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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

As President Obama signs the health care bill into law today, we are watching the first draft of history. But imagine what students a generation from now will be taught about the most significant overhaul of this nation’s health-care system since Medicare if the conservative activists on the Texas Board of Education are successful at their long-range goal of using the public education system to rewrite history. If publishers kowtow to the board a…

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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

…’ve always been a nation willing to try to package faith for easy resale. Happy-faced entrepreneurial preachers have been a part of the American landscape since the first circuit riders hit the frontier villages. Even today, there’s no difference between Mike Lindell and a dozen televangelists, save a thousand milligrams of lithium. If you have any doubts about the commodification of the healing grace of God, google it for yourself. There’s a part…

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Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

…ly December, allows users to absolve one another’s sins. After passing the application’s obligatory security PIN system (conventional online security measures are the app’s primary faith-orientation), you come to an interface resembling a confessional booth. Through the left door you can “confess,” offering your sins to whoever is listening; behind the closed door you can “absolve” any sins received; and at the far side you can “reflect,” consider…

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Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

…Saint Daniel Comboni, an Italian missionary who fought the slave trade in Sudan, is a holiday in South Sudan. Momanyi says that the church holds South Sudan together. “If the Church withdraws,” he says, the whole country will crumble.” Catholic NGOs have remained in the country when other NGOs have left. The recently formed Catholic NGOs Solidarity with South Sudan and the Comboni Missionaries in particular, according to Momanyi, are training tea…

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The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

…my pocket. Released in late May, the H2Onews iPhone app is the first news application approved by the Vatican. With a touch of my phone I can now get excerpts from the sermons of his Holiness, news from the Vatican, and even the Sunday Gospel. Sporting a sleek interface and a choice of eight languages, the Pontiff has gone 2.0. This might sound like the Vatican is out on the cutting edge, but H2Onews was actually a little slow out of the gate. La…

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‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

…ution, thinking, we’re not coders. What the hell do we do? So they find an app, and they download the app, made by a company similar to Gloo, and they’re just harvesting data. KGV: And it’s easy, and also in terms of churches of course, social media is cheap. Traditional outreach might have been much more time-consuming and expensive, whereas now using data you can easily find people who might be open to an invitation. Part II, in which Kriel and…

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Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

…he Rev Jackson George Gabriel, the curate of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, tells me that he welcomes outside encouragement, confirming that the American branch of his church “are telling us to stand firm against homosexuality”. In a country where President Salva Kiir has said that homosexuality will “always be condemned by everybody”, and where the public shaming of gay South Sudanese by local tabloid media is growing, his stance…

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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

…de, we sounded a note of caution here at RD about the “dark side” of honor code enforcement. After all, the honor code had been created during the 1960s in an effort by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to root out liberals, and honor code enforcement (including anonymous referrals) had been used to bait and harrass feminist, liberal, and gay students, shut down campus free speech, and compromise the privacy of pastoral counseling…

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Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

…15 to reduce the risks faced the sexual and gender minorities in Egypt and Sudan, posted a short documentary, “Queer Voices from Sudan…What is it like to be Queer in Khartoum.” It reports that LGBT people face high levels of legal and social violence. Hungary: Registered same-sex couples win equal tax, inheritance treatment The National Tax and Customs Administration announced that it would stop discriminating against registered same-sex partners…

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Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion

…aybe 232 for the Android, it’s clear that the number of religiously-themed apps is growing. Apps are available for adherents to just about any religious group you can think of (including Pastafarians), and have been developed for a large number of congregations, dioceses, and other religious organizations (though it’s hard to know what one is meant to do with most of them). Prayer book apps, those for on-the-go spiritual practices, and other tools…

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