Nobody was lynched. Nobody torched the building. But the exile generation can’t help compare present struggles with a storied past. It hurts.
Author: Alan Bean
The Church is dividing (and that ain’t all bad)
But if preachers start applying the core teaching of Jesus to the moral issues people care about, new theological, moral and political vistas will open.
The quest for monoculture: white evangelicals confront the plague of diversity
When your daughter hides the whiskey, moonshine will do. Even if it makes you blind.
“O Mary, Don’t You Weep”: Sister Miriam’s Jesus
The song of Moses anticipates the conquest of Joshua. The song of Miriam anticipates Jesus, the Second Joshua.
When Women read the Bible
I am in the middle of a ten-part series based on the theory that American white evangelicals have embraced a Pharaoh mindset. In my next post, I will be dealing with Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron. In the course of my research, I stumbled across some really helpful stuff.
Pharaoh sociology: white evangelicals and the plague of social justice
The problem, from Pharaoh’s perspective, is that his slaves aren’t working hard because they’re lazy. Which brings me to a survey question used to detect high levels of racial resentment: “socioeconomic disparities between blacks and whites exist because blacks are just not trying hard enough.”
Evangelicals aren’t worried about climate change; the real threat is science
From the perspective of mainline evangelicalism, environmentalism is the enemy, the plague besetting America; climate change is nothing to worry about. Having been taught from infancy that see American prosperity as a gift from God, the AWE nation refuses to believe that the engine driving our blessed estate is about to jump the tracks. At all costs, capitalism must be defended as the good blessing of a loving God.
White evangelicals and the “plague” of gay rights
The white evangelical rejection of gay rights has created a zero-sum game. More rights for gay Americans means fewer rights for evangelicals. Gay people are regarded as an affliction, a form of persecution, a plague of biblical proportions.
Barack Obama, the reluctant American Moses
Like Moses, Obama is a religious and cultural hybrid.
The Ten Plagues that drove American White Evangelicals to madness
For white evangelicals, 9-11 was particularly traumatic. American was the world’s only superpower. Our power limitless. We were Pharaoh.
Friends of Justice 