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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…

The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…raging new social media in the service of the Church, “P2Y,” a Vatican Web site directed to young people inverts the traditional hierarchy, inviting users to post the Pope’s message on their Facebook pages and to send it directly to their priests via Facebook, email, or, for the hopelessly disconnected priest, snail mail. “Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology,…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…American abortions as part of her “Birmingham Letter Project.” The BLP Web site features a dyptic photograph of a hip, white pro-life man wearing red “Life” duct tape over his mouth next to three black civil rights marchers being hosed into the side of a building by segregationist police. (The injection of righteousness the association brings to the anti-abortion movement prompts even less self-conscious posturing, as a group of white anti-abortio…

Tearing Down Evangelical Icons: Why Penn’s Decision to Remove George Whitefield Statue May Be Good for American Evangelicalism

By Peter Y. Choi

…forgotten, but that gazebo in Savannah’s Whitefield Square is an important site not only for evangelicalism but also for Black history in America. A burial site for formerly enslaved persons, it is hallowed ground. Even if a decorative white structure has all but erased that harrowing memory, their story and their blood still cry out for justice. Similarly, the statue of Whitefield in Philadelphia has also served to obfuscate the history of evange…

Remembering What Blood Has Bought

By Jonathan Ebel

…so has it also altered the memorial landscape and transformed this sacred site from utopia to heterotopia. Similar changes have touched the memorial landscapes of all ABMC cemeteries, but Suresnes is the one place where the changes have been acknowledged. For while Wilson and the crowd walked and spoke and, some at least, wept among the dead of only one world war, earlier this month I walked among the dead of two: the Great War and, to borrow fro…

Seek and Ye Shall Find… Anti-Gay Views

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…is designed “to promote what we believe to be biblical truth” and excludes sites that don’t meet that standard. Houdmann says a search on his site would not turn up pornography. If you search “gay marriage,” you would get results that argue against gay marriage. And if you type in “Democratic Party,” your first search result is a site on Marxism. But SeekFind isn’t the only search engine carving a niche market among religious Internet users. There…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…itute unveiled its academic freedom campaign, in 2008, complete with a web site providing sample legislation for interested state lawmakers. The institute’s John West made sure to stress that the bills never mentioned intelligent design. But as DI’s past actions clearly indicate, the goal was still to pry open the door for sympathetic teachers to teach intelligent design and creationism. Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan and Missouri all introduced sim…

By His Wounds We Have Already Been Entertained: Tiger Woods, The Masters, and the Ritual of Celebrity Disgrace

By Dan Mathewson and Trina Jones

…e the words I (Dan) spoke to myself when I clicked on the Toronto Star web site this past Thursday only to find the headline, “Augusta chairman comes out swinging at Tiger Woods.” I showed the article to my colleague, Trina Jones, and a long, impassioned, and difficult discussion ensued. The following article is the product, written in three parts, of our discussion. While Dan’s voice predominates in the first section, and Trina’s in the second, t…

Reason for Cautious Optimism in the Mauna Kea Telescope Standoff

By Jean Rosenfeld

…ii. The mountain’s protectors (kia’i) blocked the road to the construction site of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Their legal suits against the project had finally ended and the court had allowed construction to proceed. The governor, David Ige, met the protectors with a police presence called from several of the islands, while the kia’i adhered to their praxis of kapu aloha, or peaceful resistance. Hawaiians who favored the TMT project staged…

Ghosts of Halloween Past

By The Editors

…ess you count the gremlins who got into our software stash and brought the site down over the weekend. Our server company* let us 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…