Author Archive
Erin Echols
With Morbid Silence: Christian Denial in an Age of Economic Disparity
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Whether it is in our passionate recitation from the one line of the one Martin Luther King speech we’ve actually read or the long clap that followed our now President’s suggestion that “There’s not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America,” there is something about us that seems to cling to notions of colorblind equality. We assert our equality even in the face of the latest social science research, which suggests our social situations are currently anything but equal in everything from income and wealth to health and infant mortality rates.
Research has quantified this love by finding that white, evangelical, Christians, are some of the best at denying the existence of racial inequality and some of most likely to attribute any recognized inequality to lack of motivation on the part of minorities.
Hipster Pharisees
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Here in the suburban South, new churches sometimes seem like a dime a dozen with many church plants meeting anywhere from shopping centers and warehouse buildings to schools and homes. Often these pastors sport jeans, a polo and maybe even some converses – just for good measure. The lights are bright, the PowerPoints twist and twirl, and a coffee bar greets you at the front door.
