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Where Do “Sacred” Values Live in the Brain?

By Arri Eisen

…so found that sacred values thinking activated the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain. Perhaps not too much surprise there. Why does any of this matter? It goes back to why we believe what we do; the military strategists, the politicians. People make decisions—and act—based on their beliefs. The more we understand about the mechanism of why people believe what they do and how they act on it, the more we understand about people, period. In…

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…und did indeed spark nationwide conversations about the very issues at the center of Moore’s Biblical world-view: questions of marriage, faith, and “natural law.” If Moore could accomplish all that without setting foot outside of Alabama, just imagine the trouble he’ll be able to stir up in Washington, D.C., where he’ll join the unofficial-but-growing Congressional “dominionist caucus,” which includes the Vice President. And if he finds himself si…

American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…in tough urban neighborhoods, while some never left. The Los Angeles Dream Center is a good example of the former, while the Union Rescue Mission is an example of the latter. This resurgence correlates with the current urban revitalization efforts in many cities. As urban areas are redeveloped, mostly younger professionals have moved into the newly built condos and lofts to take up residence in what were formerly “sketchy” areas. The result is tha…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…acted with outrage. On Thursday, students flooded Providence College’s ’64 center for an open-forum/protest called “Fighting for Academic Freedom.” At the meeting, a number of LGBT students made clear that they were profoundly upset by the administration’s decision. One student noted that the college’s actions had “further alienated the LGBT community”; that Lena’s decision implied that LGBT people were not “creatures of value and worth”; and tha…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…Jesus is saving I’m spending all my grace/On rosy-red pallor of lights on center stage.” On 2014’s “I Prefer Your Love To Jesus,” Clark reserves her ultimate love for her mother, whom she asks for forgiveness instead of any divine redeemer. “But all the good in me is because of you/It’s true,” she sings with the loud silence of omission of any mention of the God alleged to be the source of goodness. She defies God by leaving him out of her conclu…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…ely conservative (such as Joel Hunter, who is also on Newsweek’s list) and center-right (such as Jim Wallis, who I’d imagine would be unhappy to be placed on a list of religious right-ists, although one could argue on some issues it’s deserved). Hunter himself, although sharing much the Christian right (he supported, for example, a 2008 measure in his home state of Florida to ban gay marriage), he’s also affiliated himself with “common ground” mea…

‘Murder Among the Mormons’ Episode 3 Recap: What is Genuine?

By Benjamin E. Park

…circle around questions of authenticity and duplicity. The religion at the center of it, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, puts a premium on the certainty of knowledge; the mediums for Hofmann’s deception, antiquitous documents, are supposed to provide finality to historical questions. Hofmann took pleasure in destabilizing both. “He fooled me every single day,” his ex-wife, Dorie Olds, confesses. But what does it mean that so many…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…s created a documentary which is highly suggestive, but doesn’t get to the center of the cultural importance of the internet. No one will confuse this documentary with the work of a sociologist like Sherry Turkle, but with Lo and Behold Herzog has given us a good start at thinking about how the net is pushing us to rethink our values and morals and transforming the invisible assumptions that shape the way we live and experience the world. And Herz…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ormous risk by coming out as gay. András Simonyi, managing director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, and a visiting research fellow, Mihai Pătru, published a commentary at Huffington Post this week arguing that the international LGBT community has a goal but no strategy. One excerpt: It is useful to take into account the history of other human rights struggles, but this is not enough in today’s international c…

Tea Party Organizes Islamophobic Hate Rally

By Hussein Rashid

…r in question, Amir Abdel Malik Ali, was cited by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “bigoted speaker.” In this video, however, and by all reports, none of the protestors were actually protesting the speakers. They were yelling and screaming at people who had come to give money to help end domestic violence and homelessness. The protestors were saying that these were the actions of terrorists. They were cursing children as young as 4. As Glenn…