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An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from be…

Mao, Meet Confucius: China’s Religious Revolution

By Kwok Pui-lan

…’s relation with the Vatican remains tenuous. In his controversial book, China’s Best Actor Wen Jiabao, China’s most famous Christian author and dissident Yu Jie mocks the popular Chinese Premier as paternalistic and a “puppet” for the hard-nosed Chinese Communist Party. His books have been banned in China since 2004. Yu converted to Christianity after he was disillusioned by the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, and had openly criticized the suppress…

No, It’s Still Yogaphobia

By Andrea R. Jain

…ramatic distinctions between yoga systems. After all, it lists no specific eastern system, instead referring broadly and essentializing to “eastern methods,” a category that discourages discernment and instead implies some set of shared characteristics or static core. The underlying assumption is that Catholic doctrine and eastern methods are equally homogenous, irrevocably separate, alien entities. In this way, the Letter betrays a bias toward do…

Failure to Grasp the Distinct Character and History of Eastern Christianity is Compromising Our Understanding of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

By Katherine Kelaidis

…from the specific historical and generational trauma that pervades so many Eastern Christian cultures), why are its debates any different from those in the West? In fact, Eastern Christianity (and the culture it arises from and produces) is unique—as distinct in many ways as Islamic or Confucian civilization is from the West. It has its own history, memory, values, and customs, all of which are distinct from its Western counterpart, despite a comm…

Why the Hell Does Hell Still Matter?

By Kathryn Gin

…. The common claim that hell has been on the outs in America since at least 1800 is simply untrue. If anything, 1800 represented a turning point in the other direction. The idea of universal salvation had appealed to both elites like Chauncy and common folk in the late-1700s. The promise that all humans would eventually be saved represented an extreme backlash against the dominant Calvinist notion that God chose only some for heaven. Universal sal…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…omen have long been marginalized by men. A man asking a woman to move on a flight may reasonably be interpreted as another chapter in a seemingly never-ending story. I am sympathetic to such a view. But haven’t Orthodox Jews experienced a long history of oppression? As far as who feels marginalized in the specific context of a typical commercial flight, consider that separation of sexes is far more common in traditional religious environments. Doe…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…our flight to JFK, the first leg in a thirty-hour series of international flights, without notification. At the airport we learned that our savvier co-passengers had already filled the Delta flight that was our only alternative. I assumed that the system would somehow take care of us—we had paid good money and followed every rule—until our travel agent called with frantic instructions: “You must make this connection. Bribe two Delta passengers! P…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…rough a lens of inveterate mendacity. Iran has strong ties with Russia and China. China in particular needs to bring Iranian petrochemicals overland through Central Asia, lessening Chinese dependence on the Hormuz chokepoint and the Malaccan Straits. But those same relationships which give Iran diplomatic cover—consider, really, how few options Barack Obama has to get Iran to the table—can also be an Achilles heel. Iranians are in the process of d…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…y in 2070 Might Not Actually Be True The wild card that could sink item 2: China. Five years ago, China’s Christian population was an estimated 65 million—just 5% of the country’s population of 1.3 billion—including the two sects of state-sanctioned Christian churches and rough estimates of those who belong to non-state-sanctioned or “underground” churches. The truth is—and the Pew researchers admit as much—it’s really difficult to accurately esti…

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…ly swarm to three million persons! But others travel to Jeddah too on this flight, including Muslims and non-Muslims. Jeddah is a port city; and as the major airport hub for Saudi Arabia, this flight has all types. Now, I’ve been on many planes, but this is the first time I’ve been on a plane where 50% of the seats are business- and first-class. Sorta gives you an idea who comes to the Kingdom, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike: big business. Ok…