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Why Was Suspicion Over “The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven” Ignored for Years?

By Rachel Wagner

…hise, spawning follow-up popular theology books, children’s books, an iPad app with puzzles, coloring sheets, and digital postcards, a Facebook page that regularly generates new memes for the book—and even a movie released in 2014. The successful marketing of such books reveals our craving for reassurances about what lies beyond death, but it can also raise problems for scripturally strict readers of the Bible like Alex’s mother, Beth Malarkey. Be…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…solidarity with his antigay Christian peers without endorsing the latter’s appeal to “the African way of life.” Appeals to cultural, as opposed to religious, traditions about sex are especially problematic for Muslim northerners, who are widely rumored among other Nigerians to have a predilection for homosexuality. Notwithstanding their internal contradictions, the convergence of Nigerian Muslim and Christian discourses with respect to homosexuali…

Talking to Noah Screenwriter On Being an Eco-Wacko

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…than “the interpretation”. The text is a living thing. It’s a culture of grappling with the text, it’s dynamic. Darren and I come from this world, so that’s how we approached it. But it’s also more freeing as an artist. One thing that you definitely got out of the text was this “environmentalism” angle, which I’d heard about before seeing the movie, but was surprised how present it was in the film. [Noah and his family don’t eat animals, see thems…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ibition on cell phones, because Makana’s guitar is tuned with a smartphone app. Or, reporters are interested in how Obama, his guests, and security detail responded—or didn’t, as it turned out. But this misses the heart of the story, as Makana’s set at the APEC dinner was less dissenting performance than performative utterance—the songs he played, the protest t-shirt hidden beneath the complaint dinner musician’s suit, and the secretive cell phone…

Seven-in-Heaven Way, Hybrid Pope, & “Chrislam”

By Michael J. Altman

…gy, though, as they are lending out iPods to pilgrims at basilicas with an app that highlights the location’s history and architecture. End-times broadcaster Jack Van Impe has parted ways with the Trinity Broadcasting Network in the wake of a broadcast where he claimed American pastors like Rick Warren and Robert H. Schuller were promoting a mix of Christianity and Islam he labeled “Chrislam.” A new survey from Pew finds that evangelicals in the n…

Forgiveness

By Amina Wadud

…k forgiveness from the family and others if not the victim directly. What happened in South Africa was that the family would have the choice to forgive. By forgiving, they raise the perpetrator back up to a level of humanity lost by the act perpetuated. If the family or victim continued to hold a grudge, what actually happens, in a manner of speaking, is they are then brought down to the level of the one who did the offense. This is the logistics…

Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

By Michael J. Altman

…onservative Christians for his crusade against pornography in the world of Apple. At least one Indonesian celebrity might agree with Jobs. Nazril Irham faces 12 years in jail for an alleged sex tape of his that has circulated Indonesia via the web and gotten him into trouble with Muslim authorities. Instead of porn, many are turning to their iPads for religion. Need to work on scripture memory? There’s an app for that. You can even use your…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…to start adapting forms of liturgy (which in reality has probably already happened). But I don’t think that will save older forms of religion. More likely, at least in the U.S., the forces of individualism, choice, a more democratized understanding of authority, broad access to all forms of knowledge (religious and otherwise), and the like, will continue to require religious organizations to adapt and change in response to new ways of thinking and…

Opponent of LGBT Equality Lauded for His Great Courage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…homophobe, and a spiritual terrorist. An online petition to ban an Exodus application from Apple’s iTunes store earlier this year drew more than 150,000 signatures. Apple dropped the Exodus app, saying it offended large groups of people. Oh, my—those vicious lions! Trying keep homophobia off their iPhones! Here’s a thought: Perhaps the lions wouldn’t be so testy if they didn’t have to justify their very existence. Perhaps the lions would be more…

Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

By Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst

…ng in the first place, the rigorous aspects of it. I guess I don’t see the appropriation as much because I think generally people come to it from a place of respect rather than wanting to diminish an institution or a practice in anyway. For example, I use the Buddify App, which I find very helpful for me because it has meditations that you can do while you’re walking to work. Is that a deep meditative practice? No, it definitely is not, and yet it…