fasting from social media
Pundits repent of Twitter sins, apply faith to social media
By Elizabeth E. Evans — March 13, 2019
(RNS) — Political insiders and other pundits who are public about their beliefs are taking steps to tweet, post and blog according to the tenets of their faith.
When Lenten fasting is indistinguishable from a New Age cleanse
By Tara Isabella Burton — February 28, 2019
(RNS) — Modern Lent has come to have more in common with Dry January — the viral sensation encouraging New Year's resolvers to give up alcohol for a month — than with its ecclesiastic antecedents.
My Mormon social media fast
By Jana Riess — January 2, 2019
(RNS) — I learned a couple of valuable lessons I wasn't expecting during a 10-day Mormon social-media fast.
Fasting from Facebook in the Age of Trump
By Jana Riess — December 8, 2016
Both conservatives and liberals have made social media an intolerable place for me to be. In the last month I've drastically reduced the time I spend on Facebook and Twitter, and it has been a life-nourishing spiritual practice.
All Mormons Should Fast on Fast Sunday
By Jana Riess — July 8, 2013
I don’t think any Mormons should be exempt from fasting, whether they are sick, pregnant, nursing, old, traveling, or recovering from an eating disorder. The problem is not the expectation that we should fast once a month. The problem is the all-or-nothing way that Mormons tend to go about it.
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