Religion Dispatches
…port. A Web site devoted to Freshwater’s cause is called www.bibleonthedesk.com. But Dennis said the issue was never about the Bible on the desk. And nowhere in the lawsuit’s initial complaint is it even mentioned. Rather, she says, it’s because her son was branded. After Freshwater took his side public, Jenifer said she and her husband were worried Freshwater wouldn’t face disciplinary action. In June, they filed a lawsuit against Freshwater and…
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…certain way using the trope of a shamed promiscuous woman. https://twitter.com/JonathanMerritt/status/1404854271670095884 Greear made this observation to support a larger point that the SBC should be focused on evangelizing rather than getting involved in politics. The Nashville meeting apparently included debate on whether (male) pastors who committed sexual abuse could or could not be pastors and whether third-party inquiries into sexual abuse…
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…stain minces no words about the flaws of evangelicalism. https://soundcloud.com/exvangelical-podcast/kevin-wright-re-release Episode 16 of Exvangelical is a passionate post-election rebuke of white evangelicals for their Trump support; as Chastain says, “evangelicals bear much of the blame.” When I asked Chastain if he considers American evangelicals to be fundamentalists as a general rule, this is how he responded: I don’t know that all evangelic…
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…from what should be the full consequences of their crimes. https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1372225557237145601?s=20 Evangelical purity culture is, of course, grounded in the specifically American inflection of white supremacism, with the sexualization of brown and especially Black bodies that goes along with a performative obsession to “protect” white women from Black men, who are assumed to be predatory. We can trace this racist trope back t…
Read More…z will not appear at the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit after Change.com launched a petition against his appearance and denounced Willow Creek as an “anti-gay church.” Mark Silk traces the new prevalence of “for God and country” in the military and somehow brings Dolly Parton into it. From the file of new studies: people become more religious during hard times and are happier during periods of difficulty, restrictions on religious belief an…
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…t my own discomfort on the morning of the Oak Creek attack: https://twitter.com/edrescherphd/status/232208487675994112 The common denominator Others have seen religious intolerance as a central feature in many recent mass killings. Mark Juergensmeyer recently discussed the ways in which certain religious narratives meld seamlessly with notions of violence and war. The image of cosmic, religious war, he notes, can been seen at the center of both Is…
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…ity movement. Earlier this month, Trewhella posted a note at ProLifeAmerica.com reporting that there was “Great news from the Dominican Republic regarding the continued battle on behalf of the pre-born and keeping the pro-life tenet of the new Constitution.” In a P.S., Trewhella asked supporters to: Pray for the lesser-magistrates in Honduras who are doing right—and for doing right have the one-worlders and socialists lining up against them from a…
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…on of jumper cables to start a necessary conversation.” In a recent “Guest Commentary” titled “Becoming a Christian Citizen: Electoral Lessons from the Religious Right for the Religious Left,” published in the Fall, 2008 edition of The Public Eye, a publication of Political Research Associates, Clarkson wrote: The main reason why the Religious Right became powerful is not what most people may think. Some would undoubtedly point to the powerful com…
Read More…uation of inferiority, disadvantage and inequality”. According to AllAfrica.com: Homosexuality is not, and never has been, illegal in Mozambique. The colonial Penal Code, as amended in 1954, contained a clause which thundered against “those who habitually engage in vices against nature”, who could be imprisoned for up to three years. But who is to decide what constitutes a “vice against nature”? The Portuguese legislators had been too coy to menti…
Read More…more outlandish antics. Charles Mitchell, who blogs at evangelicalsformitt.com but is not formally affiliated with the Romney campaign, said, “We don’t just want you to get up there and pound your foot and say, ‘I’m pro-life!’ ‘Let’s go after gay marriage!’” He also said that evangelicals like him are frustrated by publicity stunts like Judge Roy Moore’s defiance of a court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse. “Where d…
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