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2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…t to religion.” Tunisia: Online radio station for LGBT community debuts An online radio station focused on the LGBT community began broadcasting in December. From Japan Times: The outlet — set up by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights group Shams — aims to tackle deep-rooted hostility in the North African state, where homosexuality is officially illegal. The slogan of Shams Rad station is “dignity, equality” and its presenters include promi…

The Text-Message Fast

By Kate Childs Graham

…ough the hierarchy, or learning from what real faithful people are sharing online. Now, you may want to mark this down because I am about to compliment the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). While some bishops in Italy are pushing for limited technology during Lent, the USCCB has amped up its website to include myriad online resources for people of faith during the Lenten season. The website includes everything from articles and…

Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

By Vincent Gonzalez

…on by gender dissimulators, and financial scams. We forget too easily that online facelessness also facilitates the sacred possibilities of the masked ritual, the voting booth, and the therapist’s couch. From their first moments, online spaces have mingled the privacy of the truck stop bathroom wall and that of the confessional. Penance on the iPhone, whether or not it grows from its larval state, is a fascinatingly unabashed conjunction of the tw…

‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

By B. Howell Belser

…hly coordinated network of staff and volunteers who maintain an impressive online and offline presence. There is no question that the HPA would not and could not exist without the existence of the internet and, more specifically, social networking and new media technology. The sheer number of channels through which HPA staff and volunteers reach out to potential members is staggering. They include old-fashioned email lists, the HPA website, the HP…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…hanges and warps. But this does not mean that speech acts of the far right online and in public are thus useful in exposing us to these ideas. Rather, they’re overexposed: their speech acts function only to introduce oppressive permissibility facts into a given locale, a given community. And thisis precisely the language game that I believe must not be entertained. *** Even with a renewed or improved focus on the way oppressive speech acts work, I…

Illinois Bishop Greets Marriage Equality with Exorcism

By Peter Montgomery

…f God and sift them like wheat,” he continued. In an unusual use of public services, the exorcism included two armed Springfield police officers stationed inside the church vestibule where parishioners entered from the street. At one point during the service, one of the officers strode to the front of the church, though his purpose was unclear. There were no disruptions during the hourlong event. “Be gone Satan, father of lies, enemy of human salv…

The “Nones” Are Here… And Have Been for Over 100 Years

By Emily Mace

…inent Jewish leaders. Adler’s reason for holding such ritualistically bare services are surprisingly relevant, perhaps, to today’s religious “nones.” Said Adler: “You may have holier moods on a Tuesday than on a Sunday; you may enter into larger communion with the spirit of nature in the woods or by the sea. You may! But, as a matter of fact, actually do you?” Wouldn’t it be better to attend any kind of service—even one as secular as theirs—to inc…

Is Joel Osteen, Success Mag Cover Boy, Really “God’s Best”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…life growing up, others from e-mail. He hears more stories after a worship service, where as many as 1,000 visitors are invited to meet him. I apparently missed the seminary class that taught pastors not to get “sidetracked in controversy.” Instead, my classes taught me that it was theologian Karl Barth that counseled pastors to use both the Bible and the newspaper in their preaching, but Osteen will have none of that. Anything that might get in t…

Proposition 8—the Rematch?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ications, now the AFA reaches hundreds of thousands through e-mail alerts, online newsletters, its OneNewsNow news service, and its radio broadcasts heard on AFA’s 195-station national radio network. The AFA’s report noted that its Web site “is attracting some 1.2 million visitors each month, which reflects a growth of over 400% in the past 12 months.” The AFA claims that “over two million people can immediately share their opinions with policymak…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…ople to enter the Capitol building. His defense lawyer emphasized his navy service, and his diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder, calling him a “peaceful guy.” After sentencing, in a video of him speaking from prison on the phone, Angeli renounced his lawyer and his mitigation plea of mental illness. The story he tells now is that he’s not crazy but acting on the invitation of President Trump. In preparation to appeal his sentence, he’s h…