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“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…lly—if mindfulness is a watering-down of Buddhism, whether meditation can truly save the world, and why he specializes in teaching rich people. You’re one of the only prominent advocates of secular mindfulness who is not white. What’s that like? Not only am I one of the only non-white people, but I’m one of the very few people who self-identify as Buddhist. Tim Ryan, for example, and Jon Kabat-Zinn—they don’t identify as Buddhist. If you’re white,…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…ence. No one steps into that atmosphere without having a spiritual chord struck. Samba drums inspire dance; the long, narrow vuvuzela horns provoke the possibility of deafness; and waves of people universalize in a moment the personal affection for the game. But there exists a stadium in this tournament that will be remember more for human pride than the beautiful game played within it. Mbombela Stadium (literally meaning “many people together in…

How Mario Cuomo Made the World Safe for Pro-Choice Catholics

By Patricia Miller

…ter Mondale, conservative elements of the Catholic hierarchy, most notably New York Archbishop John O’Connor, started to push back against attempts by Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin to remove abortion as a point of leverage with Catholics for the Republican Party. Bernardin famously asserted that Catholics should consider all “life” issues—abortion, nuclear war, poverty—when considering which candidate to vote for. But at a news conference in J…

Is It the Job of Religion Journalists to Define “Religion”?

By Ann Taves

…fectly reasonable) definition of religion. When Linker asks “why can’t the New York Times’ religion columnist define religion,” the answer I think is three-fold: First, Oppenheimer was writing as a journalist, who covers religion for the NY Times, much as journalists, such as Joe Palca, cover science for NPR. Just as Palca reports on research in the sciences that he finds interesting, so too Oppenheimer in the column in question was reporting on a…

FOX News. Israel. Palestine. What Could Go Wrong?

By Haroon Moghul

…evances.) If we’re so concerned about incitement, and we should be, let us be equally concerned about the conditions that make incitement possible. There are radicals in every place and every time. But they only catch fire in some places and at some times. There are worse folks around the corner. If we don’t offer solutions, then others will. Worse people, with viler agendas. Let us be firefighters, not arsonists. Oh, and a side note: it is possib…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…nor into the legal mind. It might give some indications of how a person structures the world, or of their moral commitments. But as both Barrett and Jackson testified repeatedly, jurists at every level are called upon to set aside their personal beliefs to rule impartially, and they do so. And for all of us, ideals seldom correspond to lived behavior in any completely satisfactory way. Humans are inconsistent creatures, simply put, and we don’t o…

How Ben Carson Uses “Secular Progressives” as a Shield

By Sarah Posner

…ned. “WSJ: More Ben Carson Narratives Can’t Be Confirmed,” reads the sober Newsmax headline. “More stories from Ben Carson’s past that no one can authenticate,” Hot Air reports dispassionately. As Paul Waldman writes in an astute piece at the Washington Post, this scrutiny of the accuracy of Carson’s autobiography tells us little about what kind of president he’d be. But Carson’s wild claims, say, about the purpose of the pyramids, the origins of…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…wish Jenkins had drawn out some of the racial dynamics that lurk in these stories. Bradley Onishi, for example, has pointed out the ways in which a single-minded focus on abortion serves the cause of white Christian privilege. Refusal to accept vaccines derived, however remotely, from fetal cells might be an act of principled opposition, in other words—or it could be a convenient excuse for people who aren’t going to get vaccinated no matter what…

Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’

By Matthew Dodrill

…s apocalyptic incursion births a new Adam. And this cosmic dualism—old age/new age, old Adam/new Adam—gives rise to an ethical dualism. Either we participate in the suffering service of Jesus Christ, our tradition tells us, or we don’t. Either we’ll follow him on the cross, or we won’t. At this juncture of the ages, resurrection life is hidden and revealed in our cruciform service to the least of these, and everything else is in league with Sin an…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…ion, and return to a world where it’s possible to live out what he calls “true Paleo.” Such a world wouldn’t just be better for human carnivores. Considering humanity’s impact on the environment, Eaton argues, it would also be better for the planet. This is Paleo eschatology, essentially—a vision of the world’s final destination, rendered in the language of an idyllic past. Eaton’s vision did not go over especially well with the other participants…