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Is Criticizing Mitt Romney an Excommunicable Offense? No.

…ir faith. That question of openness—the matter and manner in which the LDS community sorts through its own history and practices—is a source of tension among Mormons today. It’s complicated by so many factors—among them the youth of the Church, Mormon feelings of vulnerability to persecution from and misunderstanding by outsiders, the historical value assigned to secrecy when Mormon lifeways were under threat and from the US government in the nine…

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E-vangelism: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Blog-Ranking

…s the goals of a Christian community-oriented service.” YourChristianSpace.com, is an online community promoted as “a better place for Christians” encourages users to “meet new saints” and “let their light so shine” online. All over the internet people masquerade as people they are not, take on new roles, assume ‘avatars’, but here users are instructed to “not lie or misrepresent age, gender or e-mail addresses using YourChristianSpace.com Service…

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“Digital Discipline”: Five Questions on #ReLent2016

…those who would never set foot in a church normally. https://twitter.com/TheSlateProject/status/699659532352368642 https://twitter.com/RevSistahGirl/status/703229824475594753 https://twitter.com/lutheranSLP/status/707028749158580224 https://twitter.com/dianabutlerbass/status/703021975782891520 https://twitter.com/revshiz/status/699940567103488001…

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Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families

…ormation infrastructure since the 1960s, when Christian schools began to become common as a means of reinforcing white supremacist patriarchy in the face of civil rights gains. I suspect there’s no scalable way to bridge the deep divides among Americans that pandemic conditions and recent protests over racial injustice have thrown into stark relief. And, while it might help if the “respectable” evangelicals who support vaccination would take some…

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White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

…y supporting local activists and his congregation in addition to his other commitments, Dr. Johnson generously agreed to comment for this article. Responding to a question about Andy Stanley, he expanded on his lament about the need for black bodies to provide American redemption. “Whenever we talk about how God is going to use something evil for good, why does it have to take black bodies being strangled out, to be strangled and killed, on camera…

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#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

…https://twitter.com/aejohnsonphd/status/778405804990795776 https://twitter.com/kmt188/status/778463459998433281 https://twitter.com/thel0rdbyr0n/status/778796398300979200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/NyashaJunior/status/778781467325308928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/frankwilliam77/status/778450830055702528 Many who participated in the Twitter chat shared their frustration about their church’s silence on race in general, whil…

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The Church of Man-Love: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 7

…mself.” Talismanic objects such as ticket stubs and tour T-shirts are more common; most common of all are venerated images displayed on bedroom walls: on the Bowie fansite Ziggy Stardust Companion, an ardent fan named Madeline proudly displays a blurry snapshot of her “Ziggy wall.”10 (image, upper right). Wall-mounted photo collages are devotional aids—focal points for inner dialogues with the deity, daydreams, wet dreams, wish-fulfillment fantasi…

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Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

…lication, Mansfield did an interview with Ben Smith, a writer for Politico.com (the online wing of the Politico news organization). In the column, titled “Bush Backer Pens pro-Obama Book,” Smith writes that the book’s “tone ranges from gently critical to gushing, and the author defends Obama—and even his controversial former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—from conservative critics, and portrays him as a compelling figure for Christian voters.”…

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Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

…Yourself” that he and the Spiders “move around like tigers on Vaseline.” “Come on, come on,” he pants, in time, syncopating the Spiders’ skidding, careening beat. I catch myself thinking how sexy he is. And I wonder what that means. And I realize I don’t care. • Riding the volume knob, I split the difference between waking my parents and coaxing all the ecstasy I can from the TV’s tin-can speaker. I don’t know how to take this I don’t see why he…

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Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

…n credit in spaces supposedly dedicated to honoring women. https://twitter.com/zenbuffy/status/793775650159165440 https://twitter.com/sianushka/status/793713417945223168 https://twitter.com/HOBTempestRose/status/793794280187916288 I’m not a biological essentialist. I take people’s identity at their word. But here’s the thing—Bono self-identifies as a man. He says so right in the Glamour interview. And while the publication tries to explain that wo…

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