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Hopping on the Meditation Brandwagon: “Heartfulness” Makes Landfall in Los Angeles

By Anita Little

…ents.” Recent USC graduate Ade Mos already meditates but was looking for a new practice. “It really did stir up a lot of new perspectives on the art of living. I was searching for insights that were profound and novel.” As anyone who’s spent considerable time in Los Angeles could attest to, there’s a palpable sense of “searching” here. The young and the unaffiliated—transplants and natives alike—are unmoored and perpetually sniffing out the next b…

Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…blishment clause restriction. For example, in 2011, Dr. Glenn Mendoza sued New York’s Good Samaritan Hospital for religious discrimination against him as a practitioner of Arhatic Yoga, Pranic Healing, and Superbrain Yoga. In this context, Mendoza described yoga as “devoted spiritual practice rooted in religion and ancient spiritual teachings of meditation . . . no different than being Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Muslim.” In 2012, Mendoza…

Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

…ciating these ideas with the Mark of the Beast. The video was produced by Tru*]}*News, an outlet run by Rick Wiles who, one RD contributor recently wrote, has a “solid record of antisemitism, racism, and homophobia,” in his piece on the outlet having several times received press credentials from the Trump administration. A similar video posted on March 29, 2020 [and since removed from YouTube — ed], has nearly a million and a half views in mid-April.…

The True Meaning of ‘Law and Order’ Became Painfully Clear on January 6

By Jemar Tisby

…of violence to its Washington office, a warning that was, according to the New York Times “passed on to other law enforcement agencies… [though] it was not clear which agencies received it.” How could the authorities not have known? Five people have died as a result of the mayhem at the Capitol. So far police have charged about seventy people, mostly for violating curfew and for illegal entry. As many have noted, on social media and elsewhere, thi…

The Religious Reason Many Americans Refuse to Wear Masks

By Kate Blanchard

…rs. It’s a way of proving their faith in the President, his power, and his worldview. In rural Michigan, where I live, the local Chamber of Commerce proudly posts photographs of businesses where no one is wearing masks. There are rumors of a “Maskless Monday” protest coming up at my son’s high school. A statewide mandate to wear masks in public places has been reason enough for angry citizens and self-appointed, armed militias to show up maskless…

FRC’s Perkins Selling Straight Hot Sex

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ing sex to sell the straight lifestyle. Could the urgency be linked to the new report by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution, which Peter Montgomery wrote about earlier, which reveals that the white evangelical conservative base is shrinking with each successive generation? The report, dubbed the “Economic Values Survey,” uses respondents’ views on everything — from God to the Bible to the role of government in the…

When White Terrorism Goes Unpunished: Trump’s Acquittal and the Persistence of Anti-Blackness

By Peter Laarman and Charlene Sinclair

…led with a willingness to utilize violence to secure white power and white rule. While many commentators have taken note of the Confederate flags and the nooses and the disgusting racist language used by the mob, too few have given sufficient attention to exactly whose votes Trump and his confederates didn’t want cast and didn’t want counted. Apologists for these 43 senators say it’s “just politics” and express relief that the Senate can now move…

‘Murder Among the Mormons’ Ep 1 Recap: A Trio of Bombs Launches SLC into a Panic

By Benjamin E. Park

…er-day Saints, as they celebrated the sesquicentennial and were enjoying a new record for national popularity. Cheesy videos from the LDS Visitors Center highlighted the faith’s devotion to families and traditional morals, an eerie prelude for the grisly events that followed. Though most background information for Hofmann, including his personal history and forgery skills, is saved for a later episode, we’re introduced to Hofmann’s first documents…

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’

By Katherine Stewart

…is a perceived loss of social status. Conspiracy theories are essentially stories “about power: who has it, and who doesn’t.” By constructing fantastical theories that supposedly explain why their believers are being deprived of social status, conspiracists tend to misidentify false targets “as both demonic and a source of pollution, people fit only for elimination.” It’s also well understood that social media has served to amplify the worst of t…

“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local

By Frederick Clarkson

…tion.” The website states, furthermore, that the goal is, “To deliver the truth of God’s Kingdom and unite the Body of Christ with the world at large, [because] we believe we have a mandate to bring Godly change to our world, through the seven spheres of societal influence.” As noted above, to accomplish this, the Truth and Liberty Coalition has held several political training events this year at the small Charis Bible College (which urges student…