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Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…liation in countries like Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, of course, the opposite is true for the church in the Euro-Atlantic world. Johnson’s disappointment about the future of the Nigerian Church could best be applied to England, where fewer and fewer people attend church and surveys show young people don’t see the need for faith. The European Union’s constitution omits any mention of Christianity, the historic faith of the continent. Yet Europe still cont…

World Vision Rescinds Decision to Employ LGBT Marrieds

By Elizabeth Drescher

…onservative Evangelical Christians. In a statement released yesterday, the World Vision president Richard Stearns followed the well-worn Evangelical tradition and offered a weepy apology to conservatives who were outraged by the earlier decision to allow compassion to trump conservative correctness in its employment policies: We are brokenhearted over the pain and confusion we have caused many of our friends, who saw this decision as a reversal of…

‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

…ce theory, secular humanism, same-sex marriage, vaccine mandates; the fuel running the machine is a belief that this world is split into two “religions”—the “true” one and the “false” one whose aims are unceasingly hostile and evil. Of course, not all evangelicals are young-Earth creationists, nor are all evangelicals opposed to the Covid-19 vaccine. But the logical conclusion of an exclusionary worldview that asserts that all who aren’t for God a…

God Bless Islam with Courageous Leadership

By Ebrahim Moosa

…I testify that all servants of God are one family… Make me and my family truthful to you in every moment of life in this world and the next. Oh powerful and generous one, hear and respond to my prayers… My second prayer is that God bless Islam with a religious leadership that has a modicum of Solomonic wisdom and tons of moral courage. Why these two prayers? I think many Muslims have forgotten the message of humanism and solidarity with all creat…

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…ri Chinmoy Ghose: “When the Power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Trungpa Rinpoche, Ram Das, and Ghose provide a dose of spiritual humanism that bookends a film filled with conspiracy narratives of corruption and manipulation. Christianity, religion, war, economies; these are all meant to divide and conquer humanity, the film argues, and the solution to the suffering they cause lies in a metaphysical vision of univ…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…dowment established this mosque had no children of his own, and saw this structure as his legacy for the world. We’re used to monumentalism in sacred spaces, the deployment of largeness for the purposes of producing epiphanies. There is however a sustained tradition in Islamic aesthetics of smallness cultivating and sustaining piety, incorporating tiny gestures, subtle symmetries, and easily overlooked details, whose full effect is to cause us to…

Dispatches From the Rhodian Shore: A (Tough) Love Letter to Religious Studies

By Todd LeVasseur

…points above, adapting to what appears to be the very real possibility of runaway climate change. This means centering across our discipline and in our departments the natural world. And we must do so in a way that emphasizes justice, racial and otherwise. There are movements within religious studies that point towards helping with such a reorganization. I think here of the religion and nature program at the University of Florida, the only Ph.D….

Pope Francis, the Bouncer

By Anthea Butler

…orming the Curia, and reforming the world are two very different things. (Truthfully, reforming the world might be an easier task.) Righting the Vatican is a enormous task. While Evangelii Gaudium is a good beginning, the more compelling action taken by the Vatican last week was the implementation of a task force for the protection of children. Suggested by the council of eight Cardinals the Pope has appointed, it remains to be seen whether or not…

Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well

By Noah Berlatsky

…Strange. Zero K alternately mocks and hopes for a better, more meaningful world, where limits are conquered and spiritual truths fall gently like clumps of yak hair. And that better, more meaningful world, mocked or hoped for, is couched, again and again, in terms of a half-acknowledged Eastern mysticism. “I recall the taxi driver kneeling in the gutter slime, turned toward Mecca,” Jeffrey muses profoundly, “and I try to reconcile the firm placem…

Did the Dalai Lama Just Call for an End to Religion?

By Richard Schiffman

…e, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.” It is easy to sympathize with the Dalai Lama’s frustration. After millennia of being preached at by priests and prophets, humanity is still addicted to war…