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RD Turns Six: What’s New, What’s Next…

By The Editors

…ssible way. When we launched it wasn’t yet clear what it meant to publish online, especially as a digital native. Also, in the case of RD, there wasn’t a single legacy publication that we could model ourselves after—at least in terms of the material we wanted to cover. Like other new media startups we had to invent, or co-create, the space we wanted to work in. In this reflective, pre-birthday mood, we were particularly struck by an exchange of v…

Christian ‘Purity’ Guru’s Loss of Faith May Signal a Coming Reckoning For Conservative Christianity

By Elizabeth Shively

…ty), is one example. Others can be found in the #exvangelical movement, an online collective of former evangelicals united not only by religious “deconstruction,” but by politically progressive positions on issues related to racism, gender, and sexuality. Some exvangelicals, though, have left Christianity or organized religion altogether. How American evangelicalism will deal with this movement and where it, and Harris himself, will ultimately lan…

New Book Details Harms of Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement and the Obstacle to Change

By Elizabeth Shively

…, though most simply don’t know what to replace it with. Klein also traces online resistance sites like No Shame Movement, a website on which people share stories about breaking up with purity culture, and #LifeAfterIKDG, which tracks critiques of the hallmark purity how-to text, I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris. Harris himself suggests he’s rethinking his message, and will do so in a film with an anticipated release date in the fall. As P…

Atheists Miss Another #MeToo Moment

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…chick spearheaded an exhibit featuring atheist women who’d been targets of online and real time stalking and harassment. During this period, some organizations implemented anti-sexual harassment and professional conduct policies for secular events. These policies were band-aids over the real issue of power, control, and authority in movement atheism, which is still in the thrall of global figureheads such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, while p…

Louis C.K., Paige Patterson, and the White Male Forgiveness Charade

By Dianna Anderson

In 2012, the now-defunct online magazine Gawker published a celebrity blind item about a famous comedian who liked to pass his time by masturbating in front of and exposing himself to young female comedians backstage at shows. It was quickly surmised, due to reports from within the industry and from people in the know, that the item referred to established comic heavyweight Louis C.K., whose eponymous FX comedy show was in the second year of a fi…

DC Attorney General Goes ‘Religious Freedom’ Route to Investigate Catholic Church

By Patricia Miller

…rs in the last 20 years. However, Racine announced the establishment of an online portal (ReportClergyAbusetoDCOAG.com) to accept abuse complaints, and on Monday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu announced the establishment of a hotline and email address to collect reports of abuse by clerics of any faith. Also on Wednesday, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced that he had opened an investigation into clerical sexu…

Should Satanic Temple Have Threatened Netflix Over Baphomet Statue in ‘Sabrina’ Series?

By Joseph Laycock

…ich “people think the know enough about others to make decisions about how to treat them, but that familiarity is based in ignorance.” In other words, producers looking for Satanic images online likely assumed the Satanic Temple were “just trolls” or otherwise not a “real” organization with the same rights and concerns as everyone else….

White Christian Nationalism May Not Be Religious, But It Is Christian

By Murali Balaji

…hite and non-Christian populations) is built up over time, largely through online portals that function as echo chambers for the blend of history, conspiracy theory, and racism that produces and sustains white Christian nationalism. And we should note that it’s really a resentment movement that wears religion like a hood ornament or team colors. In such a definition, these nationalists are trying to retake what they presume to be lost: white and C…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…on progressive movements. “Are we going to turn [America] into a socialist country [in 2020]?” Mitch McConnell asked earlier this month. “Don’t assume it cannot happen.” In February, Trump used his State of the Union address to declare “America will never be a socialist country,” a theme that already features prominently in his 2020 re-election campaign. Later that month, speaker after speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference…

Satanic Temple’s IRS Recognition Rekindles Fierce Debate Over What Is ‘Really Real’ Church

By Joseph Laycock

…cs the IRS does list, TST meets nearly all of them. Even the attribute of “Sunday schools for the religious instruction of the young,” was arguably met by TST’s After School Satan Club. All the attention that TST has received in the media made it much easier to make its case to the IRS. However, the ability to accept tax-deductible donations will not give TST the same financial resources as its conservative Christian opponents. In an interview, Gr…