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All the Lonely People: Holiday Blues and the Epidemic of Isolation

By Peter Laarman

…t the kind of solidarity that fearful and isolated persons tend to acquire online isn’t likely to be informed and enriched by friendship and shared struggle. Their “solidarity” is more likely to be fueled by exclusivist, even paranoid passions: send the immigrants back, stop Obama’s “socialist” juggernaut, kill faggots, wage Christian war on infidels everywhere. The three scholars who wrote about contagious loneliness did not suggest what might be…

For Some of Us, the Biggest Religious Event of 2016 Was the Gilmore Girls Revival

By Isabel Fattal

…tion news coverage, I worried I wouldn’t have it in me to explore the many online debriefs of the Gilmore Girls revival, but it turns out I felt the opposite. I read a think piece about Paris Geller’s inspiring ambition and an essay by a female journalist who grew up alongside Rory; I lamented the final four words with other disappointed fans. I didn’t engage in the conversation (until writing this piece), but I listened. I needed community, and t…

How to Choose a Tour Company for Your Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…’ incredulity), none of the US companies even had their 2010 hajj packages online yet. There was no rush, from their perspective. We are not up against large numbers of people trying to make it—like in Egypt, Indonesia, or Iran. As it happened, not long after I had settled back in the U.S., I came across an ad from a colleague offering a special hajj package, at 30% more than the other companies. When I sent this offer to the friend who was also p…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…ion outlets were running. And the next day, even the reliably skeptical website Jezebel called for a plague on both houses: “it would be nice if this incident could cause BOTH sides of this debate to look at their tactics and really think about how little good it does to terrorize people you disagree with.” Further spinning Keith Mason’s myth of rampaging “pro-abortion criminals,” LifeSiteNews raised the culture-war stakes: “Asked point blank if h…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…el, or imagine possible? This is more than a question of being offline and online, but rather requires a reconsideration of the ways that we now perceive reality, and what we take for granted in how we live our daily lives. Corporate producers of transmedia are not inclined to ask whether or not we should rely upon media as much as we do for contemporary storytelling. Why should they? The more we rely upon it, the more they can sell it to us. And…

Mormon Women Declare “Wear Pants to Church Day” December 16

By Joanna Brooks

…t clearly comes from a place of fear that allows Mormons to justify acting online in ways they’d never act in person. People call for the excommunication of women who would wear pants and cite the loving example of Jesus Christ in the same sentence. But the positive comments have been wonderful. Early on, one woman wrote in, “These are my people!” I feel like everyone wants to belong—being Mormon is your tribe. When you feel isolated from your tri…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or their families. …The seven couples are winners out of 400 entries in an online contest hosted by Alibaba, a huge Chinese e-commerce company based Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with collaboration from Alibaba’s online shopping market, Taobao— where the “We Do” contest was first posted last Valentine’s Day—as well as Blued, the Beijing LGBT Center, PFLAG China, China Luxury Advisors, Bliss, a Chinese bedding brand, the L.A. LGBT Center and the City of West…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rst responded to the LGBT crisis by calling for a ban on LGBT “propaganda” online. The government, which has been locked in a much broader regulatory battle against foreign tech companies, moved in September to block Grindr and is reviewing more than 80 LGBT apps and websites…. “All news and information is dominated by Westerners, by outsiders — they intentionally aim to influence our mind, our way of thinking,” warned Said Aqil Siradj, chairman o…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ing the country on The Unapologetics Tour, in connection with which they visited sites important to evangelical history and subculture, interviewed numerous exvangelicals, and held book readings and events related to the launch of journalist and novelist Hesse’s second novel, Carnality: Sebastian Phoenix and the Dark Star. One of these events took place at City Lit Books in Chicago on Friday, October 12. The well attended event, audio of which is…

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…edia platforms also make vast sums from conspiracy theories. The increased online activity during the Covid pandemic in a feedback loop with the stress and social isolation made people more vulnerable and the platforms richer still. Unrest and uncertainty fuels conspiracy theories which are then given more reach by social media. Yet banning and removing videos is simply taken as confirmation—evidence that they were removed for speaking the truth….