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How Orthodox Jewish women are creating a parallel entertainment market
By Yonat Shimron — March 4, 2024
(RNS) — Jessica Roda's new book explores how women in Haredi communities are embracing and creating digital arts tailored to the gender-segregated world of women.
Alan Lightman’s new TV series explores where humans fit in the universe
By Yonat Shimron — January 6, 2023
(RNS) — In the new three-part series, the scientist interviews some of the brightest minds about the thorniest questions. How did life first emerge? Why are we here?
When mixing faith with furries, things can get hairy
By Riley Farrell — August 2, 2022
(RNS) — A Christian movement has established itself inside the mostly religion resistant world of furry fandom.
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.
In an era of disinformation we have to hold The Tennessean to a higher standard
By Abdou Kattih — June 25, 2020
(RNS) — Last Sunday, The Tennessean, a Gannett newspaper, ran a full-page advertisement in its print edition that perpetuated disinformation, aimed at inspiring fear, and ultimately hate.
Learning trust in the sharing economy
By Christina Crook — February 3, 2020
(RNS) — The sharing economy is removing traditional social barriers and engendering trust. What can we learn from this as Christians?
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.
The next stage of witch resistance is here
By Tara Isabella Burton — November 15, 2019
(RNS) — If all realities are equally plausible in the Internet age, then there is no reason that magic should be less plausible, indeed less powerful, than any other form of reality-creation.
How technology opened new opportunities for Uighurs – then became a trap
By Darren Byler — September 18, 2019
(The Conversation) — The Uighur internet, which once fostered a cultural flourishing for Uighurs, has become a space that controls many aspects of their lives.
How fan fiction gave millennials power over their spirituality
By Tara Isabella Burton — March 22, 2019
(RNS) — The internet has transformed our consumption of texts — even sacred texts — into malleable pieces that can be reimagined, reinvented and owned in a new way.
What do you get the internet for its birthday?
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 12, 2019
Can we use the Internet to explain God to kids?
Study links anti-Muslim discrimination with radicalization
By Yonat Shimron — July 10, 2018
(RNS) — It found pro-ISIS sympathy is most prevalent in communities with high levels of anti-Muslim sentiment.
American Bible Society’s .bible domain policies restrict religious freedom online, critics say
By Yonat Shimron — March 13, 2018
(RNS) — The new domain strictly limits a wide range of faiths and essentially excludes any group with a scholarly or secular orientation.
Who owns the .bible?
By Marc Zvi Brettler — March 8, 2018
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — The Bible has never belonged to one group alone. Its internet namesake shouldn’t either.
Rihanna defies religious group’s warning to stay away from Senegal
By Lauren Markoe — February 2, 2018
(RNS) — The singer arrived in Dakar, the capital of the mostly Muslim West African nation, despite accusations from the group that she is a Freemason and supports gay people — both serious transgressions in their eyes.
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