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Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…artment-sponsored program that enlists American college students to combat online extremism. Avi Asher-Schapiro described the scene at a recent P2P event in Washington for VICE News: CJ Drew is a senior at West Point, and like most college students he checks Facebook incessantly—”every couple hours,” he says. But unlike his peers, he’s not counting likes, or scouring for cleavage. CJ is trying to lure would-be-jihadists into conversations about ra…

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…eat reset’ to socialism. Some are antisemitic and racist. Others reference online misogyny such as the word “wamen” used for women (a PewDiePie reference) and Gamergate. He defends Donald Trump and Kanye West, and claims the 2020 election was rigged and that ‘Big Tech’ is censoring people. Sprinkled throughout are posts about the myth of the lost continent of Atlantis and contact with aliens, common beliefs in new age spirituality. Posts from 2007…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…e him.” He first painted a cube, then a watermelon, then an apple. He took online courses from the Museum of Modern Art to study art history. He painted his pets and landscapes at his ranch and self-portraits in his bathtub and shower. He painted world leaders. “Before long I started to see the world differently,” Bush writes. Another teacher suggested Bush paint people he knew who others didn’t, so he decided to paint the wounded warriors he’d me…

10 Media Rules for Effective Theology

By Cynthia B. Astle

…e shelves and get on the Internet, pronto. Those who don’t know how to get online (for shame!) should get a colleague or student to teach them. In fact, why not get students to help produce a “talking about God” multimedia moment? The result may convince a seminary or university to add contemporary communications as a required subject. 2. Talk to us, but don’t talk down to us. Wait, this isn’t an anti-intellectual screed. High-level intellectual d…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…fits in that marriage. China: Targets of sweeping new censorship rules for online media include homosexuality The Chinese government imposed sweeping new censorship rules for online media; Reuters reports that homosexuality is among the topics that are no longer approved, along with “violence, drug addition, extramarital affairs and religious cults.” Under the new guidance, which comes into immediate effect, censors should check that content adher…

Birth of the Bloggernacle

By Krista Kapralos

…ttan” Natalie Hill felt a world away from her Utah family. She started her online diary, (NO) Sex in the City, to share a laugh with her sisters and cousins about her dating disasters. “I was totally not into the blogging world,” Hill said. “I could barely read e-mails.” Then, her sister, A Little Sussy, photographer Nicole Gerulat, linked (NO) Sex in the City with her own popular blog. And, faster than many Mormon coeds get married, Hill’s blog s…

We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree

By Thomas Lecaque

…Anon moved offline. The Alt Right moved offline. Christofascists organized online and circled the Capitol before storming it. The Groypers went from neo-Nazi online fringe to speaking at major conventions. And Trump calling out QAnon at its most basic and violent, summoning it back into his spaces, can once again bring it offline like he did in January of 2020. Hopefully that’s not true. Hopefully it’s just memes. Hopefully the worst rallies of th…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…that I really liked was the discussion with Gloria Beth Amodeo, who is an online friend of mine I hope to meet in real life someday… KGV: She’s lovely. CS: I was impressed with the way that she talked about this whole process in conjunction with what was then Campus Crusade for Christ, now Cru, using these techniques; how the people in Cru began isolating her from her family as they drew her in. Is there anything you’d like to say about that? CK:…

Atheist Schism?

By Katie Toth

…lar social justice group. But it was McCreight’s personal frustration with online harassment that led her to write a blog post demanding a ‘third wave’ of atheism. We throw up billboards claiming we’re Good Without God, but how are we proving that as a movement? Litter clean-ups and blood drives can only say so much when you’re simultaneously threatening your fellow activists with rape and death. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. One comme…

American Evangelist Who Sparked Anti-Gay Panic Sued By Ugandan Gay Rights Group

By Sarah Posner

…ce group Operation Save America, referred to the Interfaith Alliance in an online report as “the synagogue of Satan and heresy.” In the report, Thomas claimed his group was “storming the gates of hell in Idaho,” where they “went to the local death camp” (Planned Parenthood), and described the “sodomites” who protested outside the church where the conference was held. Thomas added that they “challenged the Church, and particularly men, to connect t…