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This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…the eucharist.” He is letting the eucharist be a modeling of how you construe the world as a neighborhood. But then the eucharist has to be rescued from a privatized sin/salvation theology, where I think most people understand it. Dan: That theme is still present even in the Episcopal church, the Anglican tradition, though they have some wonderful models that come out of New Zealand of how that’s a public, communal celebration. Walter: There’s a…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…lly—if mindfulness is a watering-down of Buddhism, whether meditation can truly save the world, and why he specializes in teaching rich people. You’re one of the only prominent advocates of secular mindfulness who is not white. What’s that like? Not only am I one of the only non-white people, but I’m one of the very few people who self-identify as Buddhist. Tim Ryan, for example, and Jon Kabat-Zinn—they don’t identify as Buddhist. If you’re white,…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…s it leads, does suggest some degree of culpability. A brief glance across news shows and sites suggests that hate stories—not just hate crimes, a relatively new legal designation, but also stories that focus on conflict and hostility based on passionate dislike for the other—are staples in news media. Additionally and beyond the news, so much of popular culture is fueled by depictions of hate and difference overcome by cruel violence. Whether it’…

Creating a Cell: Science Plays God

By Arri Eisen

…e of one of this summer’s hottest science papers, it drew me up short. The word itself comes from the Latin for ‘bringing forth into being,’ which already sounds pretty deep. But then it also has the meaning ‘that which God has created, the world and all in it’—and we’re clearly into the realm of the religious. ‘Creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome’ is the title of the paper. It was published in the prestigiou…

#PrayForBoston: Prayer as a Meme

By Elizabeth Drescher

…he motivator for intercessory prayer to a supreme being or power. No other word in English, so far as I know, marks that register as does the word “prayer.” Marks it, I suppose, and moves on to the next new thing in the digitally-integrated world, rather than calling for the physical, spiritual, and relational action that traditionally completes the practice itself. We might conclude, then, that the prayer meme has cheapened an ancient, arguably v…

Participant Discredits the Original Ex-Gay Study

By Warren Throckmorton

…aders, Bussee and his Melodyland colleague Gary Cooper helped found Exodus International, an evangelical ex-gay organization. However, they eventually came out of the closet, left their wives and became partners, thereby leaving ex-gay ministry in 1979. Cooper died in 1991 and Bussee has remained a critic of change efforts. The Pattison study included a table describing their interview findings with the 11 subjects (from page 1555, see below). Bus…

The Great Disappointment: When the World Fails to End on Schedule

By Randall Balmer

…Sixth Street Bridge in Pittsburgh to await their translation into heaven. Russell later denied being there; Pittsburgh newspapers insisted otherwise. He claimed in retrospect that 1874 had been the moment of Christ’s “invisible return.” His movement was called the International Bible Students Association, later renamed the Jehovah’s Witnesses. But the most famous end-of-the-world prediction, and the one which closely parallels Camping’s predictio…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…nor into the legal mind. It might give some indications of how a person structures the world, or of their moral commitments. But as both Barrett and Jackson testified repeatedly, jurists at every level are called upon to set aside their personal beliefs to rule impartially, and they do so. And for all of us, ideals seldom correspond to lived behavior in any completely satisfactory way. Humans are inconsistent creatures, simply put, and we don’t o…

FOX News. Israel. Palestine. What Could Go Wrong?

By Haroon Moghul

…e the current conflict become an existential battle to the end between the world’s Jews and Muslims, but that’s what happens when we start accusing our opponents of being inspired by and led by their most closely held beliefs. Negotiations have failed before, but we shouldn’t confuse the current quiet for an actual solution. My fear is a civil conflict, a civil war, between Israelis and Palestinians, which will quickly draw in extremist groups. To…

Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’

By Matthew Dodrill

…an American aberration, but a particular iteration of empire’s loathsome cruelty. Indeed, “Trumpism” is not a phenomenon unto itself, nor is it merely a symptom of party ideology, cultural polarization, or the implosion of establishment politics. Rather, it’s an extraction of a deep-seated desire that has been at the core of the American experiment all along—namely, the mastery of black, brown, and indigenous bodies. This quest for mastery is oft…