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On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…Physicsworld.com user asks, “What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?” Where infinity merges with the earth When you dig into pi, you encounter questions that are as much theological as mathematical: is there a pattern to the universe? Or is it fundamentally random? And how do we reckon with the infinite? Some people have always insisted that there must be a pattern behind pi. If only h…

Is Pope Francis Yogaphobic?

By Andrea R. Jain

…angels” by distorting the words of Francis: Pope Francis said ‘do not seek spiritual answers in yoga classes’. Yoga is certainly a risk. There’s the spiritual health risk. When you take up those practices from other cultures, which are outside our Christian domain, you don’t know what you are opening yourself up to. The bad spirit can be communicated in a variety of ways. I’m not saying everyone gets it, or that it happens every time, and people m…

Lying about Santa: The Irrelevance of Proof to the Holiday Spirit

By Nathan Schneider

…n a neighborhood bar. But there it is: anything to get us into the holiday spirit. Soon it became evident that none of the other young Brooklynites around me (who were, informal polling later on revealed, entirely childless and, it was safe for the lecturer to assume, mostly godless as well) came for hard-hitting proof. When the promised proof never actually appeared, the crowd, as Cahn might have predicted, didn’t seem to mind. Baby Jesus’ Materi…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…rocess their discriminatory work permits. These “guest” workers, who today number between 250,000 and 400,000 (half of whom are illegal) did not only toil. They fell in love and established families and had children, probably more than 2,000 children, who were sent to state-run schools like Tel Aviv’s Bialik-Rogozin to learn with young Israelis their age to read, to write and to add and subtract—in Hebrew. They also were taught about the miraculou…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

…ag in front of me on the floor. Ms. Niqabi nudges me and signals my bag. I wait until we prostrate then switch it off while still in the bag. Phew! Minimal damage, I hope. No chance. Ms. Niqabi asks me first do I speak Arabic. Then, noticing my nametag, she asks do I speak English. No friendly greeting seems eminent. I said, “Yes, I speak English.” She asks if my cell phone ring has music on it, then she informs me that it is haram to bring music…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…m, I asked him about all those group-builders; did he get that a lot? The “spiritual entrepreneurs,” he said, are indeed “pretty typical,” for this tour. So many people at the Experience, in fact, had announced that they came from out of town with their own spiritual entrepreneurship project, that someone asked us all to raise our hands if we were actually from Durham, so that she could see if there were enough people to start to build a group wit…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…miracle/God is a place where some holy spectacle lies/When we break we’ll wait for our miracle/God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life,” or declarative introductions like, “I love you Jesus Christ/Jesus Christ, I love you, yes I do.” Sufjan Stevens’ religious overtones have often been similarly washed from the critical record. A 2004 Pitchfork review of Stevens’ most explicitly Christian album, Seven Swans, claims, “On songs like ‘…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…ad other bisexual, transgender, lesbian and gay youth lost to suicide, the waiting game hasn’t worked so well. As simply as I can state the matter: The longer we wait to respond, the more young people die. If this were a hostage situation, we would have dispatched the SWAT team by now. And in many ways, it is. Our children and teenagers are being held hostage by a religious and political rhetoric that strives to maintain the status quo of anti-gay…

The Theological Hijacking of Religious “Freedom”

By Timothy K. Snyder

…hy he supported the law, the minister responded: I, as a pastor, provide a service to my parishioners, but also to the community at large in officiating weddings. I receive compensation for these services as well as the state issues a marriage license after I officiate a wedding. So if I say no to a same-sex couple or there are issues of divorce in someone’s past that I will not do the wedding, some people are going to say that’s discrimination. B…

LDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19

By Joanna Brooks

…ole as public representatives of the faith on a global stage, Mormon women waited. At age 21, when they finally became eligible for service, many women found themselves married, or deeply absorbed in the wait for a proper Mormon spouse, or in the final months of their college education and beginning their careers. Lowering the age for women to 19 substantially levels expectations and equalizes life narratives for young men and young women, communi…