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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…html#loaded. [64] “Agenda 47,” Donald J. Trump for President 2024, https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47. [65] Donald Trump, “Agenda47: The American Academy,” Donald J. Trump for President 2024, November 1, 2023, https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-the-american-academy. [66] Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Swan, “Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans,” The New York Times,…

I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…guys and girls. But in a time of declining demographics, and an upswing in online dating, the popularity of such parishes appears almost as an act of defiance. According to the Pew Research Center, the Catholic share of the population has been dropping steadily and getting older. To make matters worse, 41 percent of Catholics ages 18-30 could imagine leaving the Catholic Church someday. While 10 percent of millennials still consider themselves to…

Christian Founder of Online Dating Site Wants to Ease Gay Pain

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Yahoo! Finance, the 78-year-old Christian co-founder and CEO of the online dating site eHarmony, said being gay or lesbian “has been a painful way for a lot of people to have to live.” But, he’s ready to pony up $10 million “and ask other companies to put up money and do a really first-class job of figuring out homosexuality.” I’m so glad that Warren is so concerned with my “pain” and is ready to start “figuring out” homosexuality. Never mind that…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…depends on the extent that one’s religious worldview is imported into the online world. Second Life In the online world of Second Life, “residents” design their own avatars and engage in unscripted encounters, making real religious dialogue a possibility. Rita King (and her avatar Eureka Dejavu), engaged in some tough discussions about cultural differences with Muslims, as reported in Dispatches From the Imagination Age. Eureka describes a time w…

E-vangelism: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Blog-Ranking

By Pauline Hope Cheong

…working. As competition in the religious marketplace heats up, branding of online sites with theological labels and reasons may be ever more important to ensure that faith publications and parishes survive. But let’s remember that fierce religious devotion is also in competition with e-commerce profiteering. God or Mammon? On some sites promoting a “family-friendly, safe, protected environment” we are seeing both. Flash advertising banners frame s…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…Recently Bishop Anthony Fisher announced the development of an associated online site for Catholic youth called Xt3.com, which Fisher describes as similar to Facebook. The spokesperson for the Vatican on these new developments, Cardinal Pell, has a page on Xt3.com, and invites Catholics to “come online and become one of my friends.” This year’s World Youth Day also included a new feature, a “digital prayer wall,” to which participants could text-…

Praying Upon a Star: Michael Jackson Spectacle Highlights Online Rituals

By Pauline Hope Cheong

…participate in the creation of their own ritual and symbols of remembrance online. Take for example, an online video entitled “A Special Tribute” to Michael Jackson posted on Tangle.com, a faith-based, family-friendly social networking site. Like many amateur videos online, this three-minute work features a Powerpoint slide show of pictures, accompanied by song and subtitles. However, what is especially interesting for contemporary religion and cu…

Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…turbing about the interview was the way his justification for starting the site mirrors the reasons I used back in 1996 when I began my own online magazine, Whosoever, for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Christians. I don’t think my site was on the web for five minutes before I started receiving hate mail demanding that I take the site down because it was an affront to God. I was told then, and many still say even today, that there’s no suc…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…ommodations—like a parking lot. It might look to Lourdes to improve its website: on the official site for the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, visitor FAQs tell you how to get to Lourdes, how to get your hands on some holy water from the grotto, and how to leave an ex-voto offering (look elsewhere for hotel bookings—there are dozens of hotels in Lourdes, all advertising their proximity in meters and yards to the grotto). If you can’t travel, stay…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…and submitted to Mpofu “as a mentor in prayer.” As she recounts it on the WWW Web site: [God] revealed to me that if I would submit myself and these women under the spiritual leadership of Pastor Vicky that He would raise up an international army of mighty warriors, and together we would enter into a realm of intercession that would change nations. The following year, seeking to assist the family of Rami Ayyad, a Christian bookstore owner who was…