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2013-08-27T13:13:00-05:00

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What Christian Left Can Learn From Christian Right

Last updated on: August 27, 2013 at 1:13 pm By Andre E. Johnson

On most Mondays this summer, protesters have been congregating in North Carolina to raise a moral voice against the actions of elected officials in the Tar Heel state. Beginning at the Capitol last spring, and spreading to other North Carolina cities with the legislative session finished for the year, the protests have attracted gatherings as big as 10,000 and captured the nation’s attention. Led by a minister and operating under the catchy moniker “Moral Mondays,” the protests call to mind Jerry... Read more

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2013-08-27T05:15:00-05:00

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Why is Religious Pandering So Prevalent?

Last updated on: August 27, 2013 at 5:15 am By Guest Contributor

Religion has long had an extraordinary influence in U.S. politics compared to other democracies. But this isn’t just a far-right phenomenon: If the Obama administration has its way, this influence might go even further. For example, the administration recently filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court arguing that it is constitutional to conduct official Christian prayers at town council meetings. The Supreme Court case stems from the town of Greece in New York, which opens nearly all its board sessions with... Read more

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2013-08-27T05:10:00-05:00

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What is Religion?, Part 1: Civil Religion and the State

Last updated on: August 27, 2013 at 5:10 am By Guest Contributor

The recent death of Robert Bellah made me reread his classic essay on American civil religion, which first appeared in 1967 and this, in turn, sparked a series’ worth of questions on what religion is. Bellah believed, as I have come to do, that a society without religion is impossible. This claim will strike quite a lot of readers as wholly absurd, as ridiculous as supposing that Earth goes round the sun when any fool can see the sun crossing the heavens several... Read more

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2013-08-27T05:06:00-05:00

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Why Intelligent People Are Less Likely to Be Religious

Last updated on: August 27, 2013 at 5:06 am By Guest Contributor

My story is almost always met with surprise: How could an atheist convert to Christianity at Harvard, the bastion of secular intellectual elitism? Now this reaction has some empirical justification. A recent meta-analysis of studies on religion and intelligence found that yes, overall, people with high IQs and test scores are less likely to be religious. Researchers analyzed 63 studies on religion and intelligence from the past 80 years with differing results to discover the slightly negative correlation between the two. Unlike previous... Read more

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2013-08-26T18:06:00-05:00

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#Jesus is #HipHop

Last updated on: August 26, 2013 at 6:06 pm By Andre E. Johnson

R3 contributor Dr. Daniel White Hodge discusses his book The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology (IVP, 2010) with Georgetown University student Ghazi Bin Hamed in this latest episode of Faith Complex. Follow Daniel on Twitter @danwhitehodge Read more

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2013-08-25T19:46:00-05:00

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A Continued Look at Sports and Civil Religion

Last updated on: August 25, 2013 at 7:46 pm By Guest Contributor

Last week I wrote a blog post about the potential intersections of race, sports, and civil religion that can be examined by intellectual historians. Today I’d like to conclude my thoughts on that particular matter, with some more analysis of events that I missed last week, and also expound upon comments in an excellent (as always) comments section.Jack Johnson, of course, is an interesting example of how African American athletes are sometimes perceived as adversaries of the American state within... Read more

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2013-08-22T08:59:00-05:00

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This Time It Was Different: #AntoinetteTuff and the Use of #NonViolent Direct Action

Last updated on: August 22, 2013 at 8:59 am By Andre E. Johnson

On Tuesday August 20, 2013, Michael Brandon Hill, a man dressed in black and carrying an AK-47 with 500 rounds of ammunition entered the Ronald E. McNair Learning Academy with the intent of shooting and killing everyone he could. But then he met Antoinette Tuff, the school bookkeeper. In an act of bravery and resolve, Ms. Tuff talked the man into giving himself up to the police and averted what would have been another mass murder on school grounds. While... Read more

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2013-08-21T19:34:00-05:00

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Dr. Frank A. Thomas: Homiletics, #HipHop and the Holy

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 7:34 pm By Andre E. Johnson

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2013-08-20T20:24:00-05:00

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BLACK SUICIDE: When Prayer Is Not Enough

Last updated on: August 20, 2013 at 8:24 pm By Andre E. Johnson

Mental health concerns are among the biggest and most dangerously tabooed topics in Black America. A comedian once said that the only mental condition in the Black community was “a nervous breakdown”. This speaks to the millions of Blacks in the shadows suffering alone, managing the weight of the world in silent bent knee prayer. Perhaps if we ignore it for long enough or fail to name it, it will magically disappear. One of Black America’s most tabooed topics recently re-entered... Read more

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2013-08-19T17:03:00-05:00

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“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

Last updated on: August 19, 2013 at 5:03 pm By Andre E. Johnson

Last week there was a flurry of controversy over the public disinviting of gospel star Donnie McClurkin to a DC celebration of in advance of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The mayor’s office cited numerous complaints from people who felt McClurkin’s “ex-gay” rhetoric was not in keeping with Martin Luther King’s legacy. While even within King’s family there’s a split on the issue of LGBT justice (Coretta Scott King is famously supportive, her daughter Bernice, famously not) an association... Read more

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