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Photo of a Dying Man: All the Wrong Reasons

By Rachel Wagner

…ful ritual work. For ritual to have real moral power, it requires context, community, compassion and purpose. So whereas I acknowledge the right of the Post to publish this photograph, I grieve the impulse that prompted its editors to do so, and I mourn the cultural context that would think this a proper thing to do. [Read Jason Anthony’s opposing opinion—“The Journalist’s Job”—here.] The author would like to thank her “Religion and Media” class…

National Catholic Reporter Endorses Women’s Ordination

By Megan Sweas

…ordination closely, and many assumed it supported the cause. Its editorial comes after years of detailed coverage of the negotiations leading to the excommunication of Father Roy Bourgeois, a well-known peace activist who attended the illicit ordination of a woman in 2008. The fact that NCR is just now endorsing women’s ordination speaks to just how strong the Church’s hold on the conversation is. So why now? One of NCR’s own bloggers asked what t…

Pope Follows Himself in Twitter Echo Chamber

By Elizabeth Drescher

…gued that the sorts of digital broadcast messaging projects such as those being undertaken by the Vatican and by other world religious leaders do not, in fact, constitute ministries in that, while they provide broad access to information in a Web 1.0 way, they do not invite the kinds of Web 2.0+ interpersonal engagement that have the potential to extend from digital to local spaces. Such multi-directional interactivity is what’s behind the incredi…

Safety Not Guaranteed

By Jeanne Carstensen

…aches the coast around 6 p.m. We watch its arrival on our big TV, snuggled under a down comforter. The weather graphics show the eye of the storm moving closer and closer to the New Jersey coastline. The closer it gets, the stormier it gets outside. My attention flickers between the virtual hurricane on TV and the rattling and cracking and whooshing sounds of the massive winds now hitting the neighborhood. There is a huge explosion; a flash lig…

Senate Candidate Todd Akin’s Anti-Abortion Acquaintances from the Late ’80s

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…God’s work from a more practical point of view than many fundamentalist Protestant denominations, always reminding members that gaining entrance to heaven isn’t like buying a lottery ticket. There is no magic to it, no speaking in tongues, no handling snakes, no eternal security. You work hard here on Earth, quietly, diligently, to retire in eternity. Your works are an outward manifestation of your faith, and your faith is what saves you. A young…

A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…gh relationship-building, not through shouting matches on cable news or in online comment threads. Today I strive to build a relationship whenever I can—even with people who think that who I am is innately wrong—because if I refuse to engage, how can I hope for change? I’m glad I had the opportunity to not only interact with nontraditional Mormons, but also with more conservative individuals and with traditional institutions like the Orem Utah LDS…

Bush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?

By Paul Harvey

…ion of scholars to create a new history of American evangelicalism and fundamentalism. Schuessler’s piece suggests that it was a counter-reaction to George W. Bush’s two terms that has inspired the renewed focus on liberal Protestants; and then, of course, the election of President Obama, coming as he did from a church that was part of mainline Protestantism (a UCC congregation in Chicago). That’s surely part of it, but what seems equally likely…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…nies and I prayed to the “mystery thing” that is in 99% of us, whirling around and around until we sang “Revolujah! Revolujah!” Suddenly the whole experience ended and everyone was quiet—but no one had made that decision. Let’s keep in perspective the ineffable. Amen? None of the considerations we’ve discussed so far would have mattered much that night. Have you encountered limits to your approach? SD: Sometimes the almost Fruedian anxiety provoke…

In Defense of Richard Dawkins, Awe-Full Scientist

By Alana Massey

…ectly that those that disparaged him were unfamiliar with his scientific accomplishments. I have always found that his remarks on religion, though caustic and sometimes mean-spirited, have served as tools of liberation and justification for untold numbers of of people whose faith communities hurt them far worse than any of Dawkins’ rhetoric might hurt a believer. However, the last few years of petty, sometimes vitriolic social media engagement an…

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

By The Editors

…talking about. Since moving to our new home at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, RD has welcomed scores of new writers, and is on the verge of rolling out a series of key upgrades to the site—an enhanced reading experience, better integration with social media, peace on earth. (We’ll be updating via our newsletter, here.) It’s our birthday, but it’s you who deserve the party (and the gluten-free, kosher, vegan, cruelty-free…