“It’s not just a one-day march. It’s our long-term ability to build a strong climate movement that we need to invest in.” —Ananda Lee Tan I’ll be at the People’s Climate March in NYC all day Sunday. Over 1,500 organizations are now registered to participate, and over 800 buses including ours will be heading to […]
About That: Gatekeeping In Mixed Company
About That posts feature responses to current events in 280 characters or fewer. Last week’s religious advertising flap Evangelicals for Marriage Equality: The Full-Page Advertisement That Wasn’t [via Hemant Mehta] (9/8) Religious News Service: Was Christianity Today Justified in Rejecting This Controversial Ad? (9/12) 9/18 Update: Evangelicals for Marriage Equality: A Response To Our Critics (9/18) About That It’s facile to […]
A Memo from a New World (No. 1)
Adapted from a tweet series I shared with Twitter earlier this week. You’re not following me on Twitter yet? Come talk with me. Five years ago, I wrote a reflection on the last Adventist fundamental belief, the New Earth. The teaching is based on Revelation 21 and other apocalyptic and gospel texts, and my writing […]
Review: “Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible” with the Religion Institute
Recognizing Bi People of Faith: Beyond Myth, Ignorance, and Individualism The original version of this review was posted on petersontoscano.com. For more than a decade, Peterson Toscano has worked at the intersection of sexuality and faith, sharing stories about religious anti-LGBTI therapies and recovering our knowledge of gender variance in the Christian scriptures. This year, Peterson turns […]
Reader Review 8
Long and short reads for your next weekend review. May 2014 edition. Social Web Demographics Shift, and Bells Toll [Prematurely?] for Email, Facebook, and Twitter Buzzfeed: What I Learned After Quitting Email For A Week (Charlie Warzel) < A whole week! Deadspin: Facebook Is Dead (Drew Magary) The Atlantic: A Eulogy for Twitter (Adrienne LaFrance, Robinson Meyer) Core quotes: “Email […]
Reader Review #6: Listening Edition
Instead of my standard round-up of general news, articles, and media, this week’s Reader Review focuses on an international summit on sexuality and gender that the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church is hosting in Cape Town, South Africa. The summit began this morning, and the Adventist Review quotes co-organizer Pardon Mwansa: “The quality of meetings is […]