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Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

By Sofi Hersher

…g to identify potentially radical organizations and individuals. The Green Number, or Numéro Vert, is a private telephone hotline in France where family and friends can report someone they fear may become radicalized. And in the U.K., Prevent is a program that essentially creates ‘trigger warnings’ for teachers and institutions to report the potential for radicalization. I do not mean to condemn or even criticize these programs, merely to point ou…

The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church

By Paul Gorrell

…e attached. Benedict makes it clear who is part of this more tightly circumscribed church and who is not. While many people are troubled by the Pope’s embrace of Holocaust-deniers and saddened when priests ask folks to step out of communion lines because of how they vote, Benedict believes that those who value spiritual sentiment over orthodoxy do not fit the mold of what it means to be Catholic today. They must see the church and Catholicism the…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, to call on society to collapse together all the taboos and to overcome discourses of hatred and discrimination. I am certain that in Jalisco we must celebrate love regardless of gender, identity or sexual preference. I also believe that the values that characterize us as a society have room for tolerance, respect and brotherhood. It is time for policymakers to speak clearly, that we should not be afraid to fix positions in front of society; On…

Mike Johnson isn’t Just Your Average Christian Right Avatar — He’s Influenced by Fringe Movements Unfamiliar to Most Political Analysts

By Annika Brockschmidt

…in the books they read, the sermons they hear, the lessons they receive at school or in homeschooling, and in the language of their politicians—that few of them actually think about where it came from. It just is what they believe, and you’d be hard pressed to find someone who says they are a Reconstructionist (in part because it has such a bad rap) or a dominionist (ditto) but many of these basic beliefs emerge from the teachings of Rushdoony and…

The Next Big Religion Issue: Immigration

By Daniel Schultz

…stumbling across at least one immigration-related story. Leaders of the Disciples of Christ and the Episcopal church are behind immigration reform; so are the Methodists, and various Catholics and Jews and Presbyterians and Evangelicals. The United Church of Christ, too, but nobody asks them, either. Leaders of the ecumenical immigration reform movement even scored a coveted White House meeting, so you have to know somebody in the corridors of po…

“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…of the experience. Sometimes you need a poet, and sometimes you do need a scientist. Science doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Scientists have culture and traditions, and we’ve seen throughout history how science inevitably reflects the values and assumptions of its age. You point to popular science that resembles certain Christian concepts, but isn’t there a risk that you’re caught in a feedback loop? I would say it’s a risk. It’s also, I assume, what…

Episcopal Conference Lives Up to Episcopal Jokes

By Julie Ingersoll

…e they were gone. Indeed, according to Wikipedia there are over 7,000 Episcopal congregations in the US with over 2 million members, though the significance of that number is unclear since, as the priest in the church where I was baptized once teased me: “when you’re baptized we have you; you’re ours and you don’t have much to say about it.” Recent reports indicate that about 350 congregations have departed to affiliate with more conservative…

Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later

By R. Drew Smith

…n 1980.” Moreover, as noted in a report by ProPublica, there are a growing number of schools whose white population is 1 percent or less (mostly in the Northeast and Midwest), and roughly 12 percent of black students in the South attend such schools. The tragic plight of impoverished and immobile New Orleanians forced to ride out Katrina in 2005 also serves as a poignant metaphor of what has been a much larger problem of urban poor populations acr…

The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…e. Another outgrowth of the Enlightenment, too, is the historical-critical scholarship on the Gospels. How much was that a part of your process? Not much. I revere that kind of scholarship, and I looked at it just to make sure I wasn’t being a jerk, but it wasn’t feeding the appetite I was interested in. It wasn’t explaining the ridiculous powers that this character of Jesus has. Why is he such a hit? People went to fundamentalism and to very anti…

PCUSA’s Nod to “Traditional” Marriage Understandable, but Not Accurate

By William E. Smith

…mporary Christians, including Presbyterians. Other issues, such as race, miscegenation laws, and divorce, likewise show how different current ideas about “traditional marriage” are from what marriage has actually been. These various changes to Christian marriage, moreover, help us see what assumptions, often unacknowledged, Christians bring to their conceptions of marriage. Notice that Presbyterians, like Episcopalians, most evangelicals, and near…