The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music
Ten Questions on “Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture”
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Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ
A conversation with the Rev. John Dorhauer, incoming president of the United Church of Christ.
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Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?
Today, it can be argued, a different type of prophetic witness is emerging that is perhaps as radical and countercultural as those of the 1960s, given the current polarized climate. It asks people to consider how to be good global citizens amid pluralism—a pluralism that includes fundamentalists and atheists.
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Coming Out As a Heretic
For folks who are unorthodox but aren’t atheists, who care about metaphysics but who aren’t mystics, perhaps the good old-fashioned term “heretic” will satisfy.
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The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On
A Reforming Tradition Struggles With Change
For progressives in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the wider Christian church and society at large, the vote was a thrilling victory after decades of struggle and setback. For conservatives, the vote signaled a decisive break with scripture and tradition and called the orthodoxy and orthopraxy of the this denomination into question. Almost one year later, we can take a step back to consider what happened in Minneapolis and to map some of the trajectories of this historic vote.
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