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Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…A & currently the Masons are under investigation for criminal conspiracy & online criminal libel for making numerous false reports of child abuse against an innocent family. [Link to Enyart charges added, but no corroboration could be found for the allegations against the Masons —Ed.] Bob Enyart is an influential pastor of the Denver Bible Church, under whose auspices the Masons organize—he’s an inflammatory anti-gay, anti-choice activist and nati…

A Tale of Religious Tolerance… On Reddit

By Joanna Piacenza

…b “Funny,” hoping to get an elbow-in-the-side snickering reaction from the online community. But what happened next speaks volumes of Reddit contributors. Although many of the mostly white, liberal, and somewhat-educated young male audience showed their ignorance for diverse religious values, most bit back. Reddit peers verbally tore “european_douchebag” apart, castigating him for not only taking a creepy smartphone picture of an innocent young wo…

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

By Rachel Wagner

…eal sense of empowerment and belonging as a result of gaming environments, online worlds, discussion boards, and real-life fandom events. Jane McGonigal’s argument in Reality Is Broken (2011), that games can give us a sense of accomplishment and confidence that spills over into our real lives, is not wrong. And fandom, of the kind that brings people together in joyful imaginative play, as I saw at Comic Con, represents the best of Victor Turner’s…

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…

“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…t. Today, the GBarn has a prominent place within Christian/Islamic debates online and is known to many Christians as well as Muslims. Recent speculation about the Syriac manuscript in Turkey, moreover, dovetails with the growing place of this gospel in the realm of Internet conspiracy theories about Vatican secrecy. Theories about its suppression may have been developed many centuries ago, but they speak no less to our own age—a time in which onli…

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…of their influence offline. You can see this, for example, in the world of online Judaica, where two organizations—Aish HaTorah and, especially, the Chabad Lubavitch movement—have developed enormous, accessible websites offering answers on everything from gefilte fish recipes to evolution. In the context of American Judaism, both organizations are unusual: Chabad is a messianic Hasidic sect; Aish, as I’ve chronicled before, is a right-wing organiz…

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…

Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t features a soldier broken up with by his same-sex partner.” The official online version of the video was removed by YouTube after users flagged it on grounds that it violated community guidelines. Cached backups of the episode remain online. The Alliance of Crying for Hope (搶救台灣希望聯盟) blasted the “Rainbow” segment — calling the government “shameful” and “needing medical attention.” “Imagine what kind of island Taiwan would become if the military…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…quiry into the website My.Kali, a Jordanian queer-inclusive social affairs online magazine published since 2007. The commission concluded that same month that the magazine had violated the Press and Publication Law and issued instructions to block access to its website in Jordan. … The law defines online publications subject to the licensing requirement as those that “engage in publication of news, investigations, articles, or comments that have t…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…graphically scattered, community building until now has taken place mostly online. In 2018, however, exvangelicals organized some public offline events, hoping to inspire more local community formation and to build synergy between online and offline activities. Exvangelicals successfully crowdfunded a roundtable discussion—The Exvangelical Community: Paths, Projects, Prospects—that took place at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Florida, on Se…