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11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You

By Evan Derkacz

…jack Farms has always been carried Trump, ever since 1884…” https://twitter.com/michaelkosta/status/1324202677979516929 2. This ones speaks for itself. (Or, strictly speaking, for God): https://twitter.com/evandeneykel/status/1324437916181999618 3. This one’s more watchable. Promise: https://twitter.com/chilledasad100/status/1324303206755741697 4. For Republicans still fuzzy on the life cycle of a vote: https://twitter.com/FixYourLife/status/13240…

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 Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…ou’ll read an excerpt below—has surprised me, too. I wish I could find my airline companion and give him this book, to surprise him, too—in a good way. (I would accept Lakers tickets in lieu of apologies, but I think that particular era is done.) This whole book is a result of a profound evolution, and needs to be seen as such. American Muslims have gone through a lot over the last few decades. We were never the caricature Islamophobes made us ou…

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…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…ing in ghettos. As a result, Rothstein told me, “African American family incomes are about 60% of white family incomes, but African American wealth is about 5% of white family wealth. And that difference is heavily attributable to federal race-based housing policy.” It might be psychologically satisfying to blame unemployment on individual laziness, or segregation on prejudiced white homeowners, but this would miss the forest for the trees—or, bet…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…: In “Obama’s FCC Adviser Supports Limits on Talk Radio” FotF’s Citizenlink.com’s Jennifer 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 D…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…the development of an associated online site for Catholic youth called Xt3.com, which Fisher describes as similar to Facebook. The spokesperson for the Vatican on these new developments, 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 t…

The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba

By Sean O'Neil

…hite dresses, singing two national anthems—Cuba’s first, with the gentle accompaniment of 50,000, as if the faithful at church. The devotion was audible, as tickets were distributed to friends of the Cuban government and not through a public sale. Here the religious nature of the Cuban sporting event is acknowledged only to be dismissed as inauthentic. The patriotic, quasi-religious crooning is suspicious because of its apparent production by the…

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,…

Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal

By Chrissy Stroop

…tps://twitter.com/RobGeorge/status/1297948042218426371?s=20 https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1298042172432949253?s=20 On Sunday night Falwell apparently attempted to get ahead of Reuters’ explosive scoop dropped Monday morning by blaming everything on his wife Becki, claiming she’d had an affair with business partner Giancarlo Granda (now forever known as the Falwells’ Pool Boy), “in which I was not involved.” Granda, however, claims that t…