Tag: religion
Words matter so WTF is a "Christian" anyway?
CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY) Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare
This call for papers invites work on religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring how belief, media, conspiracy, identity, and power shape struggles over reality, interpretation, and life in an age of disinformation, polarization, and contested truth. Essays may be theoretical, historical, or contemporary
The SCOTUS Six Only Believe in Religious Freedom for Christians
This Washington Post story mischaracterizes the 6-3 ruling against Damon Landor as a departure from SCOTUS rulings "expanding religious freedoms". Every ruling the story goes on to describe only expanded the ability to Christians to impose their interpretation of their beliefs in public spaces.
Listor på moskeér finns redan lätt tillgängliga
Folk är just nu upprörda över att Sverigedemokraterna (SD) sprider listor på alla moskéer i Sverige. Alla kanske är att ta i fö rde har säkert missat ganska många källarmoskéer. Upprördheten är också ganska onödig och missriktad.
Listor på moskéer finns redan lätt tillgängliga
Folk är just nu upprörda över att Sverigedemokraterna (SD) sprider listor på alla moskéer i Sverige. Alla kanske är att ta i fö rde har säkert missat ganska många källarmoskéer. Upprördheten är också ganska onödig och missriktad.
Video: Rise Up for the First Amendment
I was honored to be asked to share some remarks at a celebration of the First Amendment. The video should start from they block in which I'm speaking at the 1:30:48 mark. https://www.youtube.com/live/B7EbkKNy7Vk?si=wp7byCfAr8qyV3zt&t=5448 Freedom expression, religion, want, fear by libraryofcongress is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Video: WebinAAR Wikipedia as Pedagogy
In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who have incorporated Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy. During this roundtable session, faculty discuss why they decided to adopt the Wikipedia assignment and how it has affected their teaching. The panelists explore what Wikipedia can offer students and how students can help shape public understanding of...
New at Religion Dispatches: Another Mass Shooting. More Dead Muslims. This is America.
The night before the 101st birthday of Malcolm X, the night before the 105th birthday of Yuri Kochiyama, as I go to a reading group at the Jewish Cultural Center of Harlem to discuss the song “Strange Fruit,” I get the news. Another mass shooting. More dead Muslims. Portrait Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New by libraryofcongress...
What the Dwarf Knows: Exegesis and Improvisation on "Capitalism as Religion"
written with iris-claude for fun and profit
MEMBERSHIP FEE
Faith, morality, and why believing in God can sometimes feel less like a question of goodness and more like a question of membership.
VIVE LA DÉMOCRATIE
Vive la démocratie! From the Illuminati to technocrats, why every generation reinvents the same debate about who deserves to run the world.
IDIOTS GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE
Christian Zionism, prophecy, the apocalypse, and why you might just not be the good guys in this little story.
SEVEN KINGS
Revelation’s seven kings echo across history, and if you're counting, you're playing your last hand.
BURNT TOAST
A burnt toast sermon on heaven, happiness, and the futility of eternal bliss. - For joy only means something because it doesn’t last.
The Exvangelicals
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church: the exvangelicals. Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her Muslim friend would need to be converted, and that she, too, would go to hell if she did not believe fervently enough, McCammon was a rule-follower and — most of the time — a true believer. But through it all, she was increasingly plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she'd been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world. After spending her early adult life striving to make sense of an unraveling worldview, by her 30s, she found herself face-to-face with it once again as she covered the Trump campaign for NPR, where she witnessed first-hand the power and influence that evangelical Christian beliefs held on the political right. Sarah also came to discover that she was not alone: she is among a rising generation of the children of evangelicalism who are growing up and fleeing the fold, who are thinking for themselves and deconstructing what feel like the “alternative facts” of their childhood. Rigorously reported and deeply personal, The Exvangelicals is the story of the people who make up this generational tipping point, including Sarah herself. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is the first definitive book that names and describes the post-evangelical movement: identifying its origins, telling the stories of its members, and examining its vast cultural, social, and political impact.