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Bullies Flourishing with Christian Support

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at Hamilton Middle School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Houston Texas. Brown, his family said, was “bullied to death” – picked on for his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes. Kids also accused him of being gay, some of them performing mock gay acts on him in his physical education class, his moth…

What My Christian High School Taught Me About Being a Black Girl

By Carlyn Ferrari

…ailed me. And schools like Bartram Trail High School in Florida fail their students when they doctor yearbook photos for the sake of “modesty.” My Christian education groomed me for my harassment. Most of my teachers were white men, and they weren’t just teachers. They were spiritual leaders. My classes began with a brief devotion and prayer, and the curriculum was filled with religion classes that taught the “right” way to interpret the Bible. In…

The Myth of “King David” Petraeus and Iraq

By Ira Chernus

…body counts” that flashed in charts on network news shows every night. (My students still get pretty shocked when I tell them about those colorful scorecards over the anchorman’s shoulder.) Westmoreland may be the best analogy to Petraeus. He, too, was raised to the stature of mythic hero before victory was achieved, in a vain effort to boost support for a war that could not be won. But before I run this metaphor of the general as mythic hero into…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…w. Reed also sponsored a bill that created “A Day of Prayer for Kentucky’s Students” and his campaign video includes the religious motto as a hashtag. But not all schools are acquiescing to Reed’s Christian nationalism or are willing to divide schoolchildren along religious lines. Fayetteville County Schools in Arkansas complied with the new law so as to minimize alienating children. The schools put up a single framed dollar bill. In response, Ree…

Texas School Board Votes to Remove Thomas Jefferson from Curriculum

By Lauri Lebo

…tion: 9:30 – Board member Cynthia Dunbar wants to change a standard having students study the impact of Enlightenment ideas on political revolutions from 1750 to the present. She wants to drop the reference to Enlightenment ideas (replacing with “the writings of”) and to Thomas Jefferson. She adds Thomas Aquinas and others. Jefferson’s ideas, she argues, were based on other political philosophers listed in the standards. We don’t buy her argument…

Pentecostal Scholars Call for Academic Freedom

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…e and allows resuscitation to the most beaten down parts of existence. For students of the movement, Pentecostalism is a fascinating religious excursion. Access to understanding and writing about Pentecostalism will not be sealed off by provincial gatekeepers. Pentecostalism as a global phenomenon is simply too complicated, too controversial, too intriguing a movement to maintain the pristine qualities vaunted by denominational sycophants and lead…

The Birmingham Church Bombing: How Will We Remember?

By Edward J. Blum

…and the jagged piece of concrete removed from her skull.” When one of the students asked if Mr. McNair had forgiven the white supremacists who took his daughter’s life, his answer was righteous rage. God, McNair said, “would destroy Alabama by wiping it clean with His hand.” In the realm of our public memories of the civil rights movement, could anything be more un-King-like? Wasn’t the civil rights movement about reconciliation and hope? Wasn’t…

What is Interfaith Cooperation For?

By Eboo Patel

…I founded and lead, and it guides the work we do with college campuses and students. Let me begin by summarizing one of Hulsether’s main arguments. She maintains that mainstream interfaith projects reach a wider base by avoiding divisive political topics and glossing over issues of “justice” and “structural violence.” This is a problem because, to Hulsether, those are the issues that really matter. Hulsether names civil liberties, material conflic…

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

By Rosetta E. Ross

…irects). Among the generationally diverse group of conferees were graduate students, young women interested in religious study and practices, seminary administrators, and Christian denominational leaders and executives from Africa and the United States; representatives of Ghanaian Muslim women’s groups and Ghanaian traditional leader, Nana Amba Eyiaba, Queen Mother of the original Cape Coast area; as well as college, seminary, and university profe…

With Christian Schools At Risk In Israel, Crickets from American Christian Conservatives

By Sarah Posner

…tion: The ministry provides 100 percent funding for 200,000 ultra-Orthodox students in religious, nonpublic schools. Israeli Christians believe this is unfair treatment since Israeli national law prohibits discrimination in education. “In a challenging time like this for Christians in the whole Middle East, we expect Israel to deal with this identity matter of Christians in a sensitive way,” said Botrus Mansour, director of Nazareth Baptist, a K-1…