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Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform

By Andrew Aghapour

…wn to man – a clay tablet.” Send them a text or tweet, and they promise to phonetically translate it into Old Persian, stamp it into a clay tablet, and send it to you in the mail. At first glance, this seems like yet another pop-up website to join the ranks of Mail A Spud and Send Your Enemies Glitter— a cute service designed to make easy profit. Yet Dumb Cuneiform seems somehow different. The profit margins can’t be high on hand-stamped cuneiform…

Mormon-Baiting Pastor’s New Fame Should Help Him Sell His New Book

By Joanna Brooks

…ss of Dallas’ First Baptist Church stormed into the Values Voter Summit on October 7 and announced to a scrum of reporters that Mormonism was a “cult” and that voting for Mitt Romney meant giving “credibility to a cult,” was he: A. On a mission from God to defeat an unorthodox strand of Christianity? B. On a mission from Rick Perry to defeat Mitt Romney? or C. On a mission to pump up his own media profile in advance of the publication of his new b…

Four Changes Evangelicals Must Make

By Richard Pierard

…’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which won’t be effective until October 2013. Dr. Frank Page, the President and CEO of the Executive Committee, needs to act summarily and forcefully. He certainly must understand that Land’s (and by implication the Southern Baptist Convention’s) endorsement of Mitt Romney undermined the Southern Baptist witness. He and his office are an embarrassment to the convention, attract unnecessary criticism, and…

Why is the State Department Opening an Office of “Religious Engagement”?

By Austin Dacey

…n religion. The office of religious engagement arose from the efforts of a number of State Department employees including the former policy staffer Judd Birdsall, who in 2009 started an informal discussion forum that was to become known as the Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group. Last October, the working group submitted a white paper (posted by working group member Chris Seiple) proposing a permanent institution housed at State. “In many pl…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…cal Islamic extremism” through global military intervention. Similarly, in October 2012, a scandal erupted when then-LCR president, R. Clarke Cooper, rebuked a local chapter of the group for publishing an advertisement which accused the Obama administration of failing to protect “gay/gay-friendly American citizens” from the relentless “terror of Islamic radicalism.” Two months later, the organization posted a full-page ad in the New York Times tha…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…the more you destroy yourself.” During the Second Intifada, which began in October, 2000, outsiders attempted to revive the Gandhian idea among Palestinians. One notable example, the so-called Gandhi Project. Here is the description from the BBC Web site: Only last week, the Gandhi Project was launched in the West Bank and Gaza. With the backing of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (and with the presence of actor Ben Kingsley) an American foundat…

Compelled by Faith: When Prayer is Not Good For You

By Mandy Van Deven

…Couldn’t Stop Praying (Among Other Things) by Abby Sher (Simon & Schuster, October 20, 2009) How does an eleven-year-old girl cope with the trauma of losing both her favorite aunt and her beloved father in the span of one calendar year? She may pray to God daily to ask Him to protect her loved ones. But what happens when prayer becomes more than just a comfort? What happens when it becomes a compulsion? This question is at the heart of Abby Sher’s…

Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now

By Steve A. Wiggins

…lican genealogy, the United Methodist Church, had thirteen seminaries. The number is now down to ten for Episcopalians, and the clock may be ticking for some of the remaining decad. Possibly even General, the first seminary of the Episcopal Church. In good, corporate style, seminary governance is overseen by a Board of Trustees. These boards, like most governing bodies, do not involve themselves in the day-to-day operations of the school, as long…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…ore actions are expected elsewhere as the workers build their campaign. In October, 28 Wal-Marts saw retail workers walk off the job in protest, in stores from California to Maryland, Texas to Washington. Warehouse workers at Wal-Mart distribution centers outside Chicago and in Los Angeles have also gone out on strike—and won. The full reinstatement and back pay granted to the workers (averaging $900 for each) was unprecedented, leading one of the…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution last October, Bishop William E. Lori, chair of the Ad Hoc Committee, described LGBT equality and access to reproductive care as “serious threats to religious liberty,” that “represent only the most recent instances in a broader trend of erosion of religious liberty in the United States.” The problem, he went on, is like a disease that must be treated immediately, “lest the disea…