Religion Dispatches
…can help people launch their own services. If we can unite them using one website that we’re calling Sunday Assembly Everywhere, then we can scale it and make it really easy to set it up. Instead of us doing our own thing, our effort can be multiplied a million times over. Launching a crowd-funding campaign to raise £500,000 sounds like megachurch pastor money. Jones: We’re trying to build a series of tools so that not tens or hundreds but tho…
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…ministry Burn 24-7, which has a “Spiritual Oversight” board, listed on its website, mostly comprising prominent NAR figures. This is significant, if for no other reason than if, say, an organization is led by someone with a Methodist history, and the listed spiritual advisors are Methodist Bishops, there would be nothing controversial about the idea that it’s a Methodist oriented group. What’s more, to ignore or fail to research the Methodist conn…
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…nd with care, and the company knows exactly what they’re selling. As their website says: Spike’s Tactical created a balanced reliable rifle that would bring an excellent fighting rifle to people of all abilities and resources. The every man fighting rifle. We named it Crusader and engraved Psalm 144:1 on the lower receiver to hoist the flag of our faith and to make a statement, reminding our customers that we are with you. The war is here. We have…
Read More…group of mothers called “Moms Ask Mattel for Accountability” has set up a website for protesting the doll. From the MAMA website: MAMA -is a public education effort by concerned families to protect children from being invited to join Islam, without their parents’ knowledge or permission. Mattel, the largest toy maker in the world, is still selling a toy that says “Islam is the Light” – the Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo Doll, in spite…
Read MoreMy favorite new website is All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay. It’s a simple game: enter the name of a dead Mormon, or the site will choose one for you, and with the click of a mouse, the deceased LDS member is instantly converted to homosexuality. Of course, this makes no sense, and is somewhat offensive. But then, so are the views of some (though not all) Mormons that the dead can be posthumously baptized – or at least given the offer of baptism (whi…
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…or next steps after watching the film won’t be left high and dry; the film website’s FAQ section ends with a few not-so-subtle suggestions. For one, viewers can “offer to help women in [their] church register to vote online.” Another tip? “Remind women that their vote is private and no one can ‘figure out’ who they voted for.” Remember, despite all the pre-election noise about White evangelical women abandoning Trump in 2020, 70% of them still vot…
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…oclamation is reprinted in Gateways’ Religious Freedom Day brochure on its website. If that were not enough, the first thing Gateways suggests that teachers do is to read Trump’s proclamation: The proclamation is on the White House website at www.whitehouse.gov. At the homepage, look for a search icon on the top right corner and enter “Religious Freedom Day.” If this year’s proclamation is not posted in time for you to use it in class, consider us…
Read More…y is scheduled for October 5, 2014, just before the midterm elections. The website for the event, a project of the Christian right legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom, claims “the future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America” and urges pastors to “join a growing movement of bold pastors preaching Biblical Truth about candidates and elections from their pulpit…
Read More…ches.” The ICEC was recently launched by Jackson because, according to its website, “Christianity is not just a bunch of grey-haired repressed white men that hate everything.” Jackson tries to portray himself as outside of the Christian right (the ICEC website charges that the “‘Christian-Right,’ on one hand, has focused on personal, moral, or righteousness issues while dismissing issues regarding biblical justice”). But he is a product of it, sou…
Read More…st of Latter-day Saints have been arguing that Mormon Match, an LDS dating website that tried to launch earlier this month, has no right to use the word in its name.* The Utah-based church insists it has a claim on the terms “Mormon,” “LDS” and “Latter-day Saint” that supplants anyone else’s right to the terms, but people just keep using them how they want: Warren Jeffs is known as an FLDS leader; people who quit going to church still call themsel…
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