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Wiesel to Romney: Stop LDS Baptisms of Holocaust Victims

By Joanna Brooks

…submit names for proxy religious rites were required to complete an annual online training with explicit instructions and penalties for inappropriate submission of names? What if LDS Church members who use the Family Search database were required to provide an electronic signature each time they submitted names for proxy religious rites acknowledging that they agreed to forfeit access to the database if they were found in violation of the policy?…

Bishops Have No Religious Freedom Claim

By Sarah Posner

…id Shuster) to discuss the birth control coverage issue. There is no video online, but the transcript is. The key point: SHUSTER: When it comes down to it, though, how close does this mandate, in fact, violate — or get to violating — the First Amendment, as Speaker Boehner and Republicans are claiming? POSNER: It does not violate the First Amendment. The bishops are misrepresenting a legal issue in order to create a political issue. There are 28 s…

How Anne Frank Turned Up At Occupy

By Peter Manseau

…gnum’s performance in October, a series of book trailers began circulating online for Shalom Auslander’s first novel, Hope: A Tragedy. In each of three short films, Auslander asks well-known bookish friends—including Ira Glass, John Hodgeman, and Sara Vowell—a pointed question: Should another Holocaust occur, would they hide the novelist and his family? Auslander has said in recent interviews that the idea for these videos developed during a conve…

Death of an Occult Crime Expert Reawakens Controversy

By Joseph Laycock

…he few people qualified to combat it. Rimer’s passing has led to an lively online conversation among Pagan and vampire groups. Many of these groups regarded Rimer as a political enemy and some individuals expressed relief that Rimer will not be holding any more seminars. However, important leaders of these communities have called for respect. One community member invoked Proverbs 24:17, “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls.” It is even rumored th…

The Pope, The Chef & Krampus: Merry Yikesmas!

By Peter Manseau

…part to the unlikely apostle Anthony Bourdain, one local skeleton in Christianity’s closet is stepping into the light. Though his Krampus Carol ended up on the cutting room floor, it’s on the verge of going viral online. My prediction: Krampus will soon take America by storm. Uh-oh. I think that’s him knocking now. As they say in Tittmoning: Fröhliche Weihnachten and may two stout sisters always guard your door….

Occupy Catholics to Cardinal Dolan: We Aren’t Protesting, We’re Advertising Love

By Nathan Schneider

…at’s brought Occupy Catholics together as a group around the country, both online and in person, is the shared sense that the Occupy movement’s message speaks to the heart of our faith. Though the group includes clergy, it’s decidedly lay-driven and committed to non-hierarchical organizing. A number of Occupy Catholics are among the so-called “lapsed”: people who haven’t felt comfortable being part of a Catholic anything for years until this came…

Opponent of LGBT Equality Lauded for His Great Courage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ritics have called him a bigot, a homophobe, and a spiritual terrorist. An online petition to ban an Exodus application from Apple’s iTunes store earlier this year drew more than 150,000 signatures. Apple dropped the Exodus app, saying it offended large groups of people. Oh, my—those vicious lions! Trying keep homophobia off their iPhones! Here’s a thought: Perhaps the lions wouldn’t be so testy if they didn’t have to justify their very existence….

Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…cial media socially. Religionistas who can curate content that facilitates online and offline connection will earn more stars in the digital book of everyday life than those who continue to focus on broadcasting their latest deep thought or (oh, sweet mother of mercy, please make it stop!) their latest sermon. 5. A Few New Commandments In 2009, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut was among the first to offer social media guidelines. Like the few…

Occupy in Exile: Sacred Space is Everywhere

By Donna Schaper

…f you want to find the Occupy Movement now, just go here: exile, diaspora, online, viral, on radio, at Thanksgiving tables, over coffee, in Los Angeles and Poughkeepsie and Riverside and more. Everybody wants to know where it is—and it is everywhere. On Monday night, November 14, 2011, the mayor of New York City ordered the police to evict the 500 or so overnight occupiers in Zuccotti Park. As part of the eviction, tents and computers, books and p…

Even Richard Dawkins is Right Sometimes

By Paul Wallace

For the last several months there has been a flurry of discussion—mostly online, of course—about the impossibility of a literal Adam & Eve (see, e.g., here and here and here). This ruling-out has been accomplished recently by the Human Genome Project, which indicates that anatomically modern humans emerged from primate ancestors about 100,000 years ago, from a population of something like 10,000. In short, science has confirmed what many of us al…