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White Supremacy and Orthodox Christianity: A Dangerous Connection Rears Its Head in Charlottesville

By Katherine Kelaidis

…en you are tolerant of some kinds of extreme hatred, it opens the door for other less socially acceptable forms of hatred. It sets the Church up to be a mouthpiece of white supremacy and extreme nationalism. It is obvious why American Orthodox Christians want to minimize the problem as much as possible. It touches too closes to so many self-inflicted wounds. But if something is not done, there is a real danger that American Orthodoxy will be furth…

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

By Anita Little

…aning, 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 w…

The Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin

By Kelsy Burke

Last week, the evangelical-influenced Barna Group released findings from its new study, “The Porn Phenomenon,” based on a survey commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministries. The study, which poses a wide range of questions about pornography use, is unique in its scope, which includes a nationally representative sample of teens, young adults and Christian pastors. Not surprisingly, the findings support the story evangelicals like McDowell have long b…

Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

By Andrew Aghapour

…future of religion. You describe non-believing clergy as “canaries in a coal mine.” Why does this group hold such significance for understanding the future of religion? I think that we are now entering a really disruptive age in the history of human civilization, thanks to the new transparency brought about by social media and the internet. It used to be a lot easier to keep secrets than it is now. In the March issue of Scientific American, Deb R…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…readers with Montgomery’s core belief, illustrating again and again a central value of human agency and responsibility. “It’s finally saying to you, you’re involved,” Montgomery said in one of the few interviews he did on the subject. “What are you doing and why are you making these choices?” Montgomery, who died late last year at his home in Vermont, was largely known for his role in turning the CYOA books into a franchise that eventually extende…

Magic In the Daylight

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…fine model for the classic skeptic-nebbish character that can be found in all Woody Allen’s movies, for years played by Allen himself, and recently by various more-talented stand-ins, in this case Colin Firth, as Stanley Crawford, aka the great conjurer Wei Ling Soo. It is somehow harder to believe this particular nebbish’s gripes about life being “nasty, brutish and short” when he’s lured to the south of France to expose the inevitable fraudulen…

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

By The Editors

…e Packer. Against those who fear that bloggers are usurping the roles of real reporters, and diminishing the vital role that journalism plays in democracy, Carr says that internet journalism is maturing—and that the technology that sites are built on, and that reporters use to do their work, is not the ‘wingman,’ as he puts it, but The Man. While we’d rather see technology as a multi-armed goddess, we’re with Carr otherwise. Packer’s objections a…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…rds less orthodox members of their congregations. I dream tonight of a signal from Salt Lake City, or an even higher place, will empower a different kind of action, a standing down on all sides, a putting away of defensiveness and fearfulness, a putting to rest of Mormonism’s nineteenth-century ghosts and twentieth-century control issues. A signal to the men tasked with the burden of convening an excommunication court this Sunday in Virginia, and…

Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

Within the last day, the Washington Post, Reuters, and religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune have all addressed the growing incidence of disaffiliation among LDS Church members for whom the digital age has brought new access to conflicting perspectives on Mormon history and doctrine—scrutiny that is certain to intensify if Romney gets the GOP nomination. It’s not uncommon for LDS people to grow up in contexts where most…

Missing the Forest for the Witches

By Joseph Laycock

…blocks all of these sites because they are categorized as “occult” and “criminal skills” sites. Netsweeper, a global corporation based in Canada, categorizes websites and allows clients to choose which ones to block. In addition to following state and federal laws to block child pornography, the Salem Library also elected to block all sites that Netsweeper categorized as related to the “occult” and “criminal skills.” Between them, these categories…