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Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…ith every outward step, as our universe and our ignorance grows, so do the number of potential space alien hideouts. So does the belief that there must be someone out there. So every time I read about the discovery of a new Earth-like planet or read about NASA’s upcoming Kepler planet-finding mission or watch a movie like Contact, I grow excited over—and, like Brahe, even a little afraid of—the vast unknown. My mind boggles. What’s really out ther…

The Racist Message of Do-Nothing Religion, Courtesy of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick

By Kevin Healey

…proverbial cart before the horse. “We cannot heal through commissions and blue-ribbon panels and more laws,” he said. So far, so good. In fact, activists who are serious about systemic racism have been saying for a long time that tweaking policies, scheduling more training sessions, and buying more body cameras will not get to the root of the problem. Hence the “systemic” in “systemic racism.” But Patrick isn’t advocating a sweeping, radical tran…

Hannity Incites Threats to DC Church where Obamas Attended Easter Services

By Sarah Posner

…with a target across is face,” Smith said. “My secretary has received telephone calls that have been so vulgar until she has had to hang up.” On Monday, Hannity played a clip of Smith speaking at Palmer Theological Seminary, where he had served as president, about the prevalence of racism. According to the Post: “It may not be Jim Crow anymore,” Smith says in the videotape. “Now, Jim Crow wears blue pinstripes, goes to law school and carries fanc…

6 Words Not in RNC Autopsy: Christian, Religion, Abortion, Marriage, Jesus, God

By Sarah Posner

…outside a campaign to try to tell voters the sky is green and the grass is blue, or that the Republican Party is different from the one on display during the 2012 campaign. The pitch for religious Latino voters, though, hints at what’s really at work on the religion front: that the party is trying to figure out a way to keep conservative, religious, white voters energized without alienating a pluralistic electorate. Saying that they’re going to re…

Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend

By Paul Harvey

…ented mandolin player and singer began his career with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, first taking the stage at the age of six. In the last two decades, he put in time singing for religious right rallies, part of a movement of country music to the right. In recent years, country songwriters have seemed to be virtually required to produce jingoistic populist anthems—from Charlie Daniels’ anthems of praise to the military might of the Reagan ye…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…doubt that a start would have been not being able to count on one hand the number of Black children in my entire Christian school student-body. Do Black educators only exist in public schools? Of course not. Why then couldn’t we find more Black scholars to employ when it came to teaching children? I can tell you that I’ll recognize change as genuine when white preachers and ministers stop using Bible verses to pacify their white congregants by amp…

In the Dark Night of Disaster

By Anthony B. Pinn

…out the window at the Houston downtown skyline and the flickering red and blue lights of police cars racing to catch those breaking the 9 PM Houston curfew. James Taylor sings softly in the background with as much clarity my small battery operated AM/FM radio can muster. In classic James Taylor form, he urges me to “shower the people you love with love.” I think many of them would actually settle at this moment for the ability to simply take a ho…

Trump In Colorado: When the “Facts” Are No Longer Checkable

By Paul Harvey

…art of a long-term trend towards turning Colorado purple, and increasingly blue. So it’s not entirely clear why he’s coming at all. But if he is, rousing the base in El Paso County certainly makes political sense, even if a rising Latino vote is likely to derail his train pretty badly. In response to Trump’s visit, a group of faculty members here began drafting a public letter, pointing out our widespread revulsion to Trump’s dark and divisive rhe…

Swiftboating Obama: The Brown Blob of Black Radicalism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ennsylvania allowed Hillary Clinton to present Senator Obama to some white blue-collar voters as an out of touch elite—language that can be interpreted as “uppity” according to the rules of the racial lexicon. Moreover, the latest media frenzy seems to prove that Senator Obama is in a no-win situation in terms of Rev. Wright. Despite Senator Obama’s public denouncements of his former pastor, many argued that the senator’s protestations were little…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…would be embarrassed to be found in a two-thirds-empty church with lots of blue-haired ladies and unenlightened preaching and an old organ wheezing along with those old, old hymns. And, to be clear, the appeal of the emergents cuts across the usual lines: it’s not restricted to people emerging from the old-school evangelical mold. Some liberal mainline congregations, or initiatives from those congregations aimed at bringing in younger folks, have…