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Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…s had made it a target of white terrorists. The evening before the morning service on September 15, a group of Klansmen placed over one hundred sticks of dynamite outside the church building. At about 10:20 a.m., the explosives detonated. The impact of the blast destroyed the rear wall and steps of the structure, and blew out all but one of the stained glass windows. The sole surviving window frame featured a stained glass rendering of Jesus leadi…

Satanic Harmonies and Zoom Church: Readers Respond

By Daniel Schultz

…Assissi preached in the wilderness, or John Wesley and his followers held services in the coalfields. So why exactly would it be different in a Zoom service? That’s not a rhetorical question. A preference for in-person worship is understandable and not even necessarily wrong. A case can be made for it. My point is simply that Warren hasn’t made that case, either in terms of sociology or theology. Meanwhile, the argument she has made overlooks the…

Your Hatred Will Make Me Famous

By Joseph Laycock

…from an abusive home and even sent a letter to Minnesota Child Protective Services describing Paige’s alleged abuse. Eventually, Paige was taken from Sharkey and into police custody. However, in March when Sharkey appeared in Tampa, Florida, to announce his bid for president as a Republican, he was accompanied by yet another of his online teenage vampire “brides.” Local news filmed him biting the neck of 19-year-old Audriana Foster, bragging, “I…

Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy?

By Becky Garrison

…e in Bellevue, WA but also throughout their global church plants and their online podcast network. Now that the online buzz surrounding these revelations seems to have cooled off, the evidence doesn’t support the allegation that this was just a witch hunt conducted by those seeking to discredit a controversial “cussing pastor.” Rather, evangelical Christian radio host Janet Mefferd’s research unearthed examples where Driscoll used material from Pe…

Quitting Religion, But Not the Practice of Prayer

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ith traditional religion that continues to have meaning their lives. In an online survey I conducted in the spring of 2012* on activities that Nones consider spiritually significant, prayer stood out as the lone traditional religious activity among a range of practices that many of the religiously unaffiliated engage in at least a monthly basis. So, what are Nones up to when they pray? As the survey data suggests, the activities that Nones conside…

Manchester—Last Gasp of a Failing Terror Movement?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…The motivations for Abedi are not yet clear. However, in my monitoring of online Twitter chats among young ISIS supporters, I have found a consistent theme, a longing for community. This idea of being part of a family is not just a feature of ordinary tweets, it is prominent in the memorial sites set up online and included as tweet attachments. These commemorative sites that appear on web-based magazines such as the former Dabiq, now renamed Rumi…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…woefully absent from most of the Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and other online locales established by religious institutions, including the way-more-numerically-popular John Paul II Facebook page. And, it notices that believers draw on their faith to negotiate a wide, and often weird, range of contemporary spiritual and ethical issues. Bolz-Weber’s social media ministry reveals the secret that most churches have not yet faced: institutions don’…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ess, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness’.” According to Mambaonline, Olivier is himself gay. “It boils down to one thing – homophobia toward the gay community. That’s why they dismissed me at the end of the day. The church is not right. They should stop being homophobic and reach and out embrace people with love. At this stage it’s quite the opposite,” Olivier told Mambaonline. Colombia: Human Rights Leader Killed LGBT human rights a…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…been transfixed, appalled, heartbroken. Immediately, stories proliferated online about what was going on, interpretations of the root and proximate causes, alternate explanations proffered to excuse or condemn the insurrectionists. One figure stood out: furry hat, shirtless, extensive ink, carrying a spear with the American flag tied below the tip, red-white-and-blue painted on his face. And he is known as the Q Shaman. How could we not notice hi…

Battlestar Galactica and the Future of American Religion

By Nick Street

…netic influence on viewers, pulling them together over water-coolers or in online chat-rooms and sparking conversations about ontology or morality among people who might otherwise feel no urge to connect. And anyone who doubts that morals and the meaning of life are the stock in trade on Battlestar might consider the lineaments of “A Measure of Salvation,” an episode that aired in November 2006. The story: A beacon left behind 3,000 years ago by h…