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Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…e, though Hans is particularly attentive about it. It seems kind of like a spiritual practice. A little prayer. It’s very sweet. So, I just kind of like to check that I’m good with Hans at some point in the morning. Also, my niece Jenn is involved in very interesting stuff to do with the de-medicalization of childbirth that I mostly don’t get, but she’s very passionate about it, so I like to see what she’s up to over on the right coast. And, her f…

Better Science Through God?

By Nathan Schneider

…atheism, the often-religionist Protscience guerrillas offer to restore the spirit—and the metaphysics—that gave us science in the first place. Then and now, Fuller contends, God the lawgiver/designer/intervener makes a better mascot for good research than any lack thereof that atheism or agnosticism have to offer. In a revealing “Further Reading” section, he cites the accomplishments of his friends at the ID-friendly Discovery Institute unironical…

Jesus’ Language More Complicated Than Experts Claim

By Seth Sanders

…daism is a “dead” religion serving the “letter of the law,” not its living spirit. This view of Hebrew as confined to the synagogue avoids conclusive evidence for spoken Hebrew in this period, found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Bar Kokhba documents, and early Rabbinic literature. The Jewish scholar Moshe Segal wrote his groundbreaking grammar of Mishnaic Hebrew as a polemic to combat this view, pointing out continuities between late Biblical Hebrew an…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…ch our own identity. We get lazy and, since we live in a technology-driven service economy, we forget the importance of how the humanities and the arts express and define us and our society. Monarchist or Marxist, We Educate in Our Image The humanities don’t make us materially wealthy. They don’t increase our market share or increase the size of our homes. They don’t lower our taxes or pay our medical bills. And so they get pushed aside in our eve…

Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…her in heaven: with his many wives, he not only created but procreated the spirit of every person born physically onto this Earth. Proving oneself worthy of the right to do the same thing in another corner of the universe is, in Mormon belief, the goal and purpose of our mortal existence. The film argues that because gay people cannot procreate on their own, they have no place in the LDS Plan of Salvation, so the church works to deny them and thei…

American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…any more, the audience was told, would be coming from their earlier church services at their regular parishes. Far from the stage, but clearly in view, several vendors set up meat-roasting stands in anticipation of a crowd that might not fully embrace The Call’s advertised proclamation, “Prayer, fasting, and repentance changes nations!” In what amounted to a warm-up prayer, the early arrivals were exhorted to start reaching out to the Lord, and to…

Religious Right Prays To Lift Curse Of Obama, Glenn Beck’s Commencement Speech, And A Cross In The Desert: The Week In Religion, Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…a religious display in a federally owned park was a clear violation of the spirit of the Establishment Clause, and an insult to citizens of all faiths.” Eric Lee Garner was sentenced to 17 months in prison after threatening a Muslim woman and her child with a knife, saying of her head scarf, “You Muslim people scare people when you wear things like that.” A German Muslim group supported the display of crucifixes in public schools. “Religion needs…

The Transfiguration of the Fanboy: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, The Conclusion

By Mark Dery

…n Mick Rock, Blood and Glitter (London, UK: Vision On Publishing, 2001), unnumbered page. [2] Marc Spitz, Bowie: A Biography (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 214. [3] Quoted in Mick Rock, Blood and Glitter (London, UK: Vision On Publishing, 2001), unnumbered page. [4] Ellen Degeneres: Search YouTube. As of this writing, an excerpt from the episode in question could be found here. “Totally credible plastic rock star”: Quoted in the booklet accompanying…

God Grows Up: Robert Wright’s Evolution of God

By Robert Wright

…s. The argument I make in the aforementioned afterword is very much in the spirit of James’s “pragmatic” argument for believing in God. And I agree with James that our ordinary waking consciousness is in some ways arbitrary, and there may be alternative modes of consciousness that get us closer to the truth in certain realms. Six years ago I did a one-week silent meditation retreat and at the end of it my state of mind had been transformed. My per…

Does Evolution Favor Religion?

By Mark Vernon

…t a tribe including many members who, from possession in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection. To put it another way, Darwin questions the exclusively selfish foundations of morality. As he also wrote, “the moral sense is fundamentally i…