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The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…s with a sleek new website redesign, and a shifting of emphasis toward an “online-first” reporting strategy. But actually, the Forward has long stood out among the Jewish media landscape for actually being progressive, in that it does not prescribe ideology but actually reports stories. As Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall wrote last year about former Forward editor turned columnist J. J. Goldberg’s coverage of Israel during the Gaza violen…

The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

By Cathleen Falsani

…ee, they are, like most other shows nowadays, available for binge watching online.) In seasons past, Paige (Holly Taylor) has been suspicious of her parents (played by Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys). Were they really who they said they were? Why were there so many travel agency-related emergencies that called them away from home in the middle of the night? Was anything they told her or taught her about life true? Paige’s new-found religiosity star…

West Virginia Mayor Enlists Churches To Pray Away Drugs and Crime

By Sarah Posner

…tion to the scourge of drugs and crime in his community. In a video posted online, Williams makes a plea to local ministers for “all the churches within the tri-state” to pray on September 7 for healing of those experiencing substance abuse, for the protection of law enforcement officers, and even for drug dealers. Huntington is a city of about 350,000 that sits near the state’s borders with Ohio and Kentucky. The local news coverage of Williams’…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…ary 2012 and later ex-elder Jeff Bettger felt compelled to share his story online in December 2013, other leaders began to come forward and tell their stories publicly, regardless of the repercussions. This shift from outsider voices critiquing Driscoll to insiders sharing their stories is perhaps best exemplified in a recent piece by The Stranger‘s Brendan Kiley. Unlike previous coverage of Driscoll that focused solely on his bad boy persona, Kil…

God Hates Nags: Why in God’s Name is Westboro Protesting Kim Davis?

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…s on annulments. Yet the dissonance is not fully resolved. For example, in online chatrooms and in advice columns, evangelical Christians continue to ask not only whether remarriage is permissible but whether holding or even merely attending a second wedding in a church is a violation of Christian sexual ethics. Almost unanimously, though, evangelical Christian culture permits divorce and remarriage for Christians. Theologically, evangelical Chris…

In Defense of Richard Dawkins, Awe-Full Scientist

By Alana Massey

…r, when he recalls “…I noticed even more forcibly than before the enormous numbers of people who come into the book-signing queue, and they nearly always say something like, ‘I became a scientist because of you, you’ve changed my life.’” To know that more people are lining up to thank Richard Dawkins for his contributions to science is something to be glad about for those of us who feel that what we actually do with our lives is more important tha…

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

By The Editors

…ssible way. When we launched it wasn’t yet clear what it meant to publish online, especially as a digital native. Also, in the case of RD, there wasn’t a single legacy publication that we could model ourselves after—at least in terms of the material we wanted to cover. Like other new media startups we had to invent, or co-create, the space we wanted to work in. In this reflective, pre-birthday mood, we were particularly struck by an exchange of v…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…anta Barbara, Schneider began his editing career at Killing the Buddha, an online religion magazine. As a writer, Schneider has brought a clear-eyed enthusiasm to his commentary on the Occupy movement for The Nation, Harper’s, and The New York Times. He has also written about the largesse of the Templeton Foundation and profiled the anthropologist Gabriella Coleman for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Schneider’s “The Biblical Circus of William…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ghteen months and gathering narrative input from another hundred-and-forty online. While the appeal to this religiously unaffiliated cohort of such plainly religious (and, not for nothing, political) messaging might come as a surprise to some, according to the 2008 Pew “US Religious Landscape Survey,” seven-in-ten Nones emerge into Noneness from Christian backgrounds. So, it makes sense that the Christian idiom—its narratives, rituals, symbols, pr…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…Write About Africa,” came out publicly this week by publishing an article online called, “I am a homosexual, Mum.” It is presented as a “lost chapter” from his 2011 memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place. As the Global Post’s Tristan McConnell notes, “On a continent where secrecy defines the gay experience and where a majority of countries outlaw homosexuality, coming out is a rare step for a public figure.” Wainaina “struggled with the re…