Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans and Working Off the Nazi Past and the American Racist Past: A Report with Excerpts

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In February, I blogged a number of times about Susan Neiman's book Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farra...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Recommended: Ian Gilmour, Slavery to Civil Rights

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I'd like to recommend to you a little monograph entitled Slavery to Civil Rights , written by my friend Ian Gilmour, a Presbyteri...
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...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

"The Same [Bible] Passage Sessions Cited Has Been Used to Justify Slavery and Nazism": Valuable Commentary on Sessions' and Huckabee-Sanders' Use of Romans 13

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Dear Jeff Sessions, are you aware that the argument you made today from Romans 13 was a central argument of the German Christian (Pro-Nazi...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

In the News: Wendy Vitter Refuses to Affirm Support for Brown v. Board in Federal Judgeship Hearing; Americans Display Appalling Ignorance of History of Evangelicals Vis-a-Vis Slavery

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Two stories in today's news I'd like to share with you, both showing the effects of religious thinking and influence on the p...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

"In Every Case, 'Wives Submit to Your Husbands' Appears in the Same Context As 'Slaves Obey Your Masters'": A Twitter Conversation for You

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In every case, "wives submit to your husbands" appears in the same context as "slaves obey your masters." And yet I...
Friday, May 4, 2018

In the News: "Religious Freedom" and "Right" to Discriminate; Roots of Evangelicals' Idolization of Trump; Shifting Religious Landscape re: LGBT Rights; SBC and Misogyny

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Religion-themed news from the past several days that has caught my eye, and which I'd like to share with you:
Friday, April 27, 2018

Mark Labberton to Fellow White Evangelicals on Collusion with Trump: "Such Collusion Has Been Our Historic Habit"

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The following is from a statement that Fuller Seminary President Dr. Mark Labberton gave to the " evangelical consultation ...
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...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Trump and the Civil War: "Belief That the Civil War Could Have Been 'Worked Out' Reflects the Influence of the White Supremacist Neo-Confederate Movement on the Republican Party"

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Susan Rice says #Trump is trying to create smoke to 'distract or deflect' from #trumprussia . It is a threat to our institutions ...
Monday, May 1, 2017

"Why Was There the Civil War?" Mr. Trump Asks: Some Answers from Frances FitzGerald's The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

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Since the president of the United States asked this morning, "Why was there the Civil War?," I thought I might take a stab ...
Friday, September 23, 2016

No One Should Be Placed in the Position in Which Rakeyia Scott Was Placed: American Racism and the Heritage of Slavery

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Last week, I finished reading Edward Baptist's book  The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Catholic Church Cannot Alter Teaching on Marriage Because "There Is Explicit Teaching Over Centuries"

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Michael Sean Winters writes that the Catholic church cannot alter its teaching on marriage because, "On marriage, there is explic...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Michael Coren: Not Only Did Some Christians Oppose Slavery — Many Christians Defended Slavery, Citing the Bible and Longstanding Tradition

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As Michael Coren reminds us in his  Epiphany: A Christian's Change of Mind and Heart Over Same-Sex Marriage (Toronto: Signal, 2016...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Claims of Persecution and Catholic Support for Trump: Need to Move Beyond Defensive Parochial Response to Engage Real Issues — Like White Catholic Racism

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In a recent essay for Fortune , Matthew Schmalz, who teaches religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, suggests that Donal...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Quote for Day: "The Church's Position on Homosexuality Illustrates Why It's So Important to Link Ethical Claims to the Reality of Human Suffering"

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At Salon, Sean Illing argues that with his comments about apologizing to gay people, Pope Francis did not go far enough in addressing th...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Treasury Department Announces Harriet Tubman Will Depose Andrew Jackson from Front of Twenty-Dollar Bills: Knickers Become Atwist

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As Amy Goodman and Dennis Moynihan state,  legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman would seem to many of us to be the quintessence of w...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Peter Saunders, Member of Vatican Abuse Commission, Silenced, and I Finish Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's Silence: A Christian History: Making the Connections

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Silences such as Christian involvement in child abuse, anti-Semitism, slave-owning, demand constant rupture. On such noise does the hea...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Theological Roots of Bitter Battle of Some Christians Against LGBT Rights: The Bible Can't Be Wrong (We Can't Be Wrong, and Heterosexual Men Rule)

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Here's a set of interlocking observations that, to my mind, share a common theme: 1) a comment an Episcopal priest made to me yes...
Friday, July 17, 2015

A Reader Writes: "It Turns Out That It Was Obviously Stupid to Think That There Was Never a Time in Which People in the North Owned Slaves" — Slavery and Racism as the American Original Sin

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I find Annika's comment in response to my recent posting about my Southern roots and the Confederate flag fascinating. Annika wri...