Showing posts with label Fred Clark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fred Clark. Show all posts
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Calling the Bluff of Those Who Maintain That Roots of Southern White Evangelicals Don't Run Back to Defense of Slavery

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I'm not a white evangelical now, but I was raised in the Southern Baptist church, with two Baptist grandmothers (one Southern an...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Commentary: Political Fall-Out as Catholic Bishops Face Reckoning for Covering Abuse Crimes; German Catholic Discussion of Bible and Homosexuality

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More commentary today that catches my attention, and is especially interesting when read side by side:  Patricia Miller, " I...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Internet Responds to POTUS' Personal Theologian Paula White & Her Clownish Theology of White Nationalism: "Do You Not Read Your Bible, Sis?"

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. @Paula_White - who commits theological malpractice with nearly every word - advises the president of the United States. Where did she...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Quote for the Day: Fred Clark on How "Evangelical Christianity Is Turning into 8chan"

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At his Slacktivist site today , Fred Clark reports on the decision of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University to make a biographical ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Fred Clark on Gerson and Ladd: "Helpful Corrective to Gerson's Longer, Larger Piece Because Ladd Centers the Defining Facts of Slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights"

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Yesterday, when I posted Twitter (and other) responses to Michael Gerson's recent essay on white evangelicals and Trump, I point...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Two More Queer Catholics Fired, "Progressive" Evangelicals "Discern" Whether Queer Folks Should Be Treated Equally, CBF Discriminates Against Queer Employees: What's This All About?

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Mark Guevarra writes , "In early December 2017, a representative from the Archdiocese of Edmonton called me in for an invest...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Long and Short of It: Evangelical Mulligans and Idiot Winds — Religion in the News

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“Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump’s past behavior so long as he delivers fo...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Eugene Peterson Suggests God May Love LGBTQ Human Beings, and White Evangelical Gatekeepers Go Ballistic: Tempest in a Stewpot

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As readers who follow religion news, especially insofar as it relates to LGBTQ lives and issues, probably know, there has been an int...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Quote for Day: "Deny Them That 'We' — That Vast and Inclusive Plural"

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How do we fight back now? Fred Clark's suggestion , as a white evangelical Christian who moves against the pro-Trump tide of his whit...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Anthea Butler on Disarray Under Evangelical Umbrella Due to Trump

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A valuable footnote to our discussion yesterday of Fred Clark's take on the shenanigans of those trying to rescue the white evangel...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Fred Clark on Shenanigans of Those Trying to Rescue White Evangelical Brand from Trumpism

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With impeccable evangelical cred, Fred Clark cries foul on the attempt of some leading white evangelical commentators right now to t...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Where Have All the Christian Intellectuals Gone? (Does Anyone Remember John Paul's and Ratzinger's Purge of Catholic Theologians?)

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It's a thing now among journalists and religion commentators to ask what has happened to the public intellectuals of the churches...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Fred Clark on Rev. William J. Barber's Moral Revolution: A Rebuke to White Evangelical Reading of the Bible

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As Fred Clark says , there's a reason Rev. William J. Barber cited "Revive Us Again," a venerable hymn long beloved by ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

More on the Claim That Religious Right Is Waning, as Evidence Mounts of Massive White Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

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Two days ago, I posted commentary expressing my own strong reservations about the argument — often pushed by liberal-centrist politica...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Want to Know Why "Pro-Life" Democrats Are Vanishing Breed? Go See "Spotlight," Fred Clark Advises: On the Catholic Bishops, the Culture Wars, and Mr. Trump

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Want to know why the "pro-life" Democrats have vanished, Fred Clark asks ? And then he recommends: "Go see 'Spotligh...

Claim That the Culture Wars are Over and Religious Right Is Obsolescent Links to Claim That Political Left and Identity Politics Are Responsible for Trump: My Take

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One thing I suppose many of us can agree on about the current U.S. presidential election cycle is that it has been full of surprise...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Quote for Day: The Current Trans-Panic and "A Process Which, If Followed to the End, Will Make Us Into Devils"

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Fred Clark at Slacktivist , commenting on a lurid fantasy being peddled by conservative Christian commentator Rod Dreher , about gang...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

"The Church Came Early to the Hanging": Deciphering Conversations About Race and Religion (and LGBTQ Humanity), As Trump Rises to Power

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The current political context is forcing Americans to discuss race, and churchpeople have some serious reckoning to do. Not only did th...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Once Again, Why Are White Evangelicals (and Working-Class White Catholics) Gung-Ho About Trump? — "A Form of Identity Politics That Has Always Tied Together Jesus, America, and Whiteness"

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The discussion about the (by now, clearly demonstrated)  fact   that Donald Trump is mopping up in the evangelical voting market cont...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Quote for Day: Fred Clark on Antonin Scalia and How to Avoid Having One's Death Perceived As a Source of Liberation

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Fred Clark on the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: