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London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…simply as ferociously bad manners that can be corrected by cutting off social media access—invite more of the same. Absent religious institutions, soccer grounds, or other outlets as sites for organized repression and/or expression of the powerlessness and hopelessness that characterizes youth culture in places that simmer like East London all over the economically floundering developed world, more such outrage is always just one blind, stupid au…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…in front of the enormous granite LDS Conference Center, kissing a small Brazilian flag. Young Tongan men stand squarely in groups, palming thick books of LDS scripture, wearing tupenu—traditional calf-length linen wraparound skirts–with their white shirts and ties. Gauntlets of young locals in dark suits line walkways on the north side of Temple Square, cheerfully singing hymns from the screens of their iPhones or from green-backed hymnals, while…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…homeschoolers, and believers who embrace this vision of history, find themselves at the center of the plans of Almighty God, building “multi-generational faithfulness”; a moving and heady experience, no doubt. On the Daily Show, Huckabee responded to Stewart’s charge that Barton is a theologian not a historian by saying that he doesn’t believe that Barton is advocating an establishment of religion. But Barton’s effort to shape how history is taug…

“Equality is Not a Feeling”

By Joanna Brooks

…heir righteous desires to fully participate in the church,” said Ordain Women participant April Young Bennett. Nancy Ross, a professor at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, who studies digital media and Mormon social movements, found in a post-event survey that the vast majority of Ordain Women supporters and participants surveyed—77%—attend church three times a month or more….

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…Burke is commonly associated with moving the papacy toward a more hip, social-media savvy approach to getting out its word. It works. Papal tweets are new. But more important than 140 characters at a time are the remarkable visuals, photo ops that don’t quit, moving gestures of a humble, caring man projected for the world to see and imitate. Only a craven critic would pass over these as trivial. Still, I am left with a feminist theologian’s duty…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…an Party for quite some time. It’s too early to tell whether this wing of the Party will indeed establish itself as the new orthodoxy. I have my doubts. But even if they do, the victory will be a Pyrrhic one, resulting (as both Paul’s symbolic victory in the New Testament and Tertullian’s Christian self-exile did) in mass expulsions of those with variant points of view on the central articles of the faith, and those less convinced that absurdity i…

When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…r looking for any deep symbolism—you won’t find it. Anybody in France immediately recognized the resemblance to the poster for Intouchables (The Untouchables), which came out almost a year ago and sold twenty million tickets in France (and nearly as many abroad). Intouchables is a funny and moving comedy, but as politically correct a story as you’ll find: a black young man bordering on delinquency is hired by a tetraplegic wealthy man to be his as…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…al Asia, Muslims remained ruled by Communist holdovers propped up by a Russia desperate to save its “near abroad”. Having seen what happened to Chechnya, it’s not surprising there’s little move to break free. There are, of course, sadly plenty of conflicts in which Muslims are involved, as aggressors, and worse still, plenty of Muslims who justify their sadism, barbarism and immorality in the name of Islam. The best response to Richard Dawkins is…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…c! Let’s face it, gay sex is completely titillating to heterosexuals, especially conservative Christian heterosexuals. They can’t stop thinking about us in bed! Remind me again, who’s the perv here? If the number of partners one has, the amount of time one spends in clubs, and what kind of sexual abuse one has suffered in their lifetime makes a person gay, then I suppose I ought to turn in my lesbian card. I can count the number of sexual partners…