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Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…real Joel Osteen Ministries began to receive inquiries. The earliest official denial came from the real Joel Osteen’s Twitter account on April 8 in response to a tweet: “It is a false rumor. Pastor Joel is not leaving the church. -JOM Team,” it read. The media coverage then shifted to reporting on the hoax: “Pastor Joel Osteen Is the Target of a Complex Online Hoax,” read the earliest national news headline, NPR’s on April 8. This was followed by…

Atheist Schism?

By Katie Toth

…theists So Angry: 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, and among those compiling online activist resources for the website. “When you look at the history of other social change movements, that haven’t dealt with racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, xenophobia, and so on, early on in their activist phase… they all wish that they had gone back in time and dealt with it early on.” Atheism does have a problem with xenophobia and anti-Isl…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…moral and ethical culture of the services as those with the highest personal values would be most likely to leave, being replaced, in many cases, by men whose motivation is to share a male-dominated environment with others of similar sexual proclivities. Whether or not a segregated service was initiated, a homosexual subculture of servicemen would form, characterized by intense internal loyalty and political ambition. Eventually, this “army withi…

All the Lonely People: Holiday Blues and the Epidemic of Isolation

By Peter Laarman

…udy them. And the reasons for worry are not hard to fathom: lonely individuals, already lacking strong social connections, tend to feel their isolation much more keenly during a time characterized by heavy socialization and “cheer.” The run of Thanksgiving-to-New Year’s holidays also occur during the time of least available daylight in North America, which means that seasonal affective disorder (SAD) also plays a role in making Yuletide anything b…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…r protests or picketing, such as arson, assault, battery, burglary, hate mail, stalking, suspicious and/or harassing calls, suspicious encounters and packages, theft, vandalism, trespass, IT hacking, bomb threats, death threats, residential picketing, and more. “We can’t get distracted by fear tactics and intimidation,” McCafferty said. “It’s a daily way of life for us and we can’t make a media frenzy every time we’re attacked. We have an importan…

A Tale of Religious Tolerance… On Reddit

By Joanna Piacenza

…member what I looked like, heck, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away. However, my impact and legacy will remain: and, by not focusing on the physical beauty, I have time to cultivate those inner virtues and hopefully, focus my life on creating change and progress for this world in any way I can. After watching his mobile upload turn against him, “european_douchebag” finally apologized to the online communit…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…fice space, only a few miles away from where hundreds of tired, hungry, and desperate people wait for hours in lines that stretch for blocks, to collect gasoline to run the generators that will allow them to go back online, to pretend with the rest of the fully-powered world that everything is normal, that everything is going to be just fine….

Mormon Women Declare “Wear Pants to Church Day” December 16

By Joanna Brooks

…t it. That’s a big surprise. It’s important because it shows that substantial dialogue about gender hasn’t been happening. Feminism has been so silenced that Mormons are not even used to talking about gender issues out loud. Clearly, it’s time to start talking. SL: I am quite surprised at how explosive the pants thing has been. It has been covered by all the television news networks in Salt Lake City, by the Salt Lake Tribune, the Associated Press…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eports that the Pope’s meeting with SOMOSGAY’s executive director Simón Cazal will be his first public meeting with a married gay activist. Cazal married his husband Sergio López in Argentina in 2012. López told BuzzFeed News that the invitation came as a total surprise — the group had not requested to be included in the meeting. Paraguay also is one of the few South American countries where no protections exist for LGBT people or same-sex couples…

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…ed by a very different set of rules than in previous contests for theological legitimacy. And often, when people express doubt on the web, those most ready to answer will also be those most dogmatic in their beliefs. Also on The Cubit: Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church?…