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When Are You Dead? Science Just Made the Work of Religion a Bit More Difficult

By Arri Eisen

…inking-space am I living?). As is often the case, in the scientific paper explaining this new MRI-thinking, most of these issues are either ignored or barely brushed up against (although, to the journal’s credit, the article is accompanied by an editorial that begins to explore some of these issues). But you can get an idea of the complexity of this research’s ethical implications from the reactions of students in two very different courses I happ…

Faith for Fuck-Ups? A New Book Explores a Broader Vision for Christianity

By Jason J. Stellman

…In his new book, Jason Stellman, the cohost of the popular podcast, Drunk Ex-Pastors, explores a vision for a wider interpretation of Christianity and why “failing at faith” can be an “ironic success” in an unpredictable world. What inspired you to write Misfit Faith? Believe it or not, Misfit Faith is a completely different book from the one I was originally contracted to write. The initial plan was to write a book that sought to argue for and ju…

Resisting the “New Normal” of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative

By Peter Laarman

…ding with our tax dollars. Wall Street is on track for record profits and executive payouts this year. After reaping our taxpayer billions, the banks still have not been required to modify troubled mortgages or to start loaning to small business in any serious way: they are making their money the old-fashioned way—through usury and speculation. And they are very close to persuading a Democratic Congress to grant them even less transparency and eve…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…ve to deal with the world as we find it,” said Obama’s top adviser, David Axelrod, explaining that given GOP control of the House there would be no way to maintain the tax cuts for the middle-class without keeping those for the wealthiest. To mark this latest capitulation framed as a compromise, a letter to the Washingtonians… To the moderate political classes, religious leaders, and activists who are tempted after the Republican gains in the 2010…

Homosexual Thoughts and Feelings Not a Sin, Says New LDS Handbook

By Joanna Brooks

…behavior can be forgiven through sincere repentance. If members have homosexual thoughts or feelings or engage in homosexual behavior, Church leaders should help them have a clear understanding of faith in Jesus Christ, the process of repentance, and the purpose of life on earth. Leaders also should help them accept responsibility for their thoughts and actions and apply gospel principles in their lives. While opposing homosexual behavior, the Chu…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…as homosexual; choose cohabitation; be unfaithful to partners; contract sexually transmitted diseases; be sexually molested; have lower income levels; drink to get drunk; and smoke tobacco and marijuana.” Sounds horrifying, right? And this study is the “gold standard” because, “All the other studies that have come out on how kids do in same-sex homes are all done by lesbian activist scholars,” according to Focus’ Glenn Stanton. He’s obviously ref…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…el Hill. A good Northeastern liberal, I’d read the warning articles in The New Republic before I went, and I knew the Tea Party had taken over the state, but I could not have imagined something like the “bathroom bill,” or HB2. When I sat in Bell’s audience in Durham in March, the fallout from the state’s recent anti-LGBT legislation was just beginning. Still, I kept waiting for someone in the audience to ask: what do we do if it’s not our church…

New Pope Accused of Conspiring in Kidnapping

By Nicole Greenfield

…. You are the dictatorship!)—today became—“Bergoglio. Basura. Vos sos la dictadura.” Habemus Papam Franciscum! Check back (or sign up for the newsletter) for a more detailed profile of the new pope. …

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…rd look at what is, and what could be, in terms of Jewish thinking about sex and sexuality. In order to do this, I needed people who absolutely knew their stuff, who could bring out the big guns both in terms of Jewish text and tradition, but also in terms of innovative thinking about gender, sex, and sexuality, who could marry a number of different lenses to create something new. It’s not a strictly academic work by any means; it’s meant to be ac…

Size Matters According to New Study

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…relation. And such relations involve being seen: the altogether singular experience of looking at another being who is looking at you simultaneously. Seeing and being seen is the very essence of love. And of scientific study. But there is nothing loving in this study of the born-again brain. And let’s be very clear: the unstated motivation for much of this new science is the desire to unseat a certain sort of religion by making it seem stupid….