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This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…hose kinds of technological questions—I don’t think he survived to see the online boom—but he might have some real questions about the kind of gizmos that I’m carrying around with me. [pointing to digital recorder, cell phone, iTouch] Walter: That’s right. I think he’s the primary voice who anticipated all of this. It seems to me he is vindicated over and over and over again, that technology is not neutral, but that it brings an ideology with it….

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…new, more vocally right-leaning competition as of 2011 in the Jewish News Service. One might expect a certain flavor of conservatism from The Forward, a 118-year-old legacy newspaper, that was originally (and still is) published in Yiddish, a language that few people speak. It would be easy to lump the Forward into the shrinking-but-still-present national network of Jewish print newspapers, some affiliated with local Jewish Federation organizatio…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al circuit now. A trailer, in Spanish with English subtitles, is available online; it shows religious protesters opposing the marriage as well as pro-marriage-equality protesters carrying a banner that says, “Before God we are all his children and only He will judge us.” At the Religion News Service, Stephen Woodman writes about a folk saint, Santa Muerte, who has become popular among transgender women in Mexico: Violence against transgender women…

What Do You Think?: “Padre Oprah” Scandal Has Many Asking Whether Priests Should Be Allowed to Marry

By Frances Kissling

…h that, between my love for God and my love for the Church and my love for service.” Cutie is obviously a very loving man and now he will need to choose, some say needlessly, between those loves. The life of a Roman Catholic priest is no picnic. When I was growing up there were a fair share of what we called Father “What-a-wastes”… outgoing, kind, good looking, mostly young men who made you wonder what they were doing in the priesthood. They’d mak…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…Amanda Hess added that when one also takes into account tech hires, “these online platforms represent the merging of journalism (which is a traditionally white and male-dominated field) with technology (which is even more so!). If anything, their marriage should only produce more powerful white men.” BuzzFeed’s Deputy Editor-in-Chief Shani O. Hilton, who has worked at making BuzzFeed’s newsroom more diverse, noted that how this takes far more eff…

How Religion Shapes Sex Discrimination at Wal-Mart

By Joanna Brooks

…recognition for the work of service performed by these women both a home and at Wal-Mart—is a perennially important concern for everyone who works. Many of the Dukes women who embraced the company’s Christian identity would also say that there is no contradiction between honoring service and paying and promoting service employees fairly. I assume that’s what many Christian Wal-Mart employees hope to achieve in this suit, alongside their non-evang…

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. As the 112th Congress convened on Thursday, January 6, 2011, the first order of business was a religious ritual designed to underscore the import of a historic transition of power: a reading of the US Constitution. Or rather, a reading of it without some of its icki…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…(then the stake president) felt my moving away from Belmont would be a disservice to my sons because in the Belmont ward, they had role models for being good Mormon men. My gut told me differently: that if I kept them around Belmont, they would leave the Church because this group made them feel unusual. There were times when I would ask the congregation’s Boy Scout troop leader how my boys were doing, and he would say “pretty good, considering.”…

Judge Denies Church Graduation Ceremonies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rst Baptist Church in my hometown—the church where I was a member. At that service I learned an important lesson: my church was not as open as I thought it was, nor was my own mind. My high school was actually majority black—but my church was 100 percent white. As we prepared for the service that night, I did a double take when a black woman, the mother of one of my friends, walked into our sanctuary. I realized, in that moment, that I had never s…

Bryan Fischer’s and the GOP’s Special Christian First Amendment

By Sarah Posner

…; called for the deportation of Muslims and for banning them from military service; claimed that gay sex is ‘domestic terrorism’; called gay adoption a ‘terrible, terrible, inexcusable, inhumane thing to do to children’; and claimed that Hitler and his stormtroopers were all gay.” All of this, and more, has been on display for public consumption for some time. That didn’t stop the Values Voters Summit from bestowing a prestigious award on Fischer’…