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Is Criticizing Mitt Romney an Excommunicable Offense? No.

By Joanna Brooks

On Thursday, Newsweek/The Daily Beast reported that David Twede, one of the editors of Mormonthink.com, a website that addresses controversial issues in Mormon history and doctrine, was facing an LDS Church disciplinary council over “a series of articles he wrote this past week that were critical of Mitt Romney.” The Daily Beast linked to this article at Mormonthink.com, which suggests that Romney might be religiously obliged to take political i…

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

By Pauline Hope Cheong

Early visions of online religion pictured cyberspace as distinct from “brick and mortar” houses of worship, just as Amazon is different from a local bookstore. These online spaces allowed the germination of online spiritualities as independent movements, set apart from the jurisdiction of the local church. Internet spirituality was seen by some to be disruptive of religious practice, identity, and community. Today, however, what’s interesting for…

“Digital Discipline”: Five Questions on #ReLent2016

By Anita Little

A campaign launched by Baltimore-based Lutheran pastor and Slate Project co-founder Jason Chesnut, #ReLent2016 reinvents Lent as a “digital discipline.” Each week of #ReLent2016 has a different theme—repent, relinquish, rediscover, reconnect. And so far, the #ReLent2016 tag has made more than 25,000 impressions. https://twitter.com/RevSistahGirl/status/697469902442004480 #Relent2016 also has off-line components. To kick off Lent, Chesnut hit the…

Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families

By Chrissy Stroop

A friend of mine was raised in a family that was quirky, sarcastic, into alternative medicine, and, although not overly legalistic, evangelical. This friend was also raised with the notion that the proper Christian approach to voting is to go for the most right-wing, electable candidate. This friend—one of a very small handful of conservative Christians I’m still able to retain a meaningful friendship with—ultimately recognized some limits in thi…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

Yesterday, President Donald Trump stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, holding a Bible aloft as a nod to his white Christian nationalist base as he condemned those who damaged the church during the protests the night before. Minutes earlier, police had cleared the way from the White House to the church, which has a historic association with American presidents, with tear gas and physical force. White evangelicals, many…

#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

By Andre E. Johnson

On September 20th, mere hours after the police shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, pastor and professor Andre E. Johnson took to Twitter and started the hashtag #WhiteChurchQuiet to address the inadequacy of the white church in responding to police brutality and the harm that silence does to Black communities. The hashtag soon went viral, generating hundreds of tweets and retweets and quickly becoming a Twitter tren…

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

By Mark Dery

Read all previous installments here, or better yet, never miss another feature by signing up for the RD Daily Newsletter here. You’ll receive our features and blogs every day in your inbox. There was a psychological logic, as well, to my transition from born-again Christian to Bowie votary. Rock fandom, taken to its obsessive extreme, is indistinguishable from the hallucinating, levitating ardor of an enraptured believer like, say, Saint Teresa o…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

When Stephen Mansfield, a former evangelical pastor whose last bestseller was The Faith of George Bush, decided to research and explore the faith of another political leader—Barack Obama—the last thing he expected was to get attacked by the political and religious right. His book on Obama is not even on the shelves yet, but he’s already been accused of multiple forms of treachery, and the hate mail is flooding in. How did this come about? Stephen…

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

By Mark Dery

The following ran in eight installments, each of which can be accessed here. We present them as whole below for easy printing or reading. As you please. — ed. (1) As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When…

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

By Sunnivie Brydum

Glamour magazine’s annual Women of the Year list seems to have courted controversy in the past few years. In 2015, the magazine named newly out trans woman and Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner to its list, prompting backlash from across the ideological spectrum. This year, Glamour apparently decided to avoid that particular brand of controversy—by excluding trans women entirely from the list, but making room for the publication’s very first “…