Religion Dispatches
…They lacked awareness and any type of compassion or empathy.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CBA1P3gHpT_/?igshid=1qstwzxn87p2n I’m a pastor in the city that Drew Brees calls home and it’s from this perspective that I say Drew Brees’ comments were right. His comments were right not only because he spoke from his heart but because his comments, especially given the fact that they were made in the midst of everything that’s going on in our country, rev…
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…es perhaps we should start with those suffering from erectile dysfunction: https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/890247497700057090 (For the record, I believe all members of the military deserve full, unfettered access to whatever kind of health care they and their doctor determine they need.) And, of course, there are several other places where some fat could be trimmed from the budget, as Twitter helpfully explained: https://twitter.com/AnneFran…
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…witterdom leapt at the chance to dunk on the theological heterodoxy of the comment: https://twitter.com/ndrewwhitehead/status/1537028907152588804?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1536865780368801793?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/1537133642706714631?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1537118021113765891?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g Sometim…
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…systematic murder of some six million Jews by the mostly Christian Nazis. https://twitter.com/cherriesandgin/status/1480225544683859973?s=20 If centuries upon centuries of Christian violence perpetrated against Jews and the resulting generational trauma don’t constitute a serious enough reason to object to proselytizing for Kristian and her fellow travelers, perhaps they’re beyond hope. It’s important to consider power dynamics here, and how conv…
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…cal Twitter. https://twitter.com/RobGeorge/status/1297948042218426371?s=20 https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1298042172432949253?s=20 On Sunday night Falwell apparently attempted to get ahead of Reuters’ explosive scoop dropped Monday morning by blaming everything on his wife Becki, claiming she’d had an affair with business partner Giancarlo Granda (now forever known as the Falwells’ Pool Boy), “in which I was not involved.” Granda, however…
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…ed those critical of the VP’s public response to the Coronavirus outbreak: https://twitter.com/JonathanMerritt/status/1234309386467708929?s=20 Graham and George are clear proponents of a “Christian nation,” but Merritt should know better. Did he pause to consider the broader context, one wonders, before tweeting that “mocking [Pence] for praying—like 79% of Americans have done in the past 3 months—is why so many regular Americans despise wine-and-…
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…e it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1232503545120935936 It is not at all a bad thing if, alongside the full recognition of the dignity and equality of non-believers, the Democratic Party embraces leaders who find personal meaning in passages of the Bible associated with social justice Christianity, in sharp contrast to the Christian Right’s ugly and vicious politics toward m…
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…n singled out to show how closely entwined the two seem to be: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT9wDcUBShs/ In response, Sarsour and Mallory have repudiated Farrakhan’s antisemitic statements, and Sarsour, in particular, has written an apology to the Jewish community. But since they haven’t repudiated Farrakhan as a figure, accusations of antisemitism remain. The reaction is an example of what Engel notes about antisemitism. Sarsour, for instance, rai…
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…ted States did to yoga, which was make it expensive and bland. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVcvL8kg0nM/?taken-by=trapyogabae “I would be lying if I said we’re honoring the Bhagavad Gita because we’re not. Appropriation is real, and I question my own motives as well because I know that’s not what I learned in India. And I wonder what my guru thinks when he finds me online since that’s not what he taught me. We used to fight about these things.” Dr….
Read More…ir faith. That question of openness—the matter and manner in which the LDS community sorts through its own history and practices—is a source of tension among Mormons today. It’s complicated by so many factors—among them the youth of the Church, Mormon feelings of vulnerability to persecution from and misunderstanding by outsiders, the historical value assigned to secrecy when Mormon lifeways were under threat and from the US government in the nine…
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