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YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…il 15. Like the classic books loved by children of the 1980s and ’90s, the story starts with a disclaimer: “BEWARE and WARNING,” it says. “You and YOU ALONE are in charge of what happens in this story.” And like those classics, the story is built on a key idea of the American mode of spirituality known as “spiritual but not religious.” The Choose Your Own Adventure series that Edward Packard and R.A. Montgomery created in the late 1970s is sometim…

As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

By Katherine Kelaidis

…y thrilled at the prospect of Russian domination, but where there’s deep mistrust of a West that seems completely unaware of the historical memories at play. And Russia has been more than happy to fill the gap. Russian propaganda network RT recently launched a local website and broadcaster in Serbia. Offering a mildly bizarre but strangely predictable explanation for the expansion, RT chief editor Margarita Simonyan tweeted, “We have launched RT i…

UPDATED: Oklahoma Personhood Bill Not Dead…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…not palatable to the groups backing SB-1433. Last night, Personhood USA posted a statement calling it “unforgivable” that Steele had not called for a floor vote on SB-1433 that day—the first day that it would have been up for a floor vote anyway, and for a bill that was already controversial. Meanwhile, representatives from Oklahomans for Life began circulating a discharge petition: a bit of maneuvering which, if signed by enough legislators, wou…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…ear and the utility of that fear for his political agenda. Alongside the history of coexistence is a history of intolerance. From the anti-Irish Catholic Know-Nothing Party, to the Asian Exclusion Act, to the internment of people of Japanese ancestry, this country has vacillated on the razor’s edge. The immigration policies of Donald Trump aim to return us to the darker eras of our history, consequentially erasing the history of vulnerable groups…

Religious Practices on Trial in Arizona: The Problem With “Experts”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…over the nearly score of Duggar children in Arkansas. In following the Ray story over the past few months, I am amazed at the number of non-Indian sweat lodge experts the media has been able to locate. Few Indians if any have been interviewed; and even decidedly liberal MSNBC featured Court TV anchor Ashleigh Banfield as their expert on the sweat lodge. Banfield’s expertise, admitted on air, was one sweat experience with her stepbrother or brother…

New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious to Mental Disorder

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rsity of Texas, Austin) and Meredith Worthen (University of Oklahoma) suggests a number of cautions that might well be applied to studies like that offered by King and colleagues. In their review, Musick and Worthen found no direct causal relationship between religion and health, with service attendance alone showing a meaningful correlation that extends to measured benefits in mortality. Going to church seems to be a good thing healthwise, but it…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…written statements from Bishop Frank Dewane, chairman of Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, a little known backbencher with virtually no profile in the national media. As Michael Sean Winters noted in the National Catholic Reporter: …there was no “postcard campaign” like the bishops launched on previous issues of less significance, no full court press as it were. It is clear that so long as they get rid of the contraception mand…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…tian Right law firm; and the ProFamily Legislative Network, led by the Christian historical revisionist, Dominionist activist, and Republican political operative, David Barton. Texas-based religion scholar David R. Brockman originally described the purpose of the secretive project as “a covert campaign for conservative Christian dominion over law and public policy,” which remains true today. The 2020-2021 playbook offers slicker arguments than pre…

Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?

By Jay Michaelson

…melo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire at full strength, the New York Knicks lost to the Boston Celtics, dropping them to a disappointing 8 wins and 15 losses. Jeremy Lin, a relatively unknown 3rd-string point guard who’d joined the team weeks earlier, took three shots, missed all of them, and ended up with two points in less than seven minutes of play. As of this past Sunday, when they defeated last year’s world champion Dallas Mavericks on the stren…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…ws program. Receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal (PCM) was Colson’s most prestigious comeback award. The man with the checkered resumé was now, in the eyes of his brethren and the Christian press, fully redeemed. What was Colson’s path to redemption? In 1976, shortly after serving time for his involvement in Watergate, Colson became a born-again Christian and founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, a faith-based based “outreach” ministry “to co…