting: African and African Diaspora Women Convene in Ghana for First-Ever Religion Conference

By Rosetta E. Ross

…e activities. Absence of representatives from Southern and Eastern Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia-Oceania, and Antarctica challenged the meeting’s full identity as “African” and “African Diasporan.” As conference organizers, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Evelyn Parker, and I began and ended the meeting lamenting constraints that prevented wider representation and anticipating broader participation of women on the continent and in the dia…

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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…fear Europe’s failures will be revealed. There is no denying the European south is suffering, but if the Eurozone dies, there may be worse consequences, a revenge of a Europe we had thought buried. Though not as long as you might think. Already, the Eurozone’s crisis has overturned Serbia’s government, bringing to power a new leader who wasted no time denying that genocide took place in Srebrenica in 1995 (Apparently, accession to the EU isn’t wh…