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Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

…Christian Woodstock” hosted by the conservative evangelical group Campus Crusade for Christ, packed an estimated 80,000 young believers into Dallas’s Cotton Bowl. (Attendance swelled to 250,000 on the day Kris Kristofferson performed.) The Jesus Freaks’ ad-hoc theology could be summed up in two words: solus Jesus (“Jesus alone”), a “radically Jesus-centric” Christianity (to borrow a phrase from the religious historian Stephen Prothero) that privil…

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Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

…elopments, Cardinal Pell, has a page on Xt3.com, and invites Catholics to “come online and become one of my friends.” This year’s World Youth Day also included a new feature, a “digital prayer wall,” to which participants could text-message from their cell phones and post their requests for others to pray with them in public view. GodTube, a non-denominational Christian answer to YouTube, also includes a digital prayer wall, available online at an…

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The True Meaning of ‘Law and Order’ Became Painfully Clear on January 6

…d them from the premises. Later that day, one of the Black Panther Party leaders, Bobby Seale, read a statement: “The Black Panther party for self-defense calls upon the American people in general and the black people in particular to take careful note of the racist California Legislature which is considering legislation aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless at the very same time that racist police agencies throughout the countr…

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Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

…who are LGBTIQ Muslims in South Africa, the Netherlands, Britain, USA and Canada. I am now preparing a book that features their interviews, to show both the variety of activist activities they engage in and the common issues that they face. That book will be published soon by NYU Press and will be entitled Voices of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslim Activists.   I know you have already commented a bit on this, but can you say more about what so…

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Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “Serious Parody,” Forcing Us to Redefine Nuns

…just whispering at the back of my head. Bonus: Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know about your book? If you’re considering teaching all or part of the book, you might be interested to know that the Sisters have houses (non-residential chapters) in many large cities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. They are often happy to visit classrooms, and they will come in habit to discuss their own perspectives on the order. Becau…

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Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are ‘Serious Parody,’ Forcing us to Redefine Nuns

…just whispering at the back of my head. Bonus: Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know about your book? If you’re considering teaching all or part of the book, you might be interested to know that the Sisters have houses (non-residential chapters) in many large cities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. They are often happy to visit classrooms, and they will come in habit to discuss their own perspectives on the order. Becau…

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Obama Signs Executive Order Making Changes to Faith-Based Office, but Frustrations Remain

…e White House announced that President Obama has signed an Executive Order adopting changes recommended by a task force of the Advisory Council to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The task force on reform was one of six task forces that spent months developing recommendations for the OFBNP, finalized in a report the Council submitted to the president in March. For several months, I have been hearing grumblings from people w…

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Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

…equal protection of the laws.” Since the Equal Protection argument has already been advanced (and affirmed by several federal judges) in existing lawsuits challenging the executive order, the Establishment argument advanced in this latest suit is both novel and essential. It puts under a microscope the faith-based animosity laid bare by the order, which specifically exempts refugees who are “religious minorities” in the seven Muslim-majority natio…

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Glenn Beck’s Political Theology

…nd of new vision or new life. If this is baptism, it is baptism into the dead order, with the players perhaps shuffled but the same old faces and powers in control of the system. Furthermore: the God of the Tea Party, for all he is invoked, has no power to create meaningful change, because to do so might imply that not all in the social and economic order is as it should be. So the Tea Party God is locked up where all such gods are confined: to th…

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Will God-Gaming Alter the Bible?

…ess or failure based on both strategy and luck. However, the promise of an online RPG complicates this comparison, as Civilization allows players to stay at something of a remove from the action, controlling resources and making decisions but not necessarily being directly drawn into the game as a character. The same is true of The Sims. The Bible Online, by contrast, presumably would allow you to play both with a god-like perspective and as bibli…

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