https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to slavery en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/08/nikki-haleys-slavery-omission-typifies-gops-tragic-pact-white-supremacy Nikki Haley’s headline-generating incident at a town hall in New Hampshire is the perfect metaphor for the current Republican Party and its continued slide into open authoritarianism and White supremacy. At a recent town hall in New Hampshire , the… Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:08:59 EST Annika Brockschmidt 7da44205-3497-46c7-ab61-2d604a0f004e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/24/florida-attempts-make-it-illegal-argument-sacred-work-white-discomfort In Florida, a state senate committee wants to make it illegal to cause discomfort to white people. This bill, which reads like a scene from 1984 , is a doozy. You can, and should, read the full text of it… Mon, 24 Jan 2022 06:27:41 EST Robert P. Jones ba57c5a8-05f8-4fcb-9688-c0e49a17f741 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/07/16/tearing-down-evangelical-icons-why-penns-decision-remove-george-whitefield-statue-may-be It’s a curious fact of history that a statue of John Wesley stands prominently ensconced in the center of downtown Savannah, Georgia. In stark contrast, a nondescript gazebo dedicated to George Whitefield sits nestled in a quiet residential area on… Thu, 16 Jul 2020 02:00:07 EDT Peter Y. Choi b01d1530-492c-46ec-be1b-a7ea22d0fc17 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/29/busting-myth-evangelical-glory-days-and-more-white-supremacy-quiz Last week, Justice Not Jails surveyed its subscribers to gauge their familiarity with the history of white supremacy in the US. While it’s an informal survey, it’s interesting to consider the results in light of the fact that respondents are… Tue, 29 May 2018 01:11:48 EDT Evan Derkacz 45c0ee8e-20c3-42c2-bb18-89e6ee1567ed https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/18/spiritual-mapping-evangelicals-battle-vodou-haiti Reza Aslan is the host of the new spiritual adventure series Believer , which tackles the battle between evangelical Christianity and Vodou in Haiti in this Sunday’s episode on CNN 7PT/10ET. After the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010… Sat, 18 Mar 2017 01:31:08 EDT Reza Aslan 289d1b08-69e0-4708-b257-45c9c42f7643 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/20/why-we-need-public-black-theology-21st-century Black Christian public intellectuals are a vanishing group. Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:00:41 EDT Vincent Lloyd a4a79f1e-f526-413c-b5ce-9835c2e23c64 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/20/new-history-finally-recognizes-afro-creole-spiritualists To the Afro-Creole Spiritualists of New Orleans, spirits were important, raced bodies were not. Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:00:33 EDT Paul Harvey ba630399-fb6f-4314-8d0c-0bc7ae9f118a https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/27/pious-white-reformers-and-race-then-and-now The old refrain that white liberals are the bane of systemic change applies differently when we are looking at the record of white liberals during the first half of this country’s 240-year official history. This was a time when enlightened… Wed, 27 Jul 2016 04:26:15 EDT Peter Laarman f99f1d26-4aa0-43c0-bb8c-399388aa667f https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/15/yale-clings-racist-legacy-and-cash-lots-cash God and Mammon at Yale. Fri, 15 Jul 2016 01:07:44 EDT Peter Laarman 89390667-9d82-4123-8a1f-8f3917fa8b47 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/21/will-house-freedom-groups-core-racism-go-unchallenged Where, oh where, are the “budget is a moral document” types when we really need them? I don’t know about you, but I hear nary a peep about the debt ceiling standoff from DC’s Religion Industrial Complex: the Jim Wallis… Wed, 21 Oct 2015 01:16:30 EDT Peter Laarman c216fd11-062b-415a-bd7f-7881d37960c1 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/02/rape-marriage-nigerian-girls-biblical-marriage Nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been ripped from their desks and chairs, notebooks and pencils, smiles and giggles and sent to hell. They’ve been sold, trafficked for sex and reproduction and household labor. Typically described as “forced” marriage, it would… Fri, 02 May 2014 03:41:42 EDT Wil Gafney 542fd499-5286-4012-8bb3-9baf04dbaf1a https://religiondispatches.org/2012/10/16/mitts-jesus-baracks-jesus-and-why-christs-color-matters By tracking the way Jesus Christ has been rendered through the American racial imagination—actually lining up all the evidence, from Puritan witch trial transcripts through stained glass windows through contemporary movies—Paul and Ed give us a new place to start a national discussion about who owns the image of God. That discussion has been going on, as The Color of Christ demonstrates, in communities of color since the early nineteenth century, if not before. Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:19:56 EDT Joanna Brooks 4ad0408e-6409-47b3-9fbc-a4267c3fb49b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/08/sarah-palin-obama-wants-make-white-people-slaves The “Palin Whisperer” breaks it down. Wed, 08 Aug 2012 06:11:57 EDT Anthea Butler 9f9bd1c2-11ef-49c1-a8d1-53cd4149849d https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/10/religious-right-bible-and-slavery Should Christians ignore or exploit slaves-obey-your-masters verses? Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:22:07 EDT Peter Montgomery 0020b9e1-7d32-4f8f-a0dc-31fae248861b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/06/28/cleansing-monsters-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter retells the story of America, laying the blame for many of the worst episodes on vampires. Does this history let us off the hook? Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:06:38 EDT Joseph Laycock 654c9ed4-d18e-4952-a815-c5c56c146dec https://religiondispatches.org/2012/02/22/keeping-southern-southern-baptist-convention For leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, if heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie—with low taxes, fewer regulations, a decreased state involvement in public welfare and institutions, denial of coverage for women’s health concerns, and bitter attacks on the Obama administration launched from every available platform—then they don’t want to go. And even the city slickers running Mitt Romney’s campaigns and the rowdy friends at Ron Paul’s rallies should be able to appreciate that. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:22:12 EST Paul Harvey ddbf1e68-1af6-4a6d-86fd-101fe00b0945 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/29/suppression-sin-evangelical-abolitionism-wilberforce-problem Young evangelicals who have taken up Wilberforce’s abolitionist banner are discovering that lacing social action with a concern for “the suppression of sin” is miring their efforts in needless controversy and threatening much-needed coalitions. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:14:17 EDT Jonathan D. Fitzgerald 98481996-f9b9-4a57-a4b3-94fc9687b7a3 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/19/tea-party-rhetoric-literal-slavery-not-so-bad But “tax slavery” and “slavery to sin”—that’s another thing. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:57:21 EDT Julie Ingersoll 6871b29b-3dee-4a53-905c-7491af02fe7b https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/12/gods-law-only-law-genesis-michele-bachmann At the May “First Friday” lecture hosted by the Institute on the Constitution at the Heritage Community Church in Severn, Maryland, IOTC founder Michael Peroutka presented the evening’s guest speaker, attorney Herb Titus, with a “Patrick Henry Award” for “his tireless and fearless telling of God’s truth to power.” Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:57:35 EDT Sarah Posner 78a68eef-3755-4a01-891d-6b8a5ecc23b1 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/11/cant-truss-white-conservatives-pledge There’ll be no baby-making Barry White music played while reading the “The Marriage Vow: a Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family.” Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:08:53 EDT Anthea Butler 36b41c5b-10fb-43cc-bfb5-39f7bd9d6064 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/06/30/belated-july-4th-video-greatest-speech-19th-century “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” illumines the hypocrisy of a nation unable to check and challenge itself concerning its own moral hubris. Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:22:24 EDT Jonathan L. Walton c5b5a8d6-5514-4dc2-9a18-dcdc0e3bdc8b https://religiondispatches.org/2011/03/15/jesus-hates-taxes-biblical-capitalism-created-fertile-anti-union-soil While the current assault on unions seems driven mostly by the billionaire Koch brothers and corporate-funded groups, religious right leaders and activists have spent decades creating fertile soil for anti-union campaigns through the promotion of biblical capitalism. Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:52:03 EDT Peter Montgomery 962ca88a-575c-46f8-9591-2990399ee576 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/11/10/gay-black-church-interview-bishop-yvette-flunder African-American people were taught Christianity in the context of oppression. When people are disempowered, they are often empowered at someone else’s expense, whether it’s women or children or gay people. How do we get through that? Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:26:28 EST Lisa Webster d0e12f51-6380-4c6c-aaae-102dc8638ca4 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/10/18/brutality-american-eden Last week’s six-hour PBS documentary, God in America, wasn’t really about God in America. Nor was it about religions in America. Following a fairly conventional narrative in mainstream discourse (albeit not one adopted by the contemporary Christian right), the series… Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:00:57 EDT Paul Harvey eae976b8-d617-40a9-b217-b16271a67ddc https://religiondispatches.org/2010/08/25/becks-dream-our-nightmare Only in the world of Glenn Beck can he both carry on the legacy of Martin Luther King and be the star student of a “biblical worldview” that minimizes slavery and claims that modern-day conservatives are the champions of racial justice. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:47:28 EDT Julie Ingersoll 9d750405-cd60-4dda-8dc9-9e65ae88ec80