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Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015

By Andrew Aghapour

…slopes upward toward the North Pole, where a small gas jet powers an Eternal Gospel Flame.” [Inside Climate News] On the lighter side of the end times is Zoltan Istvan’s curious but compelling think piece that asks, “When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?” (Bonus: my interview with Istvan, during which the presidential hopeful is pressed on whether Transhumanism is itself a religious movement.) [Gizmodo] Convergence…

Does Hitchens Have a Prayer?

By Garret Keizer

…itchens’s conversion, though I assume anyone so inclined has been doing so all along. What should a diagnosis of cancer have to do with it? I imagine others will consider withholding their prayers out of an overdeveloped sense of respect. Hitchens would not want us to pray for him; therefore we should not. These are the same people who would hesitate to coax a despairing teenage girl in from an eight-story ledge for fear of disrespecting her decis…

Mormon Feminism is Back

By Joanna Brooks

…he institutional church. They ask, why is the operational chain of command all male? What if women were systematically included in shaping Church operations like curriculum development, finances, even the keeping of membership records? What if our Church worked more like our actual Mormon homes and families do—where there is partnership and responsibility-sharing? Like all social movements, Mormon feminism has experienced cycles of growth and retr…

Kanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching

By Josef Sorett

…three easy payments, order tonight… … I know I’m spiritual I need a financial miracle Please God, you’re the king imperial And I’ll take the bible literal… …On TV, I’ve seen it They sell forgiveness, how convenient Master, Visa, the shit’s ingenious Why go to church, stay home with Jesus… …I’m talking about televangelists, need to be sued for spiritual damages… …And I don’t know what right is, And I ain’t all self-righteous I just want to know wha…

We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree

By Thomas Lecaque

…rees. The former President keeps talking about retaliatory violence and criminal prosecutions. He’s made it clear that he wants to prosecute President Biden and his family when he takes office, declaring that he would lock up a variety of his political enemies. And political violence continues to be on the rise in America, including threats against senators and other public officials, the QAnon-linked attacker of Nancy Pelosi’s husband (in a faile…

South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Called “Raghead”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It’s like local political version of ‘Saturday Night Live.’ “Since my intended humorous context was lost in translation, I apologize. I still believe Ms. Haley is pretending to be someone she is not, much as Obama did, but I apologize to both for an unintended slur.” But, as the Free Times reports, Knotts wasn’t quite as repentant in the moments after uttering his slur. With a bead of s…

Who Cares about what Augustine had to Say about Akin and Rape?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…in a non-shouty fashion. The notion that people can still get excited by talking about Augustine and/or early modern notions of sexual difference, to say nothing of the evidence that the internet can foster really high-level discussion… well, it did this theology teacher/blogger’s heart good. And possibly in the nick of time. Thanks. …

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…Meyer with images of his deceased six-year-old daughter, his complaints of algorithmic cruelty went viral. Other users related similar experiences. Indeed, researchers have begun to ask whether the vast storage capacity of networked technologies threaten to send us unsuspectingly into a tailspin of regret similar to that suffered by old man Krapp. Life-logging devices like Autographer, Memoto, and SixthSense aim to capture every waking moment. Goo…

Does God Hate the Terminally Ill Fred Phelps?

By Alana Massey

…knows that loving one’s enemies is a Christian mandate. It’s an aspirational value to be sure, but it’s one that believers and non-believers alike can aspire to if they seek to end cycles of hatred. Yes, Fred Phelps, Sr. caused untold misery for his family and the groups he targeted. The world might indeed be a better place without him. But the challenge for people committed to loving all people is to see the brokenness —and for those so inclined…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…en far less frequent and considerably less public. But contemporary political alliance is only half of the answer, perhaps not even the most important half. The white nationalist movement is invested in a very specific historical narrative. Within this narrative, Western civilization has been felled by attack from without and decay from within. The only hope for its continued survival is a stubborn insistence on resistance, a hunkering down behind…