What language and frameworks do we draw upon to name the impact of the violent conflation of global state-sanctioned antiblack…
Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion
digital technologies
Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World
What would religiosity look like if social distancing became the “new normal”? Would expressions of faith need to become increasingly…
Digital media, religious authority, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Though the ultra-Orthodox case is, of course, particular, it calls attention to how digital media may affect religious communities during…
Digital projects in the classroom
In this “off the cuff” discussion, we focus particularly on digital resources and their relationship to pedagogy. We invited contributors…
There is such a thing as a tech chaplain
It is my birthday, and I have taken an emergency house call from one of my professors. She offers to…
eBay and the historical imagination
Some seek God in algorithms. Others seek a kind of divinity in the pastness of the past. The former seek…
A modest defense of the listicle
If, as Umberto Eco tells it, "the list is the origin of culture," then the Internet may be culture's apotheosis.…
Religion for commoners
One of the essential early texts of the open source software movement was “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” a 1999…
Give me that digital religion
Every Sunday night in Omaha, Nebraska, a small group gathers in a United Church of Christ church lobby to watch…
Anatomy of a tweet
I fell in love with the Perfect Man at a young age. He was humble, compassionate, strong, disciplined, affectionate, and,…