Religion Dispatches
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…ngelical Rewriting of Haitian History” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 41.2 (2012). Available at: http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_mcalister/37…
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…nough to withstand the strains of pregnancy and childbirth: https://twitter.com/hilaryagro/status/1549037362617155586?s=20&t=X34BDjZgcl0JfUEilB62-g To be clear, it is indeed morally contemptible to force a ten-year-old child to give birth, in the process subjecting her to many horrific consequences including psychological damage. It’s also very possibly a death sentence. The Washington Post reports that in Brazil, where abortion is criminalized, c…
Read More…ters such as Bachmann, is panned pretty much universally by the scientific community. Meanwhile, Bachmann goes around saying, as she did in 2006, that she knows of Nobel Prize-winning scientists who believe in intelligent design. On Friday, Kopplin testified before the Louisiana Senate, urging them to support SB 70, which would have repealed LSEA. But the bill died in committee and LSEA still stands. Here he is testifying here. In his testimony, h…
Read More…rs (ICANN), the body responsible for generic top level domains (gTLD) like .com, .org., and .net, asked for proposals for new gTLD, I watched with some fascination. One of the earliest discussions was around allowing “.xxx” to indicate pornography-related sites. However, I am interested in a new round of names that may potentially define who is in and who is out of religious communities. In particular, I am looking at the applications for “.islam”…
Read More…ampaign’s overall tone-deafness when it comes to Catholics: https://twitter.com/katrinapierson/status/148442868065894400 Of course, a strong Trump showing in the first two-thirds of the primary calendar would largely make the Catholic-leaning later states a moot point. But if Ted Cruz manages to peel off enough of the evangelical vote from Trump to keep himself, and Rubio, in the race through April, the Northeast and Midwest will have the final sa…
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…ivine has simply broadened beyond traditional churches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEu2MH3J0qg A great many Nones are the spiritual progeny of the cheerful, well-dressed parade of Eisenhower-era churchgoers: fathers in their Mad Men suits, mothers in their pert hats and white gloves. They are Dick, Jane and Sally from the elementary-school readers, now with children and grandchildren of their own. (“See Dick. See Dick run. See Dick run away f…
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…online store benefiting women’s empowerment in West Bengal. https://twitter.com/SoniyaaaTweets/status/690937895759130625 Kyra splits her time between the U.S. and her parents’ home in Ambala, India. When she’s in the West, she’s used to trading in her salwar khameez and bindi for jeans and a beanie to blend in. But now she’s shocked to see the bindi as street fashion. “It’s offensive,” she says bluntly. “They’re not Hindu, they’re not even South A…
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…w Seidel laid this out succinctly on social media recently: https://twitter.com/AndrewLSeidel/status/1656089298226085890 ‘I Like Ike’ cigarettes. So innocent. All of this (except for the National Day of Prayer) was done during the Eisenhower administration. By using Ike as his “innocent” historical example of a real live White Christian nationalist Woodward thinks he’s exonerating himself and others like him. But his claim only reinforces the worr…
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…to take a simple action to prevent getting seriously ill.” https://twitter.com/Sisyphus1989/status/1427101272793128961 The Cardinal’s Twitter feed has given very few updates and the Executive Director of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe exhorted His Eminence’s followers to pray the rosary on his behalf, and “out of humility” not to demand too much information about the state of the Cardinal’s health. These updates have since been removed from…
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