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Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…stem. It’s not just that American prisons hold disproportionate numbers of African Americans. It’s that this racial composition created public support for, or at least indifference towards, “tough on crime” and “law and order” policies. Politicians have been able to pass harsh sentencing laws and build more prisons in part because deeply entrenched racial prejudices make the general public less likely to sympathize with the low-income African Amer…

Rev. William Barber: Jazzman for Justice

By Peter Heltzel

…prominent. There French colonizers had intermarried with Native Americans, African Americans and the Spanish, creating an unprecedented zone of intercultural interaction. The historical fact of racial and cultural mixing opens a window to understanding what jazz originally was: An essentially intercultural and, therefore, subversive phenomenon. Like jazz, fusion politics is an impressive blend of different political styles that is capable of confr…

Complicating the Prosperity Gospel Story: A Microeconomics of Pentecostalism, International Edition

By Naomi Haynes

…foremost by creating social relationships. When I first began researching African Pentecostalism, the general consensus was that it was a religion for people who wanted to reduce their social obligations. There’s a way to tell the story of Protestantism more generally as an individualizing religion, and when this narrative meets the prosperity gospel, with its emphasis on conspicuous consumption, it was easy for scholars to paint a picture of Pen…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…istian, recently wrote Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race—and Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us, which was published on October 17, 2015. Exactly a month previous, the Erwin brothers, who have had rare box-office success with faith-themed films, released an evangelical football story about racial reconciliation in 1970s Alabama, called Woodlawn. The film was based on true events recounted in a book of the same name,…

The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music

By Joshua Guthman

…experiences. The second story unfolds in the late-nineteenth century when African-American Primitives reconstructed Calvinism’s withered frame to build an education movement grounded in what they described as their “hardshell” Calvinist identity: rugged yet flexible, durable yet capable of adaptation. This is a tale that has entirely escaped notice even though its burdens and aspirations tell us something new about African Americans, Calvinism’s…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…” Loesch concludes. “I’m the National Rifle Association of America and I’m freedom’s safest place.” Holley gets the context of the video right, I think: If Loesch’s rhetoric is an attempt to draw battles lines and stoke outrage, she’s feeding into a clearly-defined narrative that exists among right-wing websites on the Internet, one that views a clash between conservatives and liberals in almost prophetic terms. I think Holley means “apocalyptic t…

Catholic Bishops Tackle Racism, But Is It Too Late?

By Patricia Miller

…to the likelihood that someone voted for Trump in the GOP primaries. White Republicans for whom white identity holds little salience were unlikely to vote for Trump. But as the degree of white identity increases, so did the likelihood that a Republican intended to voted for Trump, until at the top of the scale: Among those who said their identity as whites was extremely important to them, Trump’s support reached 81 percent. Catholics, it should be…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…all human rights. It will work to ensure that human rights and fundamental freedoms are enjoyed by all without discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, color, sex, age, language, religion, culture, migration status, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic situation, birth, disability or other status.” In the end, she says, “the compromise the drafters found was to replace the text with a verbatim cut-and-paste of langu…

How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?

By Austin Dacey

…s Carol Anderson details in Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, DuBois was joined by the educator and black feminist activist Mary McLeod Bethune and the NAACP’s executive director and chief investigator of lynchings, Walter White, in pressing for an enforceable international bill of human rights and independence for all colonized peoples. Their ultimate goal was to bring the United…

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…amatic session prior to the vote, Dorhauer was prominently endorsed by two African-American pastors, including The Rev. Traci Blackmon of Florissant, Missouri, one of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement. The other, The Rev. Damond Jackson of Tempe, Arizona said, “John Dorhauer is a person of privilege in the world we live in, but he has used his white, heterosexual, male power to lift those who live in the world of no-communication, the…