If, as Umberto Eco tells it, "the list is the origin of culture," then the Internet may be culture's apotheosis.…
A modest defense of the listicle
Internet
Comments don’t replace the news
Pope Francis has called the Internet a “gift from God.” If that’s the case, one has to wonder what message…
When readers respond
Writing about religion in the digital age means that your readers respond. They have, of course, always responded; but in…
Debating online religious practices
Participation in online religious communities and practices ("liking" religious pages on Facebook, posting religious messages, and joining online religious communities)…
Is internet dependence sacrilegious?
Commenting on Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Religion dispatches' Jonathan L. Walton cites an absent…
The pope’s digital turn
Elizabeth Drescher, at Religion Dispatches, discusses the pope's recent call for priests to get savvy with online media. She questions…
Search engine religion
At Science & Religion Today, Jim Jansen announces a new article of his [pdf], published in the journal Religion, about…