7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban
In the span of three tweets the president declared this morning that as many as…
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Trump’s Twitter Rant Helpfully Models Universal Human Depravity, Spokesperson Suggests
Any Christian who still defends Trump as he lies, harasses, insults and demeans those around him can only do so by saying, in effect, “So what? We are all morally depraved.”
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10 Pro-LGBT #ChristiansVote Tweets From Anti-Gay, Pro-Trump Hashtag Hijack
The hashtag was co-opted by Believe Out Loud, a nonpartisan campaign that elevates pro-LGBT voices within faith communities.
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“Digital Discipline”: Five Questions on #ReLent2016
A campaign launched by Baltimore-based Lutheran pastor and Slate Project co-founder Jason Chesnut, #ReLent2016 reinvents Lent…
Read MoreThe 11 Best #RealClergyBios Tweets
Over the weekend, the #realclergybios hashtag spread like Gospel on Twitter, with countless pastors and seminarians…
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Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In
As a former (veteran, even) employee of Twitter, I am used to people expressing shock and…
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Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform
Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…
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“Own Your Heresy”: The Argument Over Who Gets to Do Public Theology Takes a Sharp Turn
The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,”…
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3 Takeaways from #Easter2015
Easter is the most Rocky-like story in the Christian canon. There’s blood, a sudden reversal, and…
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Church Synod Recap: Micromanaging the Morals of Others
Changes in tone are no substitute for changes in substance.
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