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I May Disagree with You, but I’m Pretty Sure You’re not Satan

By Joanna Brooks

…e Tea Party affiliated-folks seem to share is a religious rhetoric (if not worldview) animated by crisis. As in crisis conversion. Spiritual warfare. End-times. Push the reset button. Start over. What the moderates seem to share is a religious worldview shaped by an understanding of what it means to belong to a tradition with a long and complicated history. No fresh starts. No easy answers. A few deeply reassuring rituals. And an ongoing conversat…

Are Scientists Ethical?

By Arri Eisen

…porting unethical ones. Perhaps it was this established educational infrastructure that allowed the Hauser situation to be addressed now rather than having its ethical cracks spread even further (a circumstance that happens much more often in science than we like to admit). A much more positive and exciting side of 21st century blares out in the lead article in today’s New York Times: “Rare Sharing of Data Led to Results in Alzheimer’s: Collaborat…

Glenn Beck Takes on Liberation Theology

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…me in. They appeal to all of those unconscious fears that we have and they run the spectrum. Racism is always just a general subcategory of playing on that fear. Glenn Beck obviously has a large following, many of which may be the very poor and oppressed that liberation theology seeks to speak to. In what ways might progressive Christianity seek these other directions? My guess is that the people who are most attracted to the perspective that he o…

Chicken or Egg? Now We Know…

By Lauri Lebo

…protein is responsible for creating the shell. So, it’s not all that groundbreaking, despite the breathless claims of the news stories. As a matter of fact, the evidence remains quite clear on this one. Chickens, as did all birds, evolved from dinosaurs. Dinosaurs laid eggs. Ergo, the egg came before the chicken. But why such defensiveness from folks like Myers? I mean, yes, it’s kind of a lame story. But it’s summer. It’s hot. And all that scienc…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…the Guardian, they wonder if inmates should get religion in prison and the American Association for the Advancement of Science tries to help scientists get religion (or is it get scientists with religion?). In California, the budget woes are bridging religious difference. Leaders from 10 different faiths joined together to ask for divine intervention in the budget crisis. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Dodgers are relying on ‘V energy’ to try and make…

Meet The Liberal Tea Partiers

By Abby Scher

…frequent government scandals leave many assuming that the government is corrupt and inefficient and that any tax increases would be squandered. “It is a hard struggle. We talk to small groups at churches and civic clubs and other places just trying to get the word out and explain what the actual facts of the matter are,” he said. “Obviously we don’t have any money for media and those sorts of communication avenues so we have to do it one on one, a…

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…rals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game.” If such headlines are true, which suggest that religious liberals themselves have contributed to their own lack of political efficacy in the public square, part of conservatism’s recent ascendancy can be explained by way of the religious left’s self-imposed ban from the public square. Far from being an aberration, recent conservative victories on the legislative level speak to an o…

Atheist Islamophobia… Again

By Kate Blanchard

…t than religion per se.” Dogmatists “are poor listeners” who “pound their drums so hard that they can’t hear one another.” He surmises that their primary motivation is not to discover the truth but rather to show off, “the way male birds gather… to display splendid plumage for visiting females.” De Waal accuses the new atheists of going after Islam simply because it is “low-hanging fruit” in Western contexts: “Throw in a few pictures of burqas, me…

New Report: More Sex in the Pulpit

By Jeanne Carstensen

…tion. The Institute’s Rachel Sabbath campaign to reduce maternal mortality worldwide is drawing a broad spectrum of support. But the road to consensus on other sexual justice issues, including reproductive rights, will be longer. While conservative clergy and politicians dig their heels in on birth control and abortion rights, it’s young women, and the poor, who suffer the most when they are denied safe, affordable methods to prevent unwanted preg…

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…n and its relationship to the broader effort to decriminalize psychedelic drugs, consider that in 1978, Dr. Carl Ruck, Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, sought to distinguish the religious from the recreational use of psychedelics. Psychedelic drugs became associated with what many perceived as the adolescent rebellion of the 1960s and early ‘70s counterculture. The federal government criminalized the use, possession, sale, and…