Religion Dispatches
…what values define us as a nation and a people. On the Foreign Policy Web site, he writes: This framing of the issue is almost 100% wrong. There is a connection between what these critics are calling “political correctness” and national security, but it runs in the opposite direction. The real linkage is that there is a strong security imperative to prevent the consolidation of a narrative in which America is engaged in a clash of civilizations w…
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…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…
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…oosting her husband’s Art of Manliness-Man of the Year campaign on her Web site Ladies against Feminism and on various homeschooling blogs. Doing Demographic Battle with Nonbelievers When Doug Phillips blogged Chancey’s award campaign in the final 48 hours—he noted the large families of various other campaigners. Matt and Jennifer Chancey themselves have eight children. So far. According to Joyce, this fact is at the heart of the story: [The] Phil…
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…p” text for support. Image: Covenant Eyes website. On the Covenant Eyes website, porn “addiction” is couched as a masculine sin to produce heteropatriarchal gender relations as the norm. A dropdown menu under the “Why Am I Here?” tab reads, first, “To overcome porn, as a Man,” and then “To overcome porn, as a Woman.” Clicking on the different links for “man” and “woman” leads to distinct experiences. The men’s site is far more interactive and enga…
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…e press release (but somehow not available anywhere online, as her own Web site is still “under construction”), includes being the founder of Wisdom Worldwide Center (which has no Web site, online presence, or apparent physical location), Chaplain to the New York Police Department, and a member of the Domestic Policy Council in the Clinton Administration. Impressive, perhaps, for the Christian speakers’ circuit, but not for diplomacy. So why would…
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…days by a majority of bishops and diocesan standing committees in the Episcopal Church before he can officially assume his new role. Defenders of orthodoxy—both Episcopal and at large—have leaped through that window of opportunity hoping to thwart what they see as yet another effort by progressives to weaken the foundations of Christian faith. “The bottom line is that Forrester has embraced something foreign and contradictory,” wrote Greg Griffit…
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…y has tempered their language about LGBT persons on the Day of Dialogue website, it only takes three clicks of the mouse to navigate directly from the Day of Dialogue site to the ADF “Marriage and the Family” page quoted above. This certainly doesn’t seem to be language conducive to genuine dialogue and does little to increase the credibility of the organizer’s newly visible anti-bullying stance. But it begs another question: What exactly are we t…
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…’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…
Read MoreWhen he visited mormonsandgays.org shortly after its official launch yesterday morning, Jayce Cox cried. There at the new LDS Church-owned website, Cox, a gay Mormon man with six generations of family history in the LDS faith, saw video messages from top-ranking Church leaders and rank-and-file gay Mormons calling explicitly for greater understanding, openness, and dialogue around LGBT issues and an end to the rejection of gay family members, con…
Read MoreToday’s most often e-mailed article on the WaPo site is Harold Meyerson’s column, “Hard-Liners for Jesus.” Meyerson, one of the best mainstream pundits out there, charges that there is a huge gap between the teachings of the gospels and the preachings of the “Gospel’s Own Party.” The GOPers tout the old-time religion while violating its biblical precepts, or—to be more exact—the particular biblical precepts that Meyerson approves. He has an easy…
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