Should Chaplains Be Involved in Psychedelic Experiences? Are ‘Trips’ Inherently Religious?
Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions recently held a discussion titled “What…
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The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point
Much of the discussion of white evangelicals laments the loss of their moral standing, but such criticisms suffer under the misunderstanding that white evangelicalism in the United States has somehow devolved from a once salutary moral vision to brute political opportunism.
Read MoreThe Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’
Not only are claims that the religious left is “on the rise” as old as the contemporary religious right itself, but the framing of the religious left may actually further enable the religious right.
Read MoreSo What if Psychedelics Are ‘Just’ Spiritual?
A recent journal study found that the majority who use the psychedelic DMT do so for the expressed purpose of spiritual exploration. Will that kind of data hurt the prospects for the future study of psychedelics?
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Maybe It’s Time to Admit That The “Grotesque Caricature” of White Evangelicals is the Reality
This week dozens of prominent evangelical leaders gathered at conservative Wheaton College, in Wheaton, IL,…
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Repent, Hillary: Trump’s Evangelical Backers Play the Sin Card
In the Atlantic this morning, Jonathan Merritt writes a bemused narrative of this week’s evangelical about-face as,…
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Will Evangelicals Vote for a Non-Christian Trump? If They Don’t, the Vatican May Fall to ISIS
Did Pope Francis just throw a wrench into Donald Trump’s machinations to win the evangelical vote? Referring…
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Do Psychedelics Offer a Path To The “God Within”?
“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary’s famous exhortation still influences our view of so-called psychedelic…
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It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging
Larycia Hawkins, a tenured political science professor at the evangelical stalwart Wheaton College, was placed…
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What the Critics of the Mindfulness Trend Don’t Get
It’s not simply reinforcing western privilege or turning us into contented drones.
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