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The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…human mind to discern whether a certain document or fact had potential relevance to the case at hand. Today, “e-Discovery” software can analyze millions of electronic documents and isolate the relevant ones. They go beyond mere keyword searches, using machine learning to isolate concepts, even if specific phrases aren’t present. Androids can’t replace pharmacists on their own, but pharmacists can be replaced by a complex automated system like the…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…al is a ritualized event. It happens with some regularity. You go to a revival meeting and the point of a revival is stir up individuals so they have some sort of new encounter with God; be it to be born again or baptized in the Holy Spirit. An awakening is not a revival. An awakening is not an individual or ritualized event, but a larger cultural event where the whole of a society or group of people become changed, transformed, reoriented toward…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…to say even about the five newspapers that I do cover in my book. But the vast number of people and papers that I wasn’t able to concentrate on in the book just underscores how much work there is left to do on the black press. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? Outside of a small group of specialists in early African-American print culture, most people that I’ve talked to about my subject are surprised to learn that bla…

Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

By Patricia Miller

…can toughen-up his Catholicism—particularly his moderate stance on immigration and his rhetoric on religious liberty—enough to attract both Evangelicals and increasingly evangelical-like Catholics?…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…r movement? The Black Lives Matter movement as I have experienced it has a number of queer black women on the ground doing the work. It also has trans women and trans men on the ground doing the work. They are part of the leadership. As you know the Black Lives Matter movement is a “leaderful” movement, and that is to say that not one or two persons are in charge of any action but that the movement itself very beautifully recognizes and utilizes t…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…eported deaths. A Muslim leader in Sri Lanka informed the authors that the number is actually higher, and that 82 Muslims have died, with over 70 cremations. The cremation of the victims was carried out by the state without the approval of the families. When Muslim and Christian families of cremated victims brought their case to the Supreme Court, the court refused to hear the case. In protest, Muslim families have started to refuse the remains of…

For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…Once that’s finished, one of two things can happen. If you are of the Theravada school you are extinguished like a blown-out candle, entering nirvana and leaving forever the cycle of life, which is suffering. If you are of the Mahayana school you have the option of returning to the earth as a Bodhisattva to help other sentient creatures (including the polar bears, kiwi birds, and blobfish) reach nirvana themselves. All of this is highly unappealin…

Data-Mining Denominations: Same-Sex Marriage Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…ad there is between different traditions, all the way from 12 percent approval among Jehovah’s Witnesses to 94 percent support in the admittedly small Unitarian-Universalist sample. If you’re curious, the “pro” traditions outweigh the “con,” 23068 to 12530. The “Nones” are both big and supportive of marriage equality. The second chart shows where people are by intensity, measured with the simple hack of subtracting the number of people Strongly Op…

The Family Research Council’s Mistaken Identity

By Sarah Posner

…the radical far right, described in the FBI’s Project Megiddo report as “a vast number and variety of groups, such as survivalists, militias, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, Christian Identity churches, the AN and skinheads.” The report called Christian Identity “the most unifying theology for a number of these diverse groups and one widely adhered to by white supremacists. It is a belief system that provides its members with a religious basis for ra…

Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

By Rebecca Moore

…been acquired, and dress rehearsals occurred, all with the complicity of a number of individuals. Unfortunately that cohort included my older sister Carolyn Layton and my younger sister Annie Moore (both of whom died in Jonestown). But quite a few others were part of the conspiracy as well, including the team of young men from Jonestown who ambushed Congressman Ryan and his party as they attempted to leave. Knowing the identities of the conspirato…