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The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…uraged priests, very particularly, to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audio-visual resources (images, videos, animated features, blogs, Web sites) which, alongside traditional means, can open up broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelization, and catechesis. Many commentators saw Benedict’s statement as a bold move by the Roman Catholic Church into a new era of open, interactive communication with the faithful. But the Pop…

A Pagan Republican Comes Out of the Broom Closet

By Sarah M. Pike

…licly and vocally for religious freedom. Conservative politics is just the latest foray in their ongoing campaign to be taken seriously as full participants in American religious, cultural, and political life. “I believe in God,” said Halloran in an October 1 story in the Queens Chronicle: “Faith is a cornerstone of my life.” Responding to his critics, he described his Catholic upbringing and avoided discussing his Pagan identity, calling for his…

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…about “economic freedom”—using “States’ Rights” rhetoric—she was only the latest in a long line of Republican politicians, from Goldwater to Nixon to Ronald Reagan himself—to use pseudo-libertarian, ahistorical rhetoric to pander to voters animated by racial grievances. The Republican Party’s path is historian Heather Cox Richardson’s argument in How the South Won the Civil War, that while the South technically lost the Civil War they’ve actually…

‘Always Pray to the Father’: Mormon Leader Calls Desire for Knowledge of Heavenly Mother ‘Arrogant and Unproductive’

By Holly Welker

…incompatible with any sort of queerness. (See for example Dallin H. Oaks’s latest General Conference talk.) Renlund’s talk is evidence that the Church is similarly working to be incompatible with feminism. A silent, invisible wife is not equal to her husband, and the Church repeatedly tells Latter-day Saints that women (who cannot hold the priesthood) are not inferior to men (who can hold the priesthood), and that husbands and wives should be “equ…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…that when I recently grasped hands with a modern-day Apostle (as Valdemiro Santiago, miracle curer and head of Brazil’s World Church of God’s Power, proclaims himself), I momentarily implored God for a miracle for my mother, who six months ago survived the latest in a harrowing series of medical ordeals. With that little bit of prayerful business out of the way, I turned from the ecstatic mob of Santiago-rushing crentes and walked down the darken…

Muslims Murder, Christians Don’t: What Went Missing in Analysis of Tiller’s Executioner

By Dan Mathewson

…abortion activism (which the prior article actually does include). In this latest article, however, we learn a new detail about Roeder that might account for his crime—namely a recent, newly developed pattern of erratic behavior. The Friday before he killed Dr. Tiller, Roeder invited his 22-year-old son to go to dinner and a movie; which was odd for him, claims his ex-wife, because Roeder normally celebrated the Sabbath beginning at dusk every Fri…

Plant Porn and Physics Prayers

By Meera Subramanian

…alist, performance artist, and mad scientist would all fit as well. In his latest work lies an invitation for not just cloistered specialists, but anyone and everyone, to participate. It used to be the exclusive domain of men of leisure to pursue God or science or art because they alone had the necessary combination of time and education, Keats argues, but now most people in the modern world have a modicum of both. Yet Keats, 39 years old, feels t…

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

By Sarah Posner

…ect, both of which appeared during the 2012 presidential campaign. In this latest essay she takes stock of evangelical voting trends in the election—79% of white evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney—and seeks to persuade us, in spite of this rather homogeneous voting pattern, that they are not as monolithic as we might think. It’s true, of course, that the measure of a person’s religious and political beliefs is more complex than how she pulled the…

Fulfilling the Dream? Complicating the Narrative

By Jonathan L. Walton

…orms of racial discrimination. As philosopher Eddie Glaude suggests in his latest book In A Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and Politics of Black America, we must move beyond traditional vocabularies of struggle in order to assess and offset contemporary and complicated modes of racial injustice. In a post-Obama era, we cannot allow the protest language of those who lived in a segregated society to conceptually flatten or intellectually seize the creati…

The Death of Another Deathbed Conversion

By Austin Dacey

…oth nor rust doth corrupt. Hume Exhumed It is not just the details of this latest (preemptive) deathbed conversion story that are dubious, but the assumptions on which the entire genre operates. I have never understood how it counts as an endorsement of a belief that someone would embrace it just as he is falling apart, that the real or made-up judgments of a Darwin or Flew carry more weight to the extent that their minds are addled by disease, fa…