Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing

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Index abolitionism, 34, 40, 42, 43, 63, 262 abortion: evangelicals politicize, 6, 20, 25, 44, 86, 263; fundamentalist concern with, 194; getting-off-track idea and, 176; in lowincome communities, 187; MEC approach and, 206, 207; Spencer Perkins on evangelicals ’ activism regarding, 94–95; race and concern about, 92, 101; Reed becomes lobbyist about issues such as, 109 activism: Christian, 95, 210; Christians of color on white evangelicals opposing, 69, 72, 77, 82, 273n35; conservative, 86; legal, 190; new activist orientation, 215–17, 221; political , 24, 62, 69, 109, 197, 216, 232; at Resurrection Bible Church, 239, 252, 255; social, 86, 107, 239 admitting racism, 145–47, 149, 159 Adopt-a-Family program, 171 affirmative action: African American pastors support, 100, 110; Christianity Today magazine on, 87, 91, 96; evangelical support for, 86, 174; neoconservatives on, 115; Promise Keepers on, 137 Alianza de Ministerios Evangelicos Nacionales (AMEN), 103, 187–88 Alumkal, Antony, 273n39 American Coalition for Traditional Values, 53 American Council of Christian Churches (ACCC), 64 Ammerman, Nancy Tatom, 269n22 anointing, 131–32 anti-Communism, 50, 52, 64–65, 66, 73, 76 antiprogrammatic argument, 171–76, 191 apocalyptic reconcilers, 142, 143–45, 178 apology-forgiveness rituals, 149–54 Arendt, Hannah, 261–62 Argue, Don, 102 Assemblies of God, 45, 64, 71 avoidance, mechanisms of, 168–70 Azusa Street Mission (Los Angeles), 44, 45 Baptists: Baptist Bible Fellowship, 66; black, 41, 46–47, 48; cling to segregation after Civil War, 46; as dominant in the South, 38, 269n12; Independent Fundamental Baptists, 229, 233, 241, 280n9; racial inequality endorsed by, 39; in social reform movements, 63; split over slavery, 39–40; theological racism in, 38. See also Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Bartkowski, John P., 276n7 Bible study, 129, 130, 167, 230, 243, 246, 251 biblical authority, 130 black church: black Baptists, 41, 46–47, 48; church burnings of 1990s, 96, 107; criticized for not building multiracial churches, 19; in cross-racial social justice movements, 42; evangelicalism influenced by, 38–39; as monoethnic, 198, 201, 244; pastors refuse to tone down politics, 100; in Pentecostalism, 43, 44; Rivers on role of, 112; on social engagement, 64, 75; and Southern Baptist Convention, 41, 52, 54 Bob Jones University, 229, 280n8 Brickson, Darrell, 118, 120, 131 Bright, Bill, 67 broadcasting networks, 65, 68, 85–86 Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church (DeYmaz), 201, 278n11 Campolo, Tony, 111 Campus Crusade for Christ, 17, 67 298 Index Carey, Glandon, 99–100 Carrasco, Rodolpho, 273n36 Central Baptist Church (Orange County, California), 67 Charitable Choice, 112, 115 “Charter of Race Relations” (Southern Baptist Convention), 47–48 Christian Broadcast Network (CBN), 85–86 Christian Century (magazine), 87, 186 Christian Coalition (CC): on immigration, 111; loses its tax-exempt status, 273n30; and racial reconciliation, 85, 96, 106–9 Christian colleges, 91, 97, 103 Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), 103, 236 Christian Community Development movement , 29, 266n5 Christian identity movement, 37, 86 Christian interracialism. See religious racial justice tradition (Christian interracialism) Christianity: activist, 50; American churches as consumer driven, 252; has answer to race problem, 258; justified and perpetuated racial inequality, 54, 57; slavery defended by, 39; slaves convert to, 37, 38; and white supremacy, 34, 60. See also black church; Christians of color; God; Protestantism ; theology Christianity Today (magazine): on Divided by Faith, 181–83, 184; as measure of racial climate, 84, 87–88; presumed readership as white, 88, 105; racial discourse, 1980s and 1990s, 87, 88–106, 107, 110–13, 115; racial discourse, 2000–2009, 183–90, 203, 206; readership of, 272n7; third way found by, 10; Wagner’s editorial in, 70–73, 75; on welfare reform, 106, 110, 112; writers of color hired by, 97 Christians of color: and abortion, 92, 101; in admitting rituals, 146–47; antiprogrammatic argument in, 173–75; on apologyforgiveness rituals, 151–53; asks whites for specific things, 113–14; Christianity Today magazine and, 90, 95, 97, 187; on crossing racial divide, 186; as ERC advocates, 20; increasing numbers in MEC movement, 259; on intentionality, 149; in Mosaix Global Network, 204; and political action, 161–62, 173–74, 211; political orientation of, 173; in Promise Keepers, 104; and redemption story, 57, 59; on religion in civil rights movement, 86; on religious and political justice, 6; at Resurrection Bible Church, 227, 243–48; Skinner on their distrust of white evangelicals, 62; in social justice–aversive story, 58, 59; Southern Baptist Convention attempts to recruit, 54; traditionalism of, 86; on white evangelicals opposing political activism, 69, 72, 77, 82, 273n35; on whites’ de-racialized fantasies of religious...