Religion Dispatches
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 MoreNot 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 MoreA 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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This week dozens of prominent evangelical leaders gathered at conservative Wheaton College, in Wheaton, IL,…
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In the Atlantic this morning, Jonathan Merritt writes a bemused narrative of this week’s evangelical about-face as,…
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Did Pope Francis just throw a wrench into Donald Trump’s machinations to win the evangelical vote? Referring…
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“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary’s famous exhortation still influences our view of so-called psychedelic…
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Larycia Hawkins, a tenured political science professor at the evangelical stalwart Wheaton College, was placed…
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It’s not simply reinforcing western privilege or turning us into contented drones.
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Ryan Bell no longer believes in God, exactly. Bell is the former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor who last January made…
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