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The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…up on cable television or the world wide web. What is distinct about the iPhone and similar devices is they that they will allow us to dabble in a variety of faith traditions—to test the waters without committing a large investment of time or money, and without risk of public exposure. Thanks to the interactivity available in a smartphone application, we can all become religious dilettantes. A Pew Forum study published last year found that half o…

Gay Marriage Supporters Rally People of Faith for Washington’s November Vote

By Nicole Neroulias

…about their own faith journeys toward supporting marriage equality, gay relatives and friends, explained Andy Grow, Washington United for Marriage press secretary. “In California, they talked a lot about rights, and they didn’t talk enough about what this means for couples, for people who love each other,” he said. “Faith communities are not monolithic, and we have a huge swatch of Christian denominations working with us now.” Discussions during…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…aring the story, she returns home, opens Google India, and tracks down the phone number for the sweet shop her grandfather mentioned. Within seconds, she has called the store on her smart phone, and Yusuf’s grandson—who answers—has likewise opened Google to research visas for a reunion too long denied. We can understand the implications of this storyline by putting it into conversation with its longer historical context. The logic of the plot—that…

How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…hone banks and canvassing registered voters who didn’t cast ballots in the last election, LALMA did far more than take a “tiny step.” The group’s contribution to the larger interfaith effort to pass Prop 47 represented an important shift toward greater civic engagement in immigrant Muslim communities, several of which have the highest growth rates of all immigrant groups in Southern California. The state’s diverse and growing array of Muslims are…

Exclusive: Columnist Jonathan Merritt on his Sudden Departure From Religion News Service

By Kaya Oakes

…mething weird was going on,” because every time he wrote Socolovsky and Gallagher, Gallagher would delete Socolovsky from the email chain. When Merritt’s assistant scheduled a phone meeting with Gallagher to discuss the contract in April of this year, Gallagher never informed Socolovsky about it. When Merritt finally reached Gallagher on the phone in April of this year, he says Gallagher was “placing the blame [for the delay] on Jerome” for not re…

Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement

By Chrissy Stroop

…ong been used by white American conservatives to “justify” human rights violations like slavery and Jim Crow. Appropriating the language of abolitionism is also in line with white conservatives’ proclivity for claiming the mantle of the Civil Rights Movement in bad faith efforts to undermine both racial justice and women’s rights. In the video, Scott explains at length to those in attendance about how to contact their state legislators in support…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…ms impossible. And yet, pi is there, in every sunrise and car tire, every planet and solar system. Are mundane objects the site of the earth’s encounter with infinity? As scientists plumb the universe, they find only nothingness and subatomic buzz; particles that pop in and out of being. The world, humans included, seems to be made of this patternless hum. It’s no wonder so many mathematicians quake at the concept of infinite randomness. We see pa…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…wave into a network news camera, is going to be very disappointed. In the last 20 years, despite large annual crowds, the liberal manufacturers of TV have simply never found the March for Life to be the slightest bit newsworthy. But despite the dubious newsworthiness of an event that’s been happening for nearly 45 years and attracts a respectable, but hardly earthshattering crowd, the mainstream media dutifully reports every year on the march and…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

For two days in late October, I attended Clay Clarke’s MAGA-driven ReAwaken America Tour near my home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Keynote speakers included a predictable Who’s Who of Trump surrogates, including Michael Flynn, Mike Lindell, Roger Stone, and Eric Trump. The real driver of the event, however, was the lineup of dominionist, charismatic, Christian pastors, prophets, and lay leaders who were there to openly declare war on their…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…nothing better to do, and they share only that one joke-book. But what explains the constant number-calling around homosexuality in so many American churches? Why do we rehearse arguments most anyone active in church has already heard dozens of time? Why do we behave like prisoners? I don’t think that long-term veterans of church debates have much hope that undecided people will be persuaded by the repetition. Most of us know that persuasion happ…