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The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ighlighted the centrality of priests in leveraging new social media in the service of the Church, “P2Y,” a Vatican Web site directed to young people inverts the traditional hierarchy, inviting users to post the Pope’s message on their Facebook pages and to send it directly to their priests via Facebook, email, or, for the hopelessly disconnected priest, snail mail. “Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by h…

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

…argument understands the nature and purpose of the church. “Our worship is centered not on simply thinking about certain ideas,” Warren writes, “but on eating and drinking bread and wine during communion.” The issues here are manifold. For one thing, it’s not at all universally accepted among Christians that worship is about more than “simply thinking about certain ideas.” There are many Christian communities who put word far above sacrament. Bapt…

LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ver affirmed, which is one of love for self and others and a dedication to service in the world.” Well, suffice to say, I was informed that following Jesus’ teachings of love and service were not, indeed, enough to be considered a “real” Christian church. This infuriates me. As a member of a group of people who have been excluded, denied membership and generally shunned by Christian churches around the globe, to be summarily dismissed by a website…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…as that feared moment of ‘the call,’ normally issued toward the end of the service by the pastor who, throwing his arms out, would ask: “Are there any among us here tonight who have not yet accepted Jesus Christ into their hearts?” Tears streaming down their faces, the spiritually lost would step up, experience a sobbing jolt as the pastor lay his hands on their heads, and receive their church membership slip. Unprepared to forsake what was a stil…

Why Science and Social Distancing Can’t Replace Healing Supplements and Prayer

By Alan Levinovitz

…ific when respect for scientific authorities is at a premium. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the division of the National Institutes of Health tasked with evaluating “alternative” medicine, put out a warning with a key takeaway in bold print: “There is no scientific evidence that any of these alternative remedies can prevent or cure the illness caused by this virus. In fact, some of them may not be safe to consume.”…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…eries further explore the ways this family moves from the periphery to the center of Caprican culture? So many science-fiction stories depicted the act of producing artificial life as an act of creation: the desire to create a “new Adam” in our own image. And Zoe’s act of creating her avatar and imprinting it with her own memory comes close to that thematic. Much as her God, we are told, has a higher purpose for her, she has created this avatar to…

King Witness’ Story Undermined By Reality

By Sarah Posner

…rs at two Nashville mosques — the Al-Farooq Islamic Center and the Islamic Center of Nashville — for a short period of time. Then he disappeared. What’s more, although Bledsoe blamed his son’s conversion to Islam for his mental health problems, records show those issues pre-dated his conversion: On Feb. 24, 2004, according to police reports, Muhammad was arrested in Knoxville after police found a shotgun and a loaded assault rifle in his car. Duri…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…oves, health minister Ummy Mwalimu in February announced a ban on HIV/AIDS services at 40 drop-in centersthat cater to “key populations” – including gay men, men who have sex with men, transgender people and sex workers – saying they had been “promoting homosexuality.” A program supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and implemented by Save the Children, which was meant to help key populations get HIV treatment, has…

Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course

By Joseph Laycock

…cal allusions that saturate American political rhetoric, survey data shows Americans know almost nothing about religion. Religion scholars (including Diane Moore, Stephen Prothero, and myself) have suggested that change must begin in the schools. The establishment clause does not forbid teaching about religion from a non-devotional perspective and, in theory, students are already required to learn about world religions as part of world history. Bu…

At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

…ectrum. Evangelicalism’s political shield is also a moral excuse. When you center abortion at the cost of all other issues, you center the unborn whose lives are supposedly at stake. The unborn become angels who must be protected at all costs, which means the rest of us—the born and bodied—are of secondary concern at best. Harrowing pictures of families at the border, stories of underfunded school districts, rising economic inequality—these issues…