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The Theology That Inspired the Poway Synagogue Shooting (and New Zealand) Remains Strikingly Commonplace

By Ivan Strenski

…ish to eliminate Jews and other perceived enemies. In particular, the same site hosts numerous posts voicing ideas that the Earnest family would find all too familiar. Populating these sites is a supersessionist or “replacement” theology native to the Earnest family’s Orthodox Presbyterian creed. Some of these posts make portentous apocalyptic anti-Semitic threats. These, tellingly, articulate the same “replacement” ideology/theology made notoriou…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…en to be sexually promiscuous before marriage” (emphasis in original). The site encourages people to go to the American Life League’s anti-Planned Parenthood STOPP site for more information. ALL and its project STOPP (which 40 Days for Life founder David Bereit once headed) were once considered the fringe of the anti-choice movement. All that has changed as the Republican Party has taken up calls to shut down Planned Parenthood and restrict acces…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…ub Theology”) and online storytelling for children. Kveller, a Jewish news site, has partnered with My Jewish Learning, a cultural resource site, to connect readers with virtual Shabbat sing-alongs, Torah study groups, and Tehillim (psalm) readings. Despite well-publicized lawsuits to fight church closures, many of the faithful seem to be accepting these changes. Weston Smith, who attends Restore Community Church, a non-denominational Protestant c…

A Note to Our Readers

By The Editors

…ed or kept in touch as much as we should. Now as we prepare to upgrade the site and expand our mission, we’d like to fill in some of the blanks. Religion Dispatches is not published by an independent 501(c)(3), but has been reliant, since its inception, on a series of institutional sponsors (universities primarily, as RD was the brainchild of religious studies/theology professors back in 2006). Finding the right home for a project like RD is a cha…

Can Art Save Us From Fundamentalism?

By Philip S. Francis

…so many of the post-evangelicals in this book come to refer to the arts as sites of “transcendence” and a “stand-in for faith” is in keeping with the times. This book gives us a chance to see how that untidy “substitution” of art for religion takes place within the course of one lifetime. The misconception that evangelicalism is monolithic, and that all evangelicals are against good (modern) art. This relates to a broader, common, lazy assumption…

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

…oying our common livelihood. A Site of Pilgrimage Already While a poster onsite says “no pilgrims,” it refers only to the Puritan settlers of history. In fact, the Oceti Sakowin camp receives many pilgrims each day. They come from indigenous nations around the world, and there are many instances of sharing of food and resources. When I was there for the second time, for a few days this week, donations of food were rolling in heavily, firewood was…

Free Will, Fate and FiveThirtyEight: The Theology of Election Polls

By Alan Levinovitz and Michael Schulson

…of big data, are omniscient. They beat us at chess, at Go. With prediction sites, they can see into the future. Part of the appeal with Silver’s site, I think, is that he lays bare the cogs of the algorithm. To me, though, there’s something unappetizing about it. It reminds me of this story where Target started sending ads for baby stuff to this house. The dad there was like, what’s going on? Turns out that his daughter was pregnant, and Target ha…

Ghosts of Halloween Past

By The Editors

…s know that eerie goings on had compromised their ability to re-vivify the site so we summoned a coder (contemporary shaman) who infused it with borrowed life. And so RD carries on. With only the slightest hint of zombie in its affect. Here, in the order in which the Ouija board instructed us to offer it, is an assortment of stories about ghosts, death, fundamentalists, and general spookiness. _______________ Death Couture: Not for Halloween Only…

Naked Mormon Women Go Viral, Talk Back

By Holly Welker

…t and in how many countries they’ve appeared,” Anderson said. “I’ve had website hits from every continent except Antarctica. Seeing the site stats has been quite the lesson in geography!” Much of the response has been positive. A recent editorial by Salt Lake City art historian Alexandra Karl in the Salt Lake Tribune called Anderson’s work “truly groundbreaking” in the way it “diverges from her [LDS] contemporaries and predecessors, by specificall…

I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…’s dating scene, signed up for CatholicMatch.com during Lent one year. The site asks users whether they accept the church’s teachings on seven issues, from the Eucharist and Immaculate Conception to contraception and premarital sex. She was disappointed to find that many people only accept two or three of the seven teachings. (Catholic Match doesn’t release these statistics.) “Am I shocked that throwing myself in with a group of like-minded people…