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Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…t providing entirely new services. Temple Emmanuel, a Reform synagogue in Dal*]}*las, Texas, hosted a Zoom seder for 500 people, despite never having organized congregational seders before. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of York (Pennsylvania) sponsors online workshops, virtual happy hours (“Pub Theology”) and online storytelling for children. Kveller, a Jewish news site, has partnered with My Jewish Learning, a cultural resource site, to con…

A Question for Hobby Lobby Supporters…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…range of things one of which is contraception”? How does “This bill is legal tender for all debts, public and private” NOT amount to “By law, this piece of paper can be used for a range of things, one of which is contraception”? Yes, US dollars have a bigger list of things they can be used for than do health plans, but both include contraception. So is the salient difference the size of the list? Is there some number of things-this-paper-can-be-u…

Mormon Bloggernacle is No Choir

By Krista Kapralos

…, a blog that is included on the list at the Mormon Archipelago, an online portal that aggregates blogs in the Bloggernacle, but she now prefers to write primarily for her own site, where she can be herself. “I felt when I blogged for the Bloggernacle that there were guidelines, you had to be a bit edgy, a bit sacrilegious,” she said. If Shipps’ theory that blogging is the new Mormon gathering is correct, Kendrick is disheartened by the fact that…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…can Organization for Families; Moira Chimombo of SAFE Africa; Rev. Zacc Kawalala of Word is Alive Ministries. Registration is being handled by the African Organization for Families (also described on its website as the African Organization for the Family), which says it was founded “to defend the natural family from various pressures especially from the Western Countries which were imposing among others same-sex unions, abortion and destructive co…

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…ffiti. In addition to Skepticon, Pastafarians have also created International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Pastover, and Ramendon. For functionalists, it is irrelevant whether Pastafarians sincerely believe in their noodly deity. This shared body of symbols and practices has spawned an esprit de corps, uniting philosophical atheists and agnostics into a moral community, meaning that Pastafarianism may well be on its way to becoming a religion—in both t…

Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism

By Chrissy Stroop

…to be matched with theirs. But, and this is the hard thing for people to admit, all theology is a matter of interpretation.” Theology is, further, “an interpretation of texts in which the experiences and influences of the community are refracted.” In light of that, “It makes more sense to say ‘Christian nationalists’ or ‘white supremacist Christians’ than to say that people who have built their identity around Christianity are somehow not Christia…

Getting Married On The Cheap? Step Into My Parlor

By Daniel Schultz

…ids via the internet. And then everyone could march right over to the virtual bowling alley and boogie the night away on Dance Dance Revolution. I know this whole scheme sounds a bit harebrained. Hold a wedding reception in a bowling alley? We do it all the time in Wisconsin, no extra charge. You do however have to pay for the shoe rental. But in these hard economic times, everyone must make some sacrifices. I’d research Wii Vacation, if I were yo…

Eddie Long off the Cross in Time for Easter?

By Anthea Butler

…se, perhaps in the next few days. Reports say that mediation sessions have lasted all day into the wee hours of the morning, even until 3 am. If the mediation is completed during Holy Week, it would be a boon for Long. With no sign of the five smooth stones he was going to throw back in September to defend his name, and the congregation reeling from an investment scandal and layoffs, Long desperately wants to get off the cross of public derision a…

Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech

By Donna Schaper

…that Africa is no longer destitute but is instead cutting edge, both economically and environmentally, and ready to provide leadership to a top-down world. “Please don’t come here to solve our poverty when yours is so apparent,” the message goes. The biggest surprise for me is around women. They (we) are more prominent, more vigorous and more strategic than Paris ever imagined. Just listen to Gender Concerns International, headquartered in The Ha…

Inventing “Jihad”

By Asma Afsaruddin

…pagan Arabs of Mecca. Such understandings, however, could and did prove inimical to the process of empire-building, and the need was soon felt in official and certain legal circles to promote the military jihad as a religiously meritorious activity. This is precisely what happened during the expansion of the Islamic empire after the death of Muhammad during the late seventh and eighth centuries of the Common Era. Certain hawkish scholars, starting…