Showing posts with label Southern Baptists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southern Baptists. Show all posts
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Recent Religion + Politics Commentary: "Pro-Life" Movement, Christian Nationalism, Southern Baptists and United Methodists, Leonard Leo and New USCCB President

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Here are some valuable articles I've read in the past week or two about religion and politics and their intersection:
Monday, November 7, 2022

White Christian Nationalism on Ballot This Election Cycle

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Insightful essays appearing now before the election about how white Christian nationalism is on the ballot this election: Paul Brandeis Raus...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Weekly News Roundup by Mark Wingfield of Baptist News Global: "What kind of Christian posts a meme on social media that mocks Paul Pelosi after he was violently attacked?"

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Hammer photo uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Malene Thyssen Each Friday, Mark Wingfield, editor of Baptist News Global , sends a Friday ro...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Robin Givhan: "The attack on Pelosi graphically highlights just how indecent this country has become"

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Nick Anderson's cartoon commentary on the Pelosi attack — and more Robin Givhan takes a look at one exceptionally disturbing aspect of...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Having Left Twitter Because Musk Acquired It, I'm Resuming This Blog

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  Photo of Leslie Jordan by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress, from discussion of his book How Y'All Doing?: MIsadventures and Mischief f...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Robert P. Jones's White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity — Excerpts Worth Noting

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As I did recently with Sarah Posner's new book   Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , I'd like to s...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

David Clohessy of SNAP Speaking Outside Southern Baptist Convention, Birmingham, Alabama, June 2019: How to Effect Real Change with Churches and Abuse

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I'd like to share with readers a presentation that David Clohessy of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) made in Jun...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Want to Know Why, Even Now, More Than Half of US White Christians Stand with Trump? See Robert P. Jones on GOP's White Christian Strategy

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1/ THREAD: For the second time this week, Donald Trump used a church as a photo op. This image released this morning shows the President ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

"Pro-Life" Christians May Yet Be the Death of Us All: Who's Driving Trump's Nonchalance About Coronavirus and Why

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Yesterday , I pointed you to a recent article by Ruth Graham about why Trump-friendly Christian leaders are feeling fine about coron...
Friday, December 20, 2019

At Long Last, Christianity Today Lowers the Boom — "It's Time to Call a Spade a Spade" — & Republicans Rage

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Christianity Today was founded by Billy Graham, the most prominent evangelical figure in modern history. It is a vehemently anti-choice, c...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

"It's Not All in the Past": Commentary on Abuse Stories in the News Now, Across Church Lines and National Lines

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“Rev. Marcotte is 32 years old and represents part of the "new guard" of the Catholic Church, yet by all indications, he has be...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Ruth Krall, Historical Meandering: Ideologies of Abuse and Exclusion (2)

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Vasily Polenov, Le droit du Seigneur (1874), in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow The essay below is the second part of Ruth Krall'...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Ruth Krall, Historical Meandering: Ideologies of Abuse and Exclusion (1)

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Vasily Polenov, Le droit du Seigneur (1874) (i) The essay by Ruth Krall that follows below is the fifth in a series of essays ent...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Abuse Whistleblower Rachael Denhollander on Why Survivors Know How Extensive Abuse Is in Southern Baptist Churches

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With nearly 15 million members, the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Now it's ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Southern Baptist and U.S. Catholic Leaders Meet in Same Week, Both Confronting Serious Sexual Abuse Problems: A "Gender Hurricane" Results

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It's a gender hurricane out there this week. Come Holy Spirit. https://t.co/ebDdAKIsEc — Natalia Imperatori (@nimperatori) June 11, 2...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Everything in This Spreading Crisis Revolves Around Structural Mendacity"; "Poland's Most Senior Nun Has Been Banned from Further Media Contact": Talking Abuse

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Poland's most senior nun has been banned from further media contact after condemning the sexual abuse of religious sisters by Cathol...
Monday, February 18, 2019

McCarrick Defrocked, Abuse Summit Convening, and NY Times Lets Gay Priests Speak: My Twitter Commentary

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For years, Roman Catholic Church leaders have driven gay congregants away in shame. And yet, thousands of ministers are gay men. Two doz...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Stephanie Krehbiel on Religious Groups Facing Abuse Revelations: "Godly Men, Be Quiet"

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This map shows routes of several Southern #Baptist "travelers;" men who preyed on people in one church role & went on to an...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Southern Baptist Abuse Report, Next Installment: "Preying on Teens"

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The third installment in the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News investigation of abuse in Southern Baptist churches is ou...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Southern Baptist Abuse Report, Next Installment: "Offend, Then Repeat"

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The next installment in the Houston Chronicle  (and San Antonio Express-News ) ground-breaking report on abuse within Southern Baptis...