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Pastor Has Novel Response: Read the Qur’an Day

By Lauri Lebo

…a, recently proposed an alternative: the best way to protest what the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, is planning is to read the Qur’an. This seems an appropriate way to not interfere with the free speech of others, and yet use our own freedom to express our dismay at those who use their freedom to express intolerance and to attempt to provoke others to violence and conflict. For those who wish to read the Qur’an online, here i…

Attraction to Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Can Be Traced to the Christian Apocalyptic Imagination

By Aaron Ricker

…n respondents believe at least one conspiracy theory about Covid-19: the virus was spread to the West on purpose, it’s a cover story for the putative baleful effects of 5G wireless technology, etc. This epistemologically and epidemiologically disastrous phenomenon has a dimension that most people would call “political.” The poll numbers just cited above rise to 1 in 4 on “the right,” among people who identify as “conservative Republicans.” In Cana…

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From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America

By Susannah Crockford

…eoliberalism is ending—when the Republicans have been fully taken over by Trumpist rule-by-conspiracy-theory, and the Democrats have Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr as candidates who appeal to the conspiracy theory/new age spirituality segment of their voters. Bowman’s book reveals the roots of this reformulation of power relations in America which is rewiring the basic functioning of democracy. A new power and place in the universe B…

What’s Truth? Scientific Method Under the Microscope

By Arri Eisen

…onflicts of interest, especially in the case of clinical trials, which are run and supported by the companies that fund the development of the very drugs being tested and stand to make the profits from them, have long been known to be a serious bias-producer. Other strong belief systems and approaches within science also may help explain the decline effect. There are statistical effects (anomalous events happen, and only after the experiment has b…

Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ion to build a Kahlil Gibran memorial in Washington, D.C. George H.W. Bush read at the dedication ceremony in May 1991. Earlier that year, in March, when Barbara Walters televised tour of General “Stormin’” Norman Schwarzkopf’s Gulf-War bunker, a copy of The Prophet was proudly displayed on his camouflaged nightstand. Apparently it was good PR to be shown with a book by an Arab writer. Which brings us back to Salma Hayek. Although we think of her…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…esolve to press forward.” The conservative media machine, from Live Action News, to Newsbusters, to Free Republic, ran with Mason’s story of being attacked by violent pro-choice advocates, pushing the narrative that violent assaults against pro-life Americans are on the rise. The Daily Beast reacted on the day of the press release by publishing its third story on the Masons in the space of a week, complete with the same home vandalism photos the a…

A Report from America’s “Sacrifice Zones”

By Chris Hedges

…fe and Fate, The Brothers Karmazov, Bleak House, they are all books I have read and re-read. What’s your next book? I will do a book on the consequences of political paralysis, the empowerment of extremes, the way a dysfunctional society produces and empowers the extremes, but this is not yet an idea that has solidified. The ideas always come first, then you figure out how to make them coherent on the page. I know I will do reporting as I love…

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…ta, described it, is: “ubiquitous, calling us to be true to ourselves and true to the world, real in ourselves and real in the world, When authenticity is acknowledged, we admit our foibles, mistakes and protected secrets, the parts of ourselves and society that are fearful and hide in the shadows of existence.” The “Innocence + Experience” tour, now in its third week, hums with authenticity. U2’s two-hour performances in venues no larger than 20,…

A Reader Writes: I’m Not Personally LGBTQ Affirming, But I Recognize That Difference is Good — So Can’t We Coexist Amicably?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ations, but committed fundamentalist Christians. You don’t have to take my word for that, either. If you like, you can read my interview with the Syracuse, New York-based street preacher Jim Deferio, whose hate-fueled exploits you can corroborate via a web search for further sources. Be warned, however, that the interview makes for disturbing reading. There is also further documentation of the street preaching phenomenon available on my website. I…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rom our own, not because Paul was ignorant or wrong, but because the widespread ancient understanding of same-sex behavior was very different from what we see today. In a nutshell, Paul in Romans 1 is condemning excess passion, and for Paul same-sex relations are merely a symbol of passion gone amok and of people who cannot control themselves—as with other vices of excess like gluttony or drunkenness. Anybody could be prone to act out in this way…