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10 Pro-LGBT #ChristiansVote Tweets From Anti-Gay, Pro-Trump Hashtag Hijack

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s hashtag hijack on Wednesday, exactly one week before Election Day. https://twitter.com/BelieveOutLoud/status/793831195364687873 Consider the tweets below a form of self-care, and a gentle reminder that people really can be good, tolerant, and loving, despite the vitriol that surrounds us. 1) https://twitter.com/UAB_Shoob/status/793573502251044864 2) https://twitter.com/maco_nix/status/794174938475352064 3) https://twitter.com/LizWelchLive/stat…

The 11 Best #RealClergyBios Tweets

By Anita Little

…chose this vocation or that we are working in white/Anglo churches. https://twitter.com/CandyCornball/status/693615071679889408 https://twitter.com/ReverendFem/status/693549287939137536 https://twitter.com/nathanarussell/status/693194432607158272 https://twitter.com/revstacey/status/693179446203813888 https://twitter.com/miheekimkort/status/693179157711187968 https://twitter.com/Nathaniroberts/status/693169616550498304 https://twitter.com/GodWelc…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…een perfected yet. If they’re not smash hits, faith films haven’t all been complete commercial misses either. The first installment of The Chronicles of Narnia brought a big profit for Walt Disney and Walden Media—around $750 million globally. After a few films, the franchise stalled, though. Rising production costs, declining ticket sales and increasingly mixed reviews led to conflict between the various production companies. There’s currently a…

The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba

By Sean O'Neil

…a is a believer in that legacy. But the power of sports to produce heightened emotional states of unity, which scholars call “collective effervescence,” can also give it a shared power with religion to occlude injustice in this world, to bury it in cheap, playful sentiment. Sports, like religion, and like the American Dream, will thus continue to be contested symbolic terrain, where the stakes can prove much more complicated than zero-sum games, a…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…all its ecstasies and disappointments, it is a journey to faith that began with the loss of it. [We are grateful to the author, editors, and publishers of All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim for permission to reprint this excerpt. —The Eds.]…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

…s exemption if granting it impacts the rights of others (in this case, the companies’ employees) and whether, as the companies assert, the Affordable Care Act’s regulation on coverage for preventative care is actually accurately termed a “mandate.” Sotomayor, after noting that “we’ve never really considered a for-profit corporation as exercising religion,” asked whether “there is another choice of paying the tax” rather than providing a group heal…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…r Mesko reported that Obama named Henry Rivera, former head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “to run the team that will select the next [FCC] chairman. Mesko, maintaining that Rivera “is a longtime proponent of the so-called Fairness Doctrine,” reported that “Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the Fairness Doctrine would force stations to stop addressing important policy issues”: “A Christian ra…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…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…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…to the rally, organizers had been meeting people at the airport and in the community, coaxing them to take on an improbable battle against Alaska Airlines, the Port of Seattle, and the airport corporate establishment. The April rally was our first big campaign test. Would people turn out? They did–850 of them. And the boisterous march, the chants in different languages, the flags of many nations, and the auspicious April sunshine all boosted the c…

Mormon Women Knock at the Door, Are Turned Away

By Holly Welker

…General Meeting, while women’s exclusion from the priesthood session is so complete that special arrangements must be made to enforce it. In the April 2007 priesthood session, a musical number was provided by a men’s chorus. The chorus was selected and trained by Brigham Young University professor Rosalind Hall, who also chose the music for the choir—but Hall was not allowed to attend the performance; instead, she was replaced by a male colleague,…