Pricey Revealer readers,
I’m delighted to share some great information. Final month, the Faith Information Affiliation, the skilled group for faith journalism, awarded The Revealer with the group’s first-place prize for “Excellence in Journal General Faith Protection,” the best award for a print or on-line journal. We’re thrilled with this honor!
The Revealer Editor, Brett Krutzsch
The award was for The Revealer’s particular situation on “The Menace of Christian Nationalism,” which we printed in October 2024. The articles within the particular situation stay as related right this moment as once we printed them a number of months in the past. In the event you haven’t learn the particular situation, I encourage you to take action. It covers things like why individuals who help Christian nationalism usually tend to help authoritarianism and political violence, the push for white Christians to have extra youngsters, Charismatic Christian Paula White-Cain as Trump’s non secular advisor, the organizations working to erode democracy, and the best way to push again towards this anti-democratic and Christian nationalist momentum. Yow will discover the award-winning particular situation right here. And, let me formally congratulate the authors within the particular situation: Katherine Stewart, Andrew Whitehead, Matthew D. Taylor, Bradley Onishi, Sammuel Perry, and Sophie Bjork-James. Their analysis and writing about Christian nationalism are of nice worth to all of us.
And, we have now much more thrilling information! The Faith Information Affiliation additionally honored The Revealer’s columnist, Gillian Frank, with the second-place prize for “Excellence in Commentary on Faith” for the articles in his “Greater than Missionary” column. The column explores gender, sexuality, reproductive rights, and faith. In the event you haven’t learn his column, I encourage you to test it out. Yow will discover his award-winning “Greater than Missionary” column right here. Congrats, Gill!
We enormously respect this recognition for The Revealer and for our writers. And, we’re dedicated to persevering with to give you high-caliber writing about faith. To that finish, our Might situation explores faith across the globe. The problem opens with Gillian Frank’s latest installment in his now award-winning “Greater than Missionary” column with “A Life within the Battle for Reproductive Freedom,” the place he explores the docs and spiritual organizations that risked the whole lot to offer abortion and reproductive healthcare earlier than Roe v. Wade and what classes these people and organizations provide us right this moment. From there, we head to Russia, the place in, “The Political Significance of Orthodox Christian Literature in Putin’s Russia,” Tim Brinkhof examines the function of spiritual literature in offering help for Putin’s regime, together with his invasion of Ukraine and his antagonism towards the West. After that, we head to India, the place in “The Sikh State Constructed on Migration Overseas Now Wrestles with Migration Inside,” Anuj Behal investigates discrimination towards migrants in Punjab, a majority-Sikh state historically recognized for its welcoming hospitality and for sending lots of its personal residents abroad as migrants themselves. From there, we enterprise to Turkey, the place in “The Candy Style of Prayer,” Lisa Morrow explores the Muslim Turkish custom of distributing free candy, fried balls of dough after somebody has died and on particular events. Morrow investigates the historical past of this tradition and what it reveals about life in Turkey right this moment. After that, we return to america to take a look at two examples of faith and activism. In “Greg Bourke, Homosexual Catholic Activist, on Why It’s Extra Essential to Keep and Combat,” Jerry Portwood interviews one of many plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges about his Catholic religion, the function it performed in his battle for marriage equality, and his authorized battle towards the Boy Scouts of America when the group fired him for being homosexual. Then, in “Religious Wellness as a Software to Fight Racism,” an excerpt from Black Panther Lady: The Political and Religious Lifetime of Ericka Huggins, Mary Frances Phillips discusses a distinguished feminine member of the Black Panther Celebration and the non secular practices she cultivated to proceed her battle for racial justice. And, for our last article within the Might situation, in “People Leaving Faith,” an excerpt from Goodbye Faith: The Causes and Penalties of Secularization, Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith examine why so many individuals are now not inquisitive about organized faith and what meaning for america right this moment and within the a long time to come back.
The Might situation additionally consists of the most recent episode of The Revealer podcast: “A Black Panther Lady, Spirituality, and Right this moment’s Activism.” Mary Frances Phillips joins us to debate what precisely the Black Panther Celebration was, what it got down to obtain, and what parallels exist between right this moment and when the Black Panthers first began. We additionally talk about Ericka Huggins, a distinguished feminine member of the Black Panther Celebration, the non secular wellness practices she developed to maintain her activism, how these practices helped others, and what classes all of this provides right this moment’s activists. You possibly can take heed to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
As I take into consideration these most up-to-date awards for The Revealer, each for the particular situation on Christian nationalism and for Gillian Frank’s column on faith and reproductive rights, I’m struck by how I want neither subject was so pressing. However each subjects are extremely essential proper now. And due to that, I’m delighted we’re in a position to present an area for such astute and obligatory writing about these points. It fortifies my conviction about how very important this work is right this moment. And it solidifies my dedication for The Revealer to proceed offering you with incisive writing about faith in right this moment’s world.
Yours,
Brett Krutzsch, Ph.D.
Pricey Revealer readers,
I’m delighted to share some great information. Final month, the Faith Information Affiliation, the skilled group for faith journalism, awarded The Revealer with the group’s first-place prize for “Excellence in Journal General Faith Protection,” the best award for a print or on-line journal. We’re thrilled with this honor!
The Revealer Editor, Brett Krutzsch
The award was for The Revealer’s particular situation on “The Menace of Christian Nationalism,” which we printed in October 2024. The articles within the particular situation stay as related right this moment as once we printed them a number of months in the past. In the event you haven’t learn the particular situation, I encourage you to take action. It covers things like why individuals who help Christian nationalism usually tend to help authoritarianism and political violence, the push for white Christians to have extra youngsters, Charismatic Christian Paula White-Cain as Trump’s non secular advisor, the organizations working to erode democracy, and the best way to push again towards this anti-democratic and Christian nationalist momentum. Yow will discover the award-winning particular situation right here. And, let me formally congratulate the authors within the particular situation: Katherine Stewart, Andrew Whitehead, Matthew D. Taylor, Bradley Onishi, Sammuel Perry, and Sophie Bjork-James. Their analysis and writing about Christian nationalism are of nice worth to all of us.
And, we have now much more thrilling information! The Faith Information Affiliation additionally honored The Revealer’s columnist, Gillian Frank, with the second-place prize for “Excellence in Commentary on Faith” for the articles in his “Greater than Missionary” column. The column explores gender, sexuality, reproductive rights, and faith. In the event you haven’t learn his column, I encourage you to test it out. Yow will discover his award-winning “Greater than Missionary” column right here. Congrats, Gill!
We enormously respect this recognition for The Revealer and for our writers. And, we’re dedicated to persevering with to give you high-caliber writing about faith. To that finish, our Might situation explores faith across the globe. The problem opens with Gillian Frank’s latest installment in his now award-winning “Greater than Missionary” column with “A Life within the Battle for Reproductive Freedom,” the place he explores the docs and spiritual organizations that risked the whole lot to offer abortion and reproductive healthcare earlier than Roe v. Wade and what classes these people and organizations provide us right this moment. From there, we head to Russia, the place in, “The Political Significance of Orthodox Christian Literature in Putin’s Russia,” Tim Brinkhof examines the function of spiritual literature in offering help for Putin’s regime, together with his invasion of Ukraine and his antagonism towards the West. After that, we head to India, the place in “The Sikh State Constructed on Migration Overseas Now Wrestles with Migration Inside,” Anuj Behal investigates discrimination towards migrants in Punjab, a majority-Sikh state historically recognized for its welcoming hospitality and for sending lots of its personal residents abroad as migrants themselves. From there, we enterprise to Turkey, the place in “The Candy Style of Prayer,” Lisa Morrow explores the Muslim Turkish custom of distributing free candy, fried balls of dough after somebody has died and on particular events. Morrow investigates the historical past of this tradition and what it reveals about life in Turkey right this moment. After that, we return to america to take a look at two examples of faith and activism. In “Greg Bourke, Homosexual Catholic Activist, on Why It’s Extra Essential to Keep and Combat,” Jerry Portwood interviews one of many plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges about his Catholic religion, the function it performed in his battle for marriage equality, and his authorized battle towards the Boy Scouts of America when the group fired him for being homosexual. Then, in “Religious Wellness as a Software to Fight Racism,” an excerpt from Black Panther Lady: The Political and Religious Lifetime of Ericka Huggins, Mary Frances Phillips discusses a distinguished feminine member of the Black Panther Celebration and the non secular practices she cultivated to proceed her battle for racial justice. And, for our last article within the Might situation, in “People Leaving Faith,” an excerpt from Goodbye Faith: The Causes and Penalties of Secularization, Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith examine why so many individuals are now not inquisitive about organized faith and what meaning for america right this moment and within the a long time to come back.
The Might situation additionally consists of the most recent episode of The Revealer podcast: “A Black Panther Lady, Spirituality, and Right this moment’s Activism.” Mary Frances Phillips joins us to debate what precisely the Black Panther Celebration was, what it got down to obtain, and what parallels exist between right this moment and when the Black Panthers first began. We additionally talk about Ericka Huggins, a distinguished feminine member of the Black Panther Celebration, the non secular wellness practices she developed to maintain her activism, how these practices helped others, and what classes all of this provides right this moment’s activists. You possibly can take heed to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
As I take into consideration these most up-to-date awards for The Revealer, each for the particular situation on Christian nationalism and for Gillian Frank’s column on faith and reproductive rights, I’m struck by how I want neither subject was so pressing. However each subjects are extremely essential proper now. And due to that, I’m delighted we’re in a position to present an area for such astute and obligatory writing about these points. It fortifies my conviction about how very important this work is right this moment. And it solidifies my dedication for The Revealer to proceed offering you with incisive writing about faith in right this moment’s world.
Yours,
Brett Krutzsch, Ph.D.
