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“Digital Discipline”: Five Questions on #ReLent2016

By Anita Little

…here they are, and they’re all on these online communities. It’s a phenomenal opportunity to share this radical Good News that we have. As much as my dad and other baby-boomers want to say that the internet is a fad, people must realize this is a major shift. Everyday there’s always a link or an article or a discussion of what’s happening in the church. We create content online that isn’t just pointing to a specific church building, that isn’t jus…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…this project moving without delay, shall we? Again, I appreciate that you’ve got your hands full with the Muslims right now. But you also know that you and the Administration in general will look better if you add some balance by also supporting appropriate surveillance of the Christian problem people. I hate to see the faith that I love be stained by the actions of a few, and I’m more than willing to do my part! Yours sincerely, (Rev.) Peter Laa…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…ht-wing media, where outlets like Breitbart have gained substantial political influence. Notably, Breitbart does not define itself as conservative, but as populist-nationalist. It’s a competitor to outlets like Fox News and Glenn Beck, not because it’s conservative but because it’s challenging the conservative establishment. This is as much a media story as a politics one. By removing gatekeepers and lowering costs, the internet has enabled a broa…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…search on two grounds: 1) a shared legacy of British colonial laws that criminalize same-sex intimacy and 2) partnerships with local grassroots LGBT organizations working for human rights…Through the voices of the 31 people in these 25 portraits we learn about discrimination and violence fueled by state, church, workplace, family and community. Most importantly, we hear stories of resistance and resilience: building support within family and commu…

Scientology Woes Continue with Fines and Homophobia

By Gabriel Mckee

…ial harassment” against recruits. The decision wasn’t quite as harsh as it might have been—the prosecutors called for the complete dissolution of Scientology in France—but the PR blemish is a big hurdle for a group that prefers to sweep its problems under the rug. It was a rough week for Scientology in the U.S., too. Screenwriter Paul Haggis, a thirty-five-year veteran of the Church, left due to its regressive attitude toward gay rights. Haggis de…

Looking for Islam in All the Wrong Places: A Response to Nabeel Qureshi

By Jonathan Homrighausen and Elijah Reynolds

…that hundreds of Muslim scholars use to delegitimize the claims of the Islamic State, calling them anything but Muslim. Qureshi rejects the 1400-year interpretive tradition of Islam. He claims that his discovery of the Qur’an and hadith as violent stems from a “literal” reading, “interpreted consistently.” Yet his reading of the Qur’an does rely on tradition—albeit tradition he gets wrong. “…there is no such thing as a simple, literal, consistent…

Standing Up for Contraception Education in Utah

By Joanna Brooks

…ormon and mother of two, converted Brown’s sign into an image that went viral on the internet. Other Mormon mothers blogged and used internet petitions to write candidly about sexuality and sexual education in the lives of young Mormons. Beth Adams, a self-described “progressive and on-the-fence Mormon” and mother of two, who lives in Utah, blogged candidly about sexuality and sexual education in the lives of young Mormons. After the veto, Adams s…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…ted by conservatives in the 1990s. But this is a weak account of intellectual influence. As far as we know, conservative thought leaders never seriously engaged with the likes of the postmodernists Andersen cites, such as Foucault, Baudrillard, or Feyerabend, except to condemn. To give Andersen credit, he recognizes the asymmetry of our post-truth world, and locates its probable cause in religion. He writes, But fantastical politics have become hi…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…pay attention to them, too. In Reno, Clinton may have made a sharp political calculation. As William Saletan argues, the candidate seems to be pushing establishment Republicans to exit Trump’s orbit, and offering them a frame for the schism. The reasoning, perhaps, is that it’s better to have a vocal right-wing fringe movement (like Farage’s UKIP) that has limited access to political power than to have a quieter right-wing fringe movement that, b…

La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

By Joseph Laycock

…velopment of modern Satanism, as they mark “the first instances of individuals calling themselves Satanists, and holding Satanic religious values supported by some degree of organization.” The rivalry between The Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple can present an obstacle to researchers. What do you see as the most important differences between these groups? The foundational basis is quite different, as The Satanic Temple takes inspiration from…