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Insta-Famous: Nadirah Pierre’s satire draws on the Black Muslim experience
By Joseph Hammond — March 16, 2021
(RNS) — Relationships, marriage, body positivism, hijab — they're all fair game for the Haitian American's outspoken style and bold videos.
Celebrating Ash Wednesday in a pandemic? There’s an app for that
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 16, 2021
(RNS) — Catholic prayer and meditation app Hallow also has taken the day's most visible tradition online with an 'AshTag' filter on both Facebook and Instagram.
‘Give Me My Colored Coat’: Donny Osmond performs wedding in amazing technicolor dreamcoat
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 13, 2020
(RNS) — For a wedding ceremony performed by ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ star Donny Osmond, not just any robe will do.
What’s behind the ‘Cuties’ outrage?
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 18, 2020
(RNS) — The movie has provoked backlash since it landed last week on Netflix, the popular TV and movie streaming service. But what is the movie about, and why has it struck such a dissonant chord?
Why Jerry Falwell Jr.’s social media ‘yacht’ posts were problematic for Liberty University
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 15, 2020
(RNS) — For leaders of religious institutions, social media can be another way to share their public messages and a peek into their private lives. But it also can be dangerous, as Falwell has discovered.
ELCA Presiding Bishop Eaton lightens up on social media with viral neon Luther rose
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 10, 2020
CHICAGO (RNS) — The lighting of Bishop Eaton’s Luther rose was accompanied by the buzz of neon, the trumpet blast of Luther’s hymn ‘A Mighty Fortress’ and enthusiasm from Lutherans on social media.
If you’ve got Jesus in your profile, don’t be nasty on your timeline
By Daniel Darling — July 27, 2020
(RNS) — As politics replaces religion as the driver of our discourse, we may forget to see the person on the other end of that tweet.
COVID-19 crisis provides opportunities and grace
By Thomas Reese — July 22, 2020
(RNS) — The coronavirus is wreaking havoc, but it’s also creating opportunities we shouldn’t miss to deepen family bonds and refocusing on the parts of faith that happen away from church on Sunday.
Facebook, Instagram unblock #Sikh hashtag amid 1984 massacre remembrance
By Aysha Khan — June 4, 2020
(RNS) — After nearly three months, Facebook and Instagram have unblocked the #Sikh hashtag, saying the block occurred ‘mistakenly’ after a user reported the hashtag in March.
Clergy laugh off bloopers as the coronavirus forces churches online
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 27, 2020
(RNS) — With so many using online tools for the first time and the internet’s inability to forget, some hilarity was bound to follow.
Catholic convert’s book on the Annunciation hopes to help parents inspire faith in Gen Z
By Claire Giangravé — March 25, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In her new book about the Annunciation, Catholic convert and poet Sally Read addresses young people’s relationship with social media and its impact on faith, drawing from her personal experience as a mother.
Teach your children well: Viral tweet sparks debate over passing on faith
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 14, 2020
(RNS) — A viral tweet sparked a conversation among Christians about the morality of parents passing on the faith to their children.
People of faith are heard online — but the partisans are winning
By Ryan Burge — November 18, 2019
(RNS) — The bad news is that the most outspoken religious people on social media are no less partisan than anyone else. The good news is that they are likely speaking to a silent majority of political pragmatists.
If God created the whole world, why is treating plants as holy so crazy?
By Benjamin Perry — October 2, 2019
(RNS) — The furor over #PlantGate may help explain why it’s so difficult to make progress in responding to climate change.
Tiffany Shlain wants to bring Shabbat to 21st century by resting from tech
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 25, 2019
(RNS) — Tiffany Shlain talked to Religion News Service about how she and her family began observing a Tech Shabbat, how it’s changed them and why others might consider the practice.
