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Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…money. In all of these categories, participation was higher among internet users than non-internet users, making clear that digital or so-called “virtual” practice is an important component of the “real” relationships and commitments made by believers today. Texting, blogging, tweeting, and posting on Facebook group pages and personal profiles have become, as I argue in my own forthcoming work on the topic, important modes of relational and spirit…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…the Battle of Shiloh, he simply hoped that “the man that took it will make better use of it than I did.” Ultimately, religion might be a good thing, another soldier said, but there was, he added, “such a thing as having too damn much of it.” Broadening the sources, then, casts some of the ABS’s self-reported successes in a different light. The promise of an institutional history such as this is the depth of the archives available, made more so her…

Is Ken Starr ‘Pulling a Clinton’ on Jewish Studies Professor Marc Ellis?

By Kiera Feldman

…mber to file a complaint against Ellis—which the Starr administration then used as a pretext to open a freewheeling investigation. Ellis added, “They are exaggerating the charges to the point where they don’t even believe it.” (Neither the faculty member nor her lawyer responded to requests for comment. Furthermore, Baylor would not say whether the school had received permission from the woman to release the charges.) In a speech at the American A…

Decoding Rick Warren’s Appreciation for Chick-fil-A

By Elizabeth Drescher

…in the context of a specific interpersonal relationship. However, when you use conservative coded language like “lifestyle” to describe the lives of a particular category or class of people, you are engaging in hate speech, you are perpetuating a rhetoric of fear, even when you surround such rhetoric with words like “love” and “compassion.” You can think you “love” me personally all you want, and you may enjoy my winning personality endlessly. We…

Is Supreme Court Jurisprudence Making State Religious Freedom Bills More Dangerous?

By Sarah Posner

…tion 18 of the Constitution of Mississippi already protects as sacred “the free enjoyment of all religious sentiments and the different modes of worship.” Senate Bill 2681 is unnecessary to protect freedom of belief and worship in Mississippi, and potentially quite harmful. The professors are Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle of George Washington University, Carlos A. Ball of Rutgers University, Sarah Barringer of the University of Pennsylvania, Dougla…

War on Christmas Affirmed by Southern Baptist Convention

By Mark Gstohl

…as unaware that the messengers voted on a resolution to boycott Disney because of its policies toward homosexuals. One resolution approved by the messengers this year that may not be so widely publicized is a resolution “On Affirming the Use of the Term ‘Christmas’ in Public Life.” The resolution denounces secularism as a “pervasive and aggressive movement” fueled by such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union, People for the American Way an…

Will the Catholic Church Throw Cold Water on the LARC Revolution?

By Patricia Miller

…dicating that Catholic providers may be gearing up to make an issue of IUD promotion. Even a referral work-around could dampen the effectiveness of a LARC initiative because it interrupts the continuity of care for female patients, requiring them to get an appointment with another provider in another office at another date. This can deter younger and poorer women, who often have difficulty with transportation or getting off from work or school, fr…

Kristof’s Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

…has upheld and every Democrat reversed, prohibits, by executive order, the use of U.S. family planning funds to NGOs abroad who use other funds to provide abortions or even referrals to abortion providers. It’s widely seen by reproductive health advocates, as Population Action International puts it, as “eroding family planning and reproductive health services in developing countries. There is no evidence that it has reduced the incidence of aborti…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…, agency and voice. The Handmaid’s Tale series feels so relevant today because it focuses on the experiences of a woman living under an oppressive regime. When reproductive rights activists in Texas and Missouri staged protests wearing handmaid’s costumes, it was a chilling statement that the Gilead regime does not seem far-fetched but frighteningly familiar. Patricia Miller: I think it’s important to note that Atwood said she didn’t put anything…

Do the Arguments Against Bathroom Equality Hold Water?

By Patricia Miller

…“aborted a much-needed public debate over whether identity-based bathroom use can and should be regulated as a legal right, or merely left as an option.” But despite the fact that Schuck professes to believe transgender equality is a noble cause, he unnecessarily belittles and trivializes the position transgender kids are in, saying the “only value in play here is transgender people’s desire to affirm their gender identity during their few minute…