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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…

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?…

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….

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….

Emad Effat, Shaykh of Egyptian Revolution, Shot Dead During Protest

By H. al-Zoubeir

…ad was a deeply religious Muslim figure, and yet the outpouring of emotion online as well as the funeral and the funeral procession was not limited to the religious Muslim sector of society. As an Azhari, he was a product of the mainstream center of Islamic thought, which meant that among the mourners were a number of students to whom he exemplified a deeply religious scholar whose teachings were not limited to the mosque. But there were also libe…

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…

How Anne Frank Turned Up At Occupy

By Peter Manseau

…staccato prose style best lends itself to recitation via the people’s microphone, they might puzzle over a video clip date-stamped October 6, when Jeff Mangum, the man behind the beloved indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, treated the occupiers in Zuccotti Park to an eight song solo set. Dressed in a shaggy Nordic sweater and dark Mao-ish cap, Mangum looked the very model of the modern hipster protest singer. But his lyrics—echoed by the crowd of…

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…

Christian Publishing v. the Vagina

By Katie Toth

…Lifeway also includes a publishing group, two conference centers, and two online shopping websites. Eric Metaxas is the author of the bestselling biography Bonhoeffer: Pastor Martyr, Prophet, Spy, published by Thomas Nelson. He told me that he thinks the retailer’s decision was “a misunderstanding of God’s idea of holiness.” Metaxas says that when Hollywood makes a film that portrays evangelical Christians in a positive light, Christians should e…

It’s Not About Facts or Fear: What Many Liberals Get Wrong About Religious Conservatives

By John Stoehr

…s inhabit. “I basically built the infrastructure for a lot of conservative online people and personally taught a lot of them what they know,” claims Sheffield who’s now something of an apostate. He appears to be reckoning with what he hath wrought. In an interview I encourage you to read in full, he gives a Reader’s Digest version of about 1,000 editions of my Editorial Board newsletter. It’s an impressive feat of brevity. “Almost all right-wing s…