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Insert Provocative Title Here: The New Media Landscape

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri

…ess, very few are well-funded. Blogging and online websites exist only, in most cases, at the mercy of advertising revenues. So while the number of voices has increased, the number of well-funded reporters has decreased. It’s reassuring to think that as print news takes a hit, online media will be there to fill the gap, but the story isn’t quite that simple. Content is certainly being generated, but it’s proving no easy replacement for print. Many…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…inspired terrorism in these United States. I am ready to step up, and I am most eager to hear what you think. Hartford Seminary notes that it isn’t all that easy to numerate all of the Christian congregations in the U.S., but they nevertheless put the number at roughly 338,000. I am willing to work with this number until a better one comes along. Of this number, roughly 8,000 congregations claim upwards of 1,000 members; most are smaller, indeed m…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…ngest growth over the last decade has been among Latino populations, and almo*]}*st 4.5 million Mormons worldwide are Spanish-speaking. Economic downtimes and anti-immigrant outcry go hand-in-hand in American history. And even though Utah has a 7% unemployment rate significantly lower than the national average, anti-immigrant sentiment is running strong in the Beehive State. With a bill modeled on Arizona’s SB 1070 under construction and headed for th…

DeSantis is a No-Show, the Right’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ and Final Thoughts on Pray Vote Stand

By PRA Staff

…re intertwined with direct and personal promises to soothe the deepest and most intimate wellsprings of vulnerability, suffering and insecurity felt by their followers in the audience. Sitting in those pews, I realized in a new way that millions of people across the US have been thoroughly conditioned to believe that ‘saving America’ (in essence, through instituting an exclusionary theocracy) and saving their own soul are one and the same. In an e…

Uganda Isn’t Alone in Persecuting Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ber of Deputies approves, the draft code will go before the Rwandan Senate most likely in early 2010. It’s not like this is shocking news on the continent where 38 of Africa’s 53 nations outlaw homosexuality, including Kenya where a homosexual act can land you in prison for up to 14 years. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg: Nigeria has a similar bill (to the Ugandan legislation) waiting to reach its statute books and already allows the death…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…at the staff failed to report it; and indeed, her words were posted as a testimonial on a Planned Parenthood-affiliated website (only to be taken down later, when some pro-life activists drew the conclusion that someone at Planned Parenthood must have knowingly let the rape go unreported). This is supposed to be a sinister, telling, part of the growing mountain of evidence. Finally, then there are some incidents that do seem like they might be ins…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…reproductive rights. The summer’s events proved that the framing shared by most media outlets —democracy and abortion rights vs. the economy and “kitchen table” issues—is deeply misleading. And no wonder: What could be more “kitchen table” than the rights of the people sitting around the kitchen table? It was one of the more uplifting moments of the year, one that the polls had foreseen quite accurately (even if no one believed them) since the eve…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…here black women’s contributions may be stifled or silenced? First and foremo*]}*st, it’s not a matriarchal space, but it is a maternal space. It’s a space where anyone can come into it. It’s very important to me to recognize what it means to say that the black woman is God. She has the mitochondria that holds all of the human race in it, she’s the only one who has that. It’s called the Eve gene. Now what does that mean? It means she has given birth t…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…the number of abortions is not to legislate against the practice, which almo*]}*st certainly will create a huge backlash and arguably represents an infringement of liberties. The way to diminish the incidence of abortion, he counters, is to diminish demand through sex education and the availability of contraceptives. The only way truly to bring about meaningful reform on this issue is to change the terms of the conversation and alter the moral climat…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…f the Catholic Church. But after a decade of explosive sex abuse scandals, most prominently involving minor children, Birge’s story doesn’t fit the recognized narrative. She was already an adult when it happened, and her alleged attacker is not an ordained member of the clergy. Both facts point to under-recognized trends in the Church that touch on its continuing problem with sex abuse: that adults are often its victims, if rarely its public face,…