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

By Andrew Aghapour

…mind ourselves of the power and importance of citizen speech? I was skeptical until this weekend, when two websites made very different public offerings. One, facing the past, will transcribe your tweets onto clay tablets. The other is the Guggenheim’s first online exhibition—a marketplace for betting on humanity’s future. From Tweets to Tablets Dumb Cuneiform, which launched on November 6th, offers something simple: “You send us your most ephemer…

Conservative Evangelicalism’s Gender Role Rift: Whither Women?

By Jacob Lupfer

…ble variation in beliefs about what the Bible requires, what institutions will allow, and what women themselves should prefer. Acceptance of homosexuality is often an excommunicable offense, but evangelical leaders may have to accommodate more egalitarian gender roles. Women are challenging entrenched notions of patriarchy, but as long as they agree that homosexual expression is a vile sin they can remain comfortably within the conservative evange…

The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

By Kathryn Lofton

…ed open bar. Previously unnoticed Episcopal churches become impetus for familial combat, and Elks Clubs find new nostalgia as the site of the First Dance. Although some may strain to find the right tune that is neither too sappy nor too obscure, this year an obvious option reveals itself. With renewed patriotism, girls (and girls) and boys (and boys) will endure the swelter, survive the photos, and finally stand up to Etta James’ “At Last.” Just l…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…have healthy, frequent, vigorous, even experimental sex lives! There’s a real value placed on pleasure. What role does feminism play in changes occurring in modern-day Judaism? It’s been said that feminism is the single biggest contemporary threat to Judaism, and I think that’s true. I also think, more to the point, that feminism (and, I’d argue, queer- and trans-liberation) has the ability to save Judaism, to help it return to our highest ideals….

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…rn,” Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) (http://www.traditionalvalues.org/) continues its series of anti-Obama bomb throwing. TVC is also a bit miffed that Oprah has refused to interview Sarah Palin on her television program and has collected 4,000 letters critical of Oprah’s decision. Religious Left Book Launch: The book launch for “Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America,” a series of essays…

RD Turns Six: What’s New, What’s Next…

By The Editors

…ds.) Bloggers report, and reporters blog. And as Carr puts it: “great digital journalists consume and produce content at the same time, constantly publishing what they are reading and hearing.” A hearty religiously-unaffiliated Amen to that. While strategies and circumstances evolve, there are core aspects of RD’s mission that remain constant. We aim to be part of a new way of thinking about religion in public; we’re committed to the idea that rel…

What Does It Take to Fell a White Nationalist? (Hint: Pedophilia)

By Anita Little

…ning, but disconnected liberals—remained submerged and unseen, until Election Day when it ripped a gash in the hull of our democracy. I highly doubt Yiannopoulos will slink completely into oblivion. Similar to a bigoted, anti-Semitic phoenix rising from the ashes, white privileged men like Milo always seem to bounce back with another book deal, another commentator gig and more notoriety. White nationalism is one very persistent hydra, and those wh…

Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…e fundamentally different; they need only be suggested or imagined in virtual reality for the consequences to appear in real time. Jewish tradition has it that Rabbi Haninah Ben Teradion was burned at the stake with the Torah scroll underneath him for defying the Roman decree against teaching the Torah. As the scroll was burning, he said, “I see the scrolls burning but the letters fly up in the air.” Most interpreters over the centuries, both reli…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…roader right-wing media, where outlets like Breitbart have gained substantial political influence. Notably, Breitbart does not define itself as conservative, but as populist-nationalist. It’s a competitor to outlets like Fox News and Glenn Beck, not because it’s conservative but because it’s challenging the conservative establishment. This is as much a media story as a politics one. By removing gatekeepers and lowering costs, the internet has enab…

We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree

By Thomas Lecaque

…n legislative threats on America. After all, Project 2025 exists in this realm of reality, the Christofascist nightmare looming over us. Still, it would be a potentially catastrophic mistake for us to ignore the former president’s open embrace of QAnon; not a single casual reference, not a rally song, not a sly wink and a nod, but the open sharing of core eschatological ideas and doctrine. Take the series of images the former President re-Truthed—…