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The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…he better approach. The civil rights organizations—Sikh, Arab, Muslim, and South Asian—now critical of the 9/11 Museum’s decisions have more at stake than Christian groups did during the “Antisemitism” film controversy. At that time, Robert Royal, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, explained the general ambivalence: “As far as criticism of Christianity, we’re not as sensitive because, maybe, we tend to feel, Christianity has la…

Bobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.

By Murali Balaji

…is something many of us don’t want to discuss because we look at religious freedom as an enshrined right. But the truth is, religious freedom is highly subjective and dovetails with what it means to become American for many kids from non-Christian backgrounds. It’s why someone like Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who publicly identifies as a Hindu, has become such a strong voice for pluralism in the political arena. Ultimately, Jindal got what he wan…

Passover with Mohammed: A Jewish Journalist in Yemen

By Sam Kestenbaum

…There have been reports (still unverified) of clashes with Al-Qaeda in the south, a story about drone strike in Marib, just two hours to the east, is also emerging. But lunch is a very important time in Yemen. Three other reporters join us and we order rice, salta—a traditional Yemeni lamb dish—chicken, soup and piles of fresh bread. Because of Pesach, I don’t touch the bread. I’m eating my salta with a spoon instead of scooping it with a handful…

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Uncovering the (White) Christian Roots of Slavery, Native American Genocide, and Ongoing Efforts to Erase History

By Bradley Onishi

…So even the Declaration of Independence has this phrase about “merciless [Indian] savages.” The Constitution explicitly excludes Native Americans from the rights in that document. How was the Doctrine of Discovery used against Native Americans in the Mississippi Delta? I begin with Emmett Till, and his murder in Mississippi. He was born in 1941, but his story begins 400 years before that with Hernando de Soto, the Spanish conquistador, showing up…

Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism

By Peter Laarman

…ample of Dutch settler colonialism corresponding to the general pattern of freedom for us/unfreedom for others is of apartheid South Africa, where a notoriously brutal regime that, just like New England, saw itself as a “New Israel,” survived until 1990. This is the darker side of Calvinism that Robinson has seldom if ever discussed, and it would really help her case for Calvinist “liberality” if she could also acknowledge the shadow side. For exa…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…in New York and Philadelphia—not to mention affiliates across the Midwest, South, West Indies, and even South Africa. Israelite ideas were popular in the Holiness movement, and played an indispensable role in the evolution of Pentecosalism, the most numerous Christian movement of the twentieth century. I could find important antecedents in the Anglo-Israelite, who had representatives both here and in Britiain, and even make a cameo in E.P. Thompso…

At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump Support Is Part of a 150-Year Tradition

By Daniel Silliman

…ationists were “trying to upset all of the things that we love as good old Southern people and as good old Southern Baptists.” Even worse, he said, Baptists were succumbing to the pressure of civil rights activists. Criswell said these Baptists were an embarrassment to their martyred forefathers. There was some backlash to the speech but it also won Criswell some new political friends. H.L. Hunt, a wealthy Texas oilman and a committed conservative…

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

By Kenyatta R. Gilbert

…ing the course of the largely leaderless movement of more than 1.5 million southern Black migrants who exited the South between 1916 and 1940, staking it all in search of America’s Promised Land in the industrial North. What’s your next book? I have a book titled Exodus Preaching: Shaping Sermons for the Here-And-Now under contract with Abingdon Press due out in 2017. It is a practical companion to A Pursued Justice. The readership I have in mind…

The Theology of Westboro: The “World’s Meanest Church” Is More Than Picket Signs

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…church members as uneducated, fat, slovenly, rural “backwoods” types with Southern accents. Yet, most members of the church have at least a college degree, and many have advanced degrees. Many people in the church are athletes, especially runners, who compete on the local level, and Topeka, Kansas, where the church is located, is a city of over 125,000 people—not a big city but also not a rural backwater. Also only one church member—founding past…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mily Values.” Maina writes that a proposed “National Family Protection and Promotion Policy,” which could “have a significant effect on the quality of Kenyans’ lives,” has not been made public. Maina concludes: These recent developments threaten to tarnish Kenya’s reputation as a free and fair democracy guided by the rule of law, and expose a worrying move to develop laws and policies based on religion and not law, with the potential of institutio…