Earlier this month we did a post on Hailey Branson-Potts’s Los Angeles Times piece on the New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement. Over at Slate, religion writer Ruth Graham also has a piece on this brand of ultra-fundamentalism. Here is a taste...
Robert Jeffress, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, is at it again: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-YZggTrG7k&w=560&h=315] Jeffress is quick to condemn such “hate speech.” Yes, this is the same guy who: Has not addressed in any substantial way the...
If you want to understand what happened in Charlottesville and hate in America, this is a good place to start. Here is a taste of Catherine Halley‘s introduction to JSTOR Daily’s Charlottesville syllabus: It has been a difficult week in...
Jon Meacham lays it out for us in this piece at Time. Here is a taste: The message was clear. The fate of America — or at least of white America, which was the only America that counted — was at...
Rebecca Barrett Fox is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University. This interview is based on her recent book God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University of Kansas Press, 2016). JF: What led you to write...
