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Watch John Oliver Satirize IRS’ Lack of Church Oversight

By Becky Garrison

…the prevalence of abuse in any church environment lacking adequate accountability structures. Even though the church formally dissolved in January 2015, the distribution of their assets remains buried beneath a myriad of LLCs. (For more on that, go to wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com.) Even should a church be reported for financial misconduct it would hardly matter since the IRS hasn’t investigated a single church case in over five years. Further…

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Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

…e tweet and amended it to a more modest, relativized claim: https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/759855955118919680 Armed with screenshots, some savvy Twitter users documented the hasty edit. Why backtrack? In an email to RD, Stein’s Press Director, Meleiza Figueroa, explained that “there had been a miscommunication among staffers and an earlier draft of the tweet was published online, which was then corrected within a few minutes when the mista…

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How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?

By Christel Manning

…ke of YouTube fame, who “love Jesus but hate religion.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY There are spiritual seekers who embrace bits and pieces of various traditions and don’t want to commit to just one. And there are Nones who are just plain indifferent to religion. What ties these diverse worldviews together is a deep commitment to what I call “worldview choice”—a belief that religious and secular worldviews are expressions of deeply…

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Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…guess where they went? EGYPT! Not Denmark. Tear them down. https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1275113067555303424 King received harsh criticism for his stance, largely from conservative Christians, but his point regarding the impact of portraying Jesus as a white man in contemporary America does require us to grapple with the history of white supremacy and how the image of “white Jesus” functions as a tool of racial subjugation. The continued d…

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DeVos Literally Can’t Name a Discriminatory Policy She’d Refuse to Fund

By Sunnivie Brydum

…public schools one of her top priorities in Congress,” according to Boston.com, grilled the education secretary about a Christian school in Indiana that has received more $665,000 in state voucher funds, while clearly stating that it will deny admission to any child whose family includes LGBT people. As a key architect and backer of Indiana’s uniquely sweeping “school choice” voucher program, DeVos may have already been familiar with Bloomington’…

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The Pope and the Culture Wars

By Patricia Miller

…On the eve of the Pope’s address to congress, RD Senior Correspondent Patti Miller spoke with NPR partner station KPCC about the effect on the culture wars of “[t]he most politicized pontiff in contemporary history.” https://soundcloud.com/religion-dispatches/papal-politics-how-pope-francis-stirs-the-culture-wars-in-dc…

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Facebook’s “No Religion” Policy Hoax

By Gwynne Watkins

…idely debunked weeks ago, and yet it persists. Hovering at #2 on the Snopes.com “Hot 100” list of the most-circulated hoaxes, this one takes the form of a Facebook post by CEO Mark Zuckerberg (and, ahem, spells his name incorrectly). Seen it on your feed lately? It states that Facebook is instituting a “No Religion” policy, whereby “anyone spreading religious beliefs” will have their account shut down and be subject to “investigation.” Because wha…

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Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…shows that Reed’s critique remains as relevant as ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43QTjFCPLtI Nike has failed to promote justice for workers for decades. In 1997 filmmaker Michael Moore lambasted Nike CEO Phil Knight in “The Big One” for allowing young teenage girls to produce Nike sneakers in Indonesian sweatshops. About a decade later social justice educators Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu travelled to Indonesia to live on Nike’s starvation w…

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3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…powerful way ever devised to spread the Word of our Lord,” as JesusTweeters.com posits. Curious to see how people were using hashtags on Christianity’s highest holy day, The Cubit tracked Twitter (and, to a lesser extent, Instagram) activity, turning up plenty of clever marketing, post-church tweeting, and historical rehashing. 1) Easter tweets seem to peak after church When do people tweet out their Easter feelings? The Cubit’s analysis suggests…

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