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If You Don’t Have Peace You Don’t Have Jesus, Preacher Tells Georgia House of Representatives

By Andrew L. Seidel

…everlasting life. God, I’ve heard the saying, ‘Eternity is too long to be wrong.’ So God, let us be right about where we are going to spend eternity. Kelley preached hellfire, not just for non-Christians generally, but specifically for all non-Baptists. The sermon embodied the worst religious tendency: I’m right, you’re wrong, and you’re going to hell. It was division writ large. ALSO FROM THE AUTHOR When the Supreme Court first upheld legislativ…

BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…less glamorous story about someone who got caught because they were in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with less savvy, less money, less privilege, and less power. And in America, that someone is usually black. We live in a country that criminalizes and incarcerates young black men at incredibly disproportionate rates—in 2009, African-Americans comprised 12.4% of the general US population and 38.2% of its prison population—and in some regions…

NOM’s Gallagher: “Don’t Call Me a Bigot!”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ough I believe such acts degrade the institution of marriage. Gallagher is wrong, however, to assert that she is being painted as a bigot by some hateful cabal of gay and lesbian operatives. Instead, she is simply discovering herself on the wrong side of history as the world begins to understand how ridiculous it is to bar two consenting, unrelated, adults from forming a civil contract called marriage. A new CNN poll shows 51% of Americans believe…

The Key to Understanding Trump and His Christian Enablers

By Daniel Schultz

…ment. What stands out to me about it is the first sentence: “I see nothing wrong with the president doing things that will bring him personal, political benefit.” Really? If the president decided to eat a live puppy at his next rally, there would be nothing wrong with it? If there are no limits to a president’s self-seeking, then nothing can be more important than that self-seeking, and just like that, we have achieved nihilist reduction. None of…

A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter

By Daniel Schultz

…ummation. I disagree with those who say the protest in Chicago was just as wrong as Trump’s rhetoric. I think a protest is a way to disrupt the natural result of a thought or a method for the sake of evaluating what is the truth, what is justice. So if I’m reading you right, protest is performative in a deeply Christian sense. It highlights the difference between right and wrong. It is a part of the true religion of James for me. In fighting for s…

Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…ways. Particular sets of moral logics (say, Christian notions of right and wrong or professional ethics) are pitted against one another in storyline after storyline. For example, in an early 2000s storyline on Days of Our Lives, a teenager, Shawn (Jason Cook), was pulled in two directions by his love for his girlfriend Belle and his firm conviction that his friend Jan, pregnant as a result of rape, should not abort her pregnancy. Shawn is depicted…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…ch have been looking for the youth in the wrong places and asking them the wrong questions when they do find them. They’ve been so preoccupied with churches bearing steeples and bells that they’ve failed to see the ways popular music is in conversation, and occasional wrestling matches, with the holy. Christianity, and a very orthodox Christianity at that, is hiding in plain sight. The last decade has seen a marked rise in mainstream musicians del…

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…se people were just holdouts, who would soon give up or die off. The large number of young families I saw at St. Joan of Arc—around a third of the parish—suggest to me what others must have by now have realized: that this constituency is not going anywhere soon.” Lefebvre’s views wove together theological, ecclesiastical and political conservatism. Though, like all traditionalist groups, the SSPX claims to be preserving the Church’s immemorial tra…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…actice, material culture and daily life as well as the law. I then spent a number of years tracking down, unearthing and interpreting the many iterations of the ancient biblical passages that turned out, much to my surprise and delight, to be just about everywhere in the United States of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? What a country! The stalwart, enduring presence of the Ten Comman…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…ify hate and violence. And while the coincidence of being born under the “Sign of the Beast” in Topeka 666 is still a little unnerving, there are differing opinions about the number’s translation. Some theologians suggest the number should really be 616, in which case, all eyes on Peoria, Illinois….