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A History of Prophetic Black Preaching That Doesn’t Start or End With Dr. King

By Kenyatta R. Gilbert

…reat Migration to Civil Rights Kenyatta R. Gilbert Baylor University Press August 1, 2016 Through these masks or personas, Black religious leaders have captured the sacred imaginations of the faithful and at the same time have earned worldwide scrutiny. This gives some explanation, for example, regarding why you could see two diametrically opposed Black reverend types on the major stages of the RNC and DNC. At one pole, you have South Carolinian B…

Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico

By Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…ttle over three years. Among other recent victims are 72 migrants found on August 24th on a farm in a remote town just 100 miles south of the US border. Dismantling the Liberationist Legacy Liberation Theology, the radical social and theological experiment launched after the Second Vatican Council, offered both a social critique and a utopian vision for the future of Latin America. This project was, for a time, powerful and pervasive enough that i…

The Evangelical Abortion Myth: An Excerpt from ‘Bad Faith’

By Randall Balmer

…ad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right Randall Balmer Eerdmans August, 2021 This myth of origins has Falwell and other evangelical leaders emerging like mollusks out of their apolitical stupor to fight the moral outrage of legalized abortion. Some even went so far as to invoke the moniker “new abolitionists” in an apparent effort to ally themselves with their antebellum evangelical predecessors who sought to eradicate the scourge of sl…

A Time to Break Down, and A Time to Build Up: Reinventing Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans

By Ellen Blue

…Reinventing the Church in Post-Katrina New Orleans Ellen Blue Wipf & Stock August 4, 2016 My heart was breaking, too, since New Orleans is my home. My son was in the city as a first responder during the storm, and his family’s home had to be bulldozed. The fear and grief were very personal for me. Yet living and teaching in Tulsa gave me the distance that allowed some level of objectivity that UMC people living in south Louisiana couldn’t hope to…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ontrary to God’s created order for the family and human relationships.” In August 2014, the General Presbytery of the Assemblies of God adopted the following official statement: “We believe, in light of biblical revelation, that the growing cultural acceptance of homosexual identity and behavior (male and female), same-sex marriage, and efforts to change one’s biological sexual identity are all symptomatic of a broader spiritual disorder that thre…

Satanic Temple Organizing a Rally for Religious Liberty

By Joseph Laycock

…r that 9-foot bronze statue of Baphomet the Satanic Temple (TST) built? On August 16, it will be loaded onto a truck and driven from Salem, Massachusetts, to Little Rock, Arkansas, where it will be the focus of an interfaith rally for religious liberty. This move is part of an ongoing three-year controversy involving TST, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Arkansas legislature over a Ten Commandments monument currently installed at…

Marco Rubio isn’t a Religious Panderer He’s the New Breed

By Patricia Miller

…r relationship to the Bible—at the behest of Pope Francis, no less.) In an August interview Rubio sounded quintessentially Evangelical when he told the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore that religious liberty was about the right to live according to religious teachings and “to have the opportunity spread them to others.” Then he went on to say: Those of us in the Christian faith understand that we are called to be Christian in every aspe…

Atheists and Christians Compete to Give More

By Lauri Lebo

…ams are Team Atheist and Kiva Christian. Both have been in existence since August 2008. But The Friendly Atheist reported last week that Team Atheist members have reached a $3 million milestone recently. And the number is growing. I checked this morning and it was up to $3.3 million now with almost 14,000 members. Meanwhile, Kiva Christian is up to almost $2 million in loans with 6,500 members. Team Atheist, which comprises atheists, agnostics, sk…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…illips, Governor of St. Helena, Ascension & Tristan da Cunha, announced on August 4 that “Ascension Marriage Ordinance now extended to Tristan da Cunha, which lies some 2300 miles to the south of Ascension. This means same sex marriage in both islands is enshrined in law.” Marriage equality went into effect on the island of Ascension on January 1 after the island council voted last year to approve it. Tristan da Cunha, which sits in the southern A…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…ing continues to cite Tanton groups as authoritative, tellingly describing NumbersUSA as an “immigration reduction advocacy organization” in an August 2010 piece and citing FAIR in a story claiming that “illegal aliens” would “trump veterans at US medical offices.” Groening also praised a Mississippi immigration raid, citing the Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement (MFIRE); listed on FAIR’s Web site as a “local group,” one…