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LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…campaign estimates that 172 LGBT individuals were arrested between October 2013 and December 2015, a figure the group reports is based on media reports. In their statement on Facebook condemning the recent verdict, the campaign stated they document a new case against LGBT individuals every two weeks. Faroe Islands: Civil marriage equality becomes law, but no church weddings On Friday, April 29 the Faroe Islands became the final Nordic country to…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed them marital housing. China: Activists angered over ban on LGBT content online A government ban on online content featuring same-sex relationships has angered many activists, reports the BBC: There are 84 categories of material that were banned from online video programmes by Chinese censors, including prostitution, drug addiction, extra-marital affairs and what authorities deem to be “unhealthy” views of the family, relationships and money. A…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…e. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of York (Pennsylvania) sponsors online workshops, virtual happy hours (“Pub Theology”) and online storytelling for children. Kveller, a Jewish news site, has partnered with My Jewish Learning, a cultural resource site, to connect readers with virtual Shabbat sing-alongs, Torah study groups, and Tehillim (psalm) readings. Despite well-publicized lawsuits to fight church closures, many of the faithful seem…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…, and leads The Trinity Church, in Scottsdale, Arizona, which he founded in 2016. Trinity is now also beset by scandal over the same abuses in authority and control that led to Driscoll’s retirement from Mars Hill at the end of 2014. According to recent accounts his paranoia has intensified, not abated, to the detriment of many Trinity congregants who’ve come forward to tell their stories. Second, the podcast begins with a question that implies bl…

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

…on are breaking, which is why my organization recommended churches go back online while ICU beds remain at or near capacity. And I have to ask: since when is it a Christian attitude to say “I got mine, Jack”? The obligation to protect vulnerable members of the community doesn’t stop at getting vaccinated. It feels weird to declare “We are not in 2020 anymore,” and gross to argue that the cost of not being together outweighs the risk of gathering i…

Christian Founder of Online Dating Site Wants to Ease Gay Pain

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…w with Yahoo! Finance, the 78-year-old Christian co-founder and CEO of the online dating site eHarmony, said being gay or lesbian “has been a painful way for a lot of people to have to live.” But, he’s ready to pony up $10 million “and ask other companies to put up money and do a really first-class job of figuring out homosexuality.” I’m so glad that Warren is so concerned with my “pain” and is ready to start “figuring out” homosexuality. Never mi…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…e who has been published in the last several years can tell you that around 2015 something different and uglier seemed to emerge online. Suddenly the campaign (and subsequent election) of Donald Trump unleashed floodgates of antisemitism that many liberals had long assumed had disappeared. Pernicious antisemitic myths that had long been outside the pale of mainstream discourse were suddenly discussed openly by figures like Trump adviser Stephen Ba…

Like the Bible? You’ll Love a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ T-shirt — How AI Marketing Shapes Identity

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…evangelicals did make up a substantial portion of Trump supporters in both 2016 and 2020. The advertising algorithm may well have been effective in targeting the appropriate demographic, and perhaps we could read this as a reliable method of confirmation of the overlap between Trump-style, right wing politics and Christianity. On the other hand, more than just “evangelicals” (however defined) read the Bible online, and simply because some Trump s…

The Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin

By Kelsy Burke

…sponses), but there’s also plenty of candid talk about sex acts—especially online. On blogs, message boards and online stores, evangelicals receive answers to a wide array of incredibly detailed questions about sex. These websites, unsurprisingly, are strictly porn-free: no videos of intercourse, no nude images. Even terms like “cock” and “pussy” are swiftly deleted by moderators. If websites include images, they are stick figures, line drawings,…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…that would become Facebook. YouTube was just an idea, and wouldn’t appear online in any form until 2005. John Paul did embrace social media as it existed then. He was the first pope to use SMS to send out a daily message to Catholics in 2004, after brokering a deal with Verizon—one of the first troubling commercial agreements between the Vatican and communications companies. For the most part, though, communications technologies at this time seem…