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Turn Off, Slow Down, Drop In: The Digital Generation Reinvents the Sabbath

By Elizabeth Drescher

…needs. Connecting to their faith and their communities is enhanced by the use of technology. As in numerous of examples of a thoughtful, temperate use of technology, knee-jerk unplugging can, in fact, disconnect people from important relational and spiritual experiences. Indeed, as I noted in a recent article here on RD, for believers and non-believers alike there is a strong correlation between technological engagement and civic or spiritual en…

The Christian Worldview Revealed by Sessions’ Use of Romans 13

By Susan B. Ridgely

…istration subscribe, and which influences the Ralph Drollinger-led White House Bible study (Capitol Ministries) that Sessions attended one day prior to his announcement. The worldview behind the Romans 13 controversy is the ideology of Reconstructionist Christianity as interpreted by Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian media empire founded by James Dobson. Ralph Drollinger’s wife Danielle worked for Focus in the early 1990s and Dobson…

Pope Francis Dismisses Condoms in AIDS Fight

By Patricia Miller

…gn, Kenyan Archbishop Peter Kairo said, “As the Catholic Church we are not promoting use of condoms. I don’t agree with the advertisements on the billboards and newspapers that say Catholics believe in sex which is sacred and that they believe in using condoms.” “The hierarchy’s ill informed war against condoms goes on,” said O’Brien, who noted that these same bishops “are very often involved in the administration of Catholic charities, who take m…

What do Crystal Meth and Contraception Have In Common?

By Kara Loewentheil

…erity inquiry. It seems ridiculous to us that a religion could require the use of meth, but there is nothing new about the use of intoxicating substances as a means of facilitating communion with the divine. And in a religion like Wicca, without a central authority (like the Pope, for instance), how do we determine that the use of meth is not in fact central to this particular Wiccan’s religious exercise? I’m not suggesting we can’t determine that…

The Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin

By Kelsy Burke

…ans enjoy what God created for them. They believe that married couples can use the sites because they can keep their sexual thoughts within the confines of marriage, imagining only their spouse as they read and contribute to discussions. These evangelicals have faith that if anyone uses the sites as porn then God will hold them accountable. As one online store owner explained to me, “It’s not my job to be the Holy Spirit and convict people.” Evang…

The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan

By Rob Goodman

…est Bible student turn back.” Genealogies are “boring” and “difficult”—because we can’t use them. But they were recorded and preserved with such care because the strangers who wrote that book could use them. For the huge majority of human history, they were the measure of a man’s life. They bound you to your history and your land; they gave you a place among cousins, grandparents, sprawling generations of ancestors, in a rooted institution radical…

Do Tea Partiers Use Religious Justification For Racial Rhetoric?

By Julie Ingersoll

…ry of history”: Almighty God documents a history of meaning making and the use of those meanings to regulate bodies and identities: how Roman Catholics and Protestants looked to their respective traditions to understand marriage and race; how they “knew” their beliefs and their interpretations of texts to be correct; how those beliefs were subsequently encoded into laws that regulated human behaviors; and even how love has been, and continues to b…

The Blasphemy of ISIS: A 7-Point Pro-Guide to Islam(ism)

By Haroon Moghul

…ations of Islam. They might sound like Islam and refer to Islam, but their use of Islam is not dissimilar from the use of scientific fact by the creationist: She intends to undermine the scientific enterprise with scientific language, suggesting how wholly the discursive space has been dominated by a certain kind of language, but also how easy it is to fool the outsider into thinking he is encountering a serious, rigorous, and historically and tex…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…o many gay men affected by the AIDS crisis. I left this discussion out because, again, it took away from the cohesion of the book as a whole. And with all the recent debates about PrEP (a pill that can be used to prevent HIV transmission) and gay marriage, I felt there were more pressing issues to engage—okay, and I figured maybe the plays were best left to theatre historians and performance theorists. What are some of the biggest misconceptions a…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…the clearest and most present danger for LGBT Americans, particularly because it exemplifies the ways in which the bedrock principle of “religious freedom” has been weaponized to block the advance of LGBT equality. When FADA was first introduced by Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador introduced in July 2015, it garnered 172 co-sponsors in the House. All of them were Republicans. The bill stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate, and Labrador even attempted…