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The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…iPhone might be my means of connection with the world—it is, after all, a phone—but it is also my own little password-locked garden that I carry with me wherever I go. Moreover, I can remake the landscape with a few flicks of my fingers whenever I choose. As a result, the territory necessarily mixes the sacred and the profane. My Pontiff app sits next to my iLightSaber, my virtual US Constitution, and an app that can tell me how much money I’m lo…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…Physicsworld.com user asks, “What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?” Where infinity merges with the earth When you dig into pi, you encounter questions that are as much theological as mathematical: is there a pattern to the universe? Or is it fundamentally random? And how do we reckon with the infinite? Some people have always insisted that there must be a pattern behind pi. If only h…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. And if they don’t, maybe the media should take a hard look at how it covers a predictable, lightly attended act of agitprop which claims to represent hundreds of thousands of people…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…-prophecy, for example, Julie Green told the crowd: “These aren’t Julie’s words. These are God’s words.” With that caveat, perhaps God was providing pre-emptive legal cover for his mouthpiece considering the words that came next: “My army is coming and it can’t be stopped. This nation is mine. I have blessed it and no one can stop what is about to take place. All I need is one day to remove my enemies from all their places of power like they were…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…is already quite popular. We deploy the more or less arbitrary system for numbering biblical verses in order to invoke whole arguments. Very often in public “discussions” of homosexuality, someone will stand up and begin to call out numbers. “But what about Genesis 19!” “Leviticus 18!” “Romans 1!” (Those citations refer respectively, and for those of you who have skipped out on church debates, a disturbing story about God’s punishing the sins of…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…umor with a silly streak, and a proclivity toward community. I put away my phone in order to devote free time to art, music, and curating opportunities for togetherness. I turned to studying music and religion as a graduate student, keenly aware of the powerful ability of both to link us and give us identity. I put those who had passed through my life on their own shelf, held tenderly in my memory, thankful for the growth, the joy, the awakening….

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…on, saying that the state government was proceeding with mass cremation in order to prevent the true number of deaths in and around Kedarnath from ever being known. One of the government organizations involved in rescuing survivors reportedly refused to assist with cremations. Even as the state government continues to conduct disaster relief there has been a wincing degree of political theater. A debate is developing about how the Badri-Kedar Temp…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…uild a church in Colorado Springs than the rapid population boom fueled by cheap land that would lead to a new free market Christianity political power base in the Western United States. In less than a decade, Haggard built one of the most influential megachurches in the nation. Not Everybody Loves a Comeback Story Today, Haggard and his wife Gayle jet set nearly every weekend to speak at emergent churches across the nation with a well-worn script…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…excommunicated Kate Kelly, a human rights lawyer who advocated for women’s ordination. However, the reasons cited for Dehlin’s expulsion concern some of his theological beliefs, not his values regarding marriage equality and the ordination of women. A letter written by a regional LDS leader named Bryan King, for instance, told Dehlin that he was being excommunicated “because of your categorical statements opposing the doctrines of the church, and…

Yes, It’s Worse To Be Gay in Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…bravery. The law that passed in June—which is, I think, best explained as cheap populist scapegoating—has served to activate and embolden widespread homophobia, which seems to me to have been previously often latent (the homophobia I encountered in Vladimir 10 years ago was none too aggressive). Phenomena like “Occupy Pedophilia” have appeared on the scene. Although it’s hard to say exactly how common anti-LGBT violence is in Russia, it should be…