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Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…instinctively questioned authority. “Billy was perfect in that moment because he’s a fake leader,” Durkee says. “Because he’s not a real leader, we can go for it. We can trust the situation somehow.” Durkee too became a leader in the community and sometimes even finds herself expected to play the role of the old-fashioned preacher’s wife. “It’s an incredibly demoralizing and demeaning position,” she says. “I try to reject it as much as I can and…

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…ings as the popsicle-stick rendition of Our Savior’s sorrow and the proper use of construction paste in Jesus’ name. I’d attempted to liven up my cross with the tempera paints from the craft-materials shelf. Whereupon I was informed by Mrs Roach that we were not allowed to do this. Me, timidly: ‘Why not?’ Mrs Roach: ‘Because only Catholics worship gaudy crosses.’ Bible School is sort of the gateway drug to getting saved, which ultimately everyone…

Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…rkey, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, the Russian province of north Ossetia, Indonesia, South Africa, Morocco, Japan, Israel, Jordan, Italy, and Spain. They took us into their virtual communities, houses, and mosques, invited us to fatwas, took us on a virtual Hajj to Mecca, and discussed their perceptions of extremism, integration, creative collaboration, and cultural values. Is the pool of participant…

Pence’s Prayer Breakfast Appearance Underscores Fractured American Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…paid lip-service for the need for Catholics to pray, not so much “for a cause as for country,” it was clear that his job was to seek reciprocity for that support by rallying conservative Catholics to the rapidly eroding bastions of the besieged Fort Trump. Pence’s appearance was, in many ways, a coda to the effort that began in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election to fuse conservative Catholics and evangelicals into a reliable right-wing…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…dence are not uniformly distributed. In the context of digital monopolies, users become locked into a limited range of commercial providers who, in turn, generate profit by extracting user data—the lifeblood of the digital economy—and packaging it for sale to marketers, government agencies, and banks. Such techniques entrench social stereotypes and exacerbate class inequality even as profits boom. To be clear: my critique here is directed not at F…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…well live up to those lofty claims and we can only hope that it does, because Satyamev Jayate did something radical: it presented queer identity as something normal. Because news flash: normal is exactly what it is to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or straight. As psychiatrist Anjali Chhabria put it to Khan, “If I asked you today to not look at women, but consider men sexually, would you be able to do it?” Khan said he wouldn’t. “Then w…

A Catholic Bishop on sex ed, where Jewish singles mingle, and Queen Antoinette’s cult?: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…arguing against a court decision that controversially allows Christians to use the word “Allah,” citing national security concerns. The New York City Museum of Jewish Heritage, with its many exhibits dedicated to the Holocaust, could be the new hotspot for Orthodox Jewish singles to meet, according to Jewcy.com. Honoring the separation of church and state, Republican legislators in Florida are sponsoring a measure that would repeal a ban on…

White Christian Nostalgia Strikes Back

By Daniel Schultz

…themselves, no matter what the bellicose rhetoric coming from the White House might say. The nation simply cannot deport its way back to greatness. Even whitest Wisconsin and Iowa will eventually have to get used to the idea that the pinkish aren’t going to be able to run the show by themselves for much longer. The Christian church—where after all, many of these people find a home—can take the lead in educating its members to mourn the past they…

Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims

By Joseph M. Palacios

…justice teaching. Through a more comprehensive inductive logic, Catholics use reason to see and analyze empirical injustice and then apply biblical principles and social justice teaching to the social context of injustice—a bottom-up approach to justice in the world. Not surprisingly, the international scope of the clergy abuse scandal has diminished the teaching authority of the hierarchy on sexuality. Catholics recognize that they do have gay,…

Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?

By Salman Hameed

…there were competing claims from Soviet laboratories also). Similarly, because Arab astronomy was dominant in the late medieval period, and Arabic atlases played a key role in the development of modern astronomy, more than half of the brightest stars in the sky have Arabic names. But for some Muslims today, that’s not enough. Even if we concede the colonial legacy of GMT, what would justify Mecca to be the replacement reference point for the entir…