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Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

By Andrew Aghapour

…future of religion. You describe non-believing clergy as “canaries in a coal mine.” Why does this group hold such significance for understanding the future of religion? I think that we are now entering a really disruptive age in the history of human civilization, thanks to the new transparency brought about by social media and the internet. It used to be a lot easier to keep secrets than it is now. In the March issue of Scientific American, Deb R…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…readers with Montgomery’s core belief, illustrating again and again a central value of human agency and responsibility. “It’s finally saying to you, you’re involved,” Montgomery said in one of the few interviews he did on the subject. “What are you doing and why are you making these choices?” Montgomery, who died late last year at his home in Vermont, was largely known for his role in turning the CYOA books into a franchise that eventually extende…

10 Media Rules for Effective Theology

By Cynthia B. Astle

…and dine with dying people who have been beggared because there’s no national health care. We can tell you about building a Habitat for Humanity house for a divorced mother with three children, who had been living in rat-and-roach-infested public housing because there was no decent, low-cost housing available. In other words, we laypeople often embody the divine about which theologians teach. If we are to move from the moment’s charity to a change…

God’s Chosen Tweeters?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…more close relationships than non-SNS users. * Facebook users get more social support than non-SNS users. * Facebook revives “dormant” relationships that are lost to non-SNS users. After a couple years of being derided for their brain-rotted shallowness, it should come as no surprise that in no time at all, my network of witty Facebook and Twitter friends added to the list of laudable social networking aficionado qualities: * We floss after every…

Like the Bible? You’ll Love a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ T-shirt — How AI Marketing Shapes Identity

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…or, he said, curated by our demographics. Can we look into this computational mirror to say “beware” or “behold,” assuming that the algorithm knows us better than we know ourselves? Indeed, “Let’s Go Brandon,” as noted above, is a popular rallying cry for Trump supporters, and White evangelicals did make up a substantial portion of Trump supporters in both 2016 and 2020. The advertising algorithm may well have been effective in targeting the appro…

The New Christianity: What the Mainstream Media Has Missed

By Bill Berkowitz

…elf and repudiate Hagee’s endorsement. Hagee slunk off the national stage. Flash forward to September of last year. McCain (now the GOP’s presidential candidate) chooses a relatively obscure political figure, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, as his running mate. When a CNN reporter asked a GOP campaign spokesperson about Palin’s religious beliefs, she would only say that “the Republican vice presidential candidate has ‘deep religious convictions.’” Wi…

Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

Within the last day, the Washington Post, Reuters, and religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune have all addressed the growing incidence of disaffiliation among LDS Church members for whom the digital age has brought new access to conflicting perspectives on Mormon history and doctrine—scrutiny that is certain to intensify if Romney gets the GOP nomination. It’s not uncommon for LDS people to grow up in contexts where most…

Looking For Answers at the Oscars: A Guide to This Year’s Contenders

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…hrough rites of passage. These are peculiar rites to be sure, even as they mimic broad structures of separation, transition, and reincorporation found in initiation rites the world over. From Face-to-Face to Interface Reviewing the film in the New York Times, Manohla Dargis tells us, “instead of discovering his authentic self, Mark builds a database, turning his life—and ours—into zeroes and ones, which is what makes it also a story about the huma…

Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…e fundamentally different; they need only be suggested or imagined in virtual reality for the consequences to appear in real time. Jewish tradition has it that Rabbi Haninah Ben Teradion was burned at the stake with the Torah scroll underneath him for defying the Roman decree against teaching the Torah. As the scroll was burning, he said, “I see the scrolls burning but the letters fly up in the air.” Most interpreters over the centuries, both reli…

Losing Old Gods, Finding Nature

By Bron Taylor

…tal movements, and whether and to what extent religious perceptions and moral values motivates their participants. When working on an earlier book, Ecological Resistance Movements, I began to see that ideas that found fertile ground within grassroots environmental movements around the world were becoming increasingly influential. As I traveled around the world in the subsequent years, I encountered a fascinating and diverse set of examples that co…