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Anti-Transgender Panel at Values Voter Summit Continues Shift Towards Storytelling as Tactic

By Heron Greenesmith

…hildren in with transgender children to study their gender identity over a number of years. Unsurprisingly, the majority of those children do not report a shift in their gender identity, allowing researchers to falsely record those youth among those who “desisted.” Equally problematic are the studies that counted youth who dropped out of their research groups as youth who must no longer experience gender dysphoria. “In other words,” reports Zack F…

Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

By Will E. Young

…well tweeted, “but pastors like [David Platt] need to grow a pair.” In the online backlash, including one that referred to Falwell as a minister, Falwell responded with the following tweets: https://twitter.com/JerryFalwellJr/status/1136056209679822849 Falwell’s crude and aggressive rhetoric is not unique to him. It partly stems from a fundamentalist Christian worldview which is as much of a political movement as it is a religious one. It’s how th…

Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence

By Chrissy Stroop

…t we’ve learned about rampant misogyny and white nationalist recruiting in online gaming spaces. In the same appearance, however, Patrick also lamented that “we won’t even let our kids pray in our schools,” including this supposed lack of school prayer among the “many factors that go into these shootings.” Yes, this assertion that children are not allowed to pray in American public schools is patently untrue, an example of something that we could…

Christian ‘Purity’ Guru’s Loss of Faith May Signal a Coming Reckoning For Conservative Christianity

By Elizabeth Shively

…ty), is one example. Others can be found in the #exvangelical movement, an online collective of former evangelicals united not only by religious “deconstruction,” but by politically progressive positions on issues related to racism, gender, and sexuality. Some exvangelicals, though, have left Christianity or organized religion altogether. How American evangelicalism will deal with this movement and where it, and Harris himself, will ultimately lan…

Bachmann’s “Dangerous” Summit

By Sarah Posner

…, even though the tax returns show that she did. Tax returns are available online for the filing years 2001-2009, and show Bachmann’s service on the board from 2001 through the middle of 2008. Oakes said that the organization is “legally still viable” but is in the process of liquidating its assets. The 2009 tax return shows it donated computer and other equipment to The King’s College. Bachmann served in the Minnesota Senate from 2000 through 200…

Premature “Gay Marriage Defeated” Post Removed from National Review

By Peter Montgomery

…n for Marriage’s Cultural Director Thomas Peters posted to National Review Online a joyous post declaring “Gay Marriage Defeated” and boasting about the coalition that had defeated marriage equality in New York. Strangely enough, no news outlets were reporting the defeat of marriage equality. A few hours after NOM’s claim, CBS news reported that negotiations over the scope of the religious exemption—reportedly the sticking point for a number of Re…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…d claims that all these disparate acts of violence are related. The glossy online magazine, Rumiyah, continued to be published as recently at September, 2017, and in January 2018 a new video posted by ISIS called on assassinations of world leaders from Putin and Erdogan to Trump and the Pope. My student assistants who have been monitoring ISIS-related chats on Twitter and Telegram report that the postings are as frequent and dedicated as ever, vow…

Will Gender and Sexuality Rend The Anglican Communion?

By Becky Garrison

…icks itself up and to use Diana Butler Bass’ term, “re-traditions.” Those seeking to keep up with this debate might want to check out Maggi Dawn’s list of online articles and blog postings, as well as Diana Butler Bass’ ongoing commentary….

Jesus Loses His Freak: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 4

By Mark Dery

…ming, “I, the LORD your God”—always with the screaming CapsLock, like some online whack job—“am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me…” (Exodus 20:5). Happily, Yaweh was safely chained in the basement of the pop-Christian unconscious, the Old Testament, which most Jesus kids I knew seemed to view as a dusty scroll of Sunday-school fables about ancient Israelites, pe…

Capricology: Big Ideas, Lack of Humanity

By Diane Winston

…disillusion of what was working in that relationship. I really enjoyed the online romance between the Zoebot and her geek boy toy, and now we seem to have killed him off and in doing so, we cut down on one of her few remaining ties to the human realm. The other tie of course was through Lacey who has acted as a sounding board for Zoe as she struggles to process her tortured (in this case literally) relationship with her father, and now we seem to…