Twitter’s ‘cancelation’ of free speech isn’t a legal question, it’s a moral one
By Avi Shafran — January 15, 2021
(RNS) — In the Talmud, the repository of Jewish wisdom, the operative principle is: 'Evil speech kills.'
Revisiting ‘The Last Battle’: C.S. Lewis’ Narnia tale for our times
By Bob Smietana — December 31, 2020
(RNS) — C.S. Lewis’ often overlooked final chapter of the Chronicles of Narnia still speaks to us today.
Black Jesus version of Michelangelo’s Pietà divides Catholics on race and politics
By Claire Giangravé — September 18, 2020
(RNS) — The conservative Catholic news website Church Militant used the image, which it said ‘profanes the Pieta’ to criticize the head of the agency that posted it, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia.
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.
Protester, Oluwatoyin Salau, found dead after tweeting assaulter was ‘disguised as a man of God’
By Kathryn Post — June 15, 2020
(RNS) — Black Lives Matter protester Oluwatoyin Salau has been found dead days after she reported being sexually assaulted by a man who offered to give her a ride to a church.
Falwell apologizes for tweet that included racist photo
By Associated Press and Kathryn Post — June 9, 2020
(AP) — ‘I understand that by tweeting an image to remind all of the governor’s racist past I actually refreshed the trauma that image had caused,’ said Falwell.
What happens when a virus forces faith communities to go virtual
By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — March 12, 2020
(RNS) — When two or three are gathered on Facebook, is Christ there? When 10 Jews meet on a Zoom call, is it a minyan?
Giving victims of religious trauma a voice
By Chrissy Stroop — January 29, 2020
(RNS) — A recent tweetstorm about how to teach kids about faith was a testament to how little we hear in our national conversation from those who have experienced religious trauma.
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.
White evangelicals’ attacks on James Cone are about power, not truth
By Andre Henry — January 9, 2020
(RNS) — A specter has been haunting white evangelicalism, in the shape of the late James Cone, a founder of black liberation theology.
Behind Weird Christian Twitter, millennials bent on rebelliously orthodox belief
By Tara Isabella Burton — November 8, 2019
(RNS) — Weird Christianity may still be a fringe identity, but it gets at a much bigger question about the future of Christianity in an increasingly fragmented, irreligious age.
David raped Bathsheba, and why that matters
By Russell L. Meek — November 1, 2019
(RNS) — If we can use a softer label or somehow chalk sexual violence up to lust or hormones or a woman’s seduction, those who defend or cover up for clergy sexual abuse are off the hook.
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.
Tech companies join Muslim groups in support of historic bill to end travel ban
By Aysha Khan — September 23, 2019
(RNS) — If passed, the bill would be the first legislation to focus specifically on Muslims’ rights.
By their tweets you will know them: The Democrats’ continuing God gap
By Ryan Burge — August 30, 2019
(RNS) — If they want to win back the White House, Democrats need to reach Christian voters. At least on social media, Democratic candidates are failing to do so.
