About the Author: Elizabeth Drescher

Elizabeth Drescher is the author of Tweet If You ♥ Jesus: Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation (Morehouse, 2011) and, with Keith Anderson, the forthcoming Click 2 Save: The Digital Ministry Bible (Morehouse, 2012). She is a regular commentator on culture and technology for Religion Dispatches. She teaches religious studies and pastoral ministries at Santa Clara University. Her Web site is

  • Who Would Jesus Marry?

    By Published On: September 27, 2012

    Into that fraught landscape came the news earlier this week that Karen L. King, a Harvard Divinity School church historian and expert on the controversial biblical figure, Mary Magdalene, had been given access to a papyrus fragment held by a private collector.

  • Episcopal Church Divided Over Trinity

    By Published On: February 12, 2012

    On Friday, Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, and Mark Sisk, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, issued separate

  • Forget Right or Wrong: Why the National Day of Prayer is Obsolete

    By Published On: May 10, 2010

    If the traditional practice of prayer in the context of traditional institutional religions is increasingly meaningless for a significant and growing proportion of American believers and seekers, one wonders what the spiritual or civic value is of attempting to encourage the practice through governmental fiat.