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The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…istake of saying, in effect, that while what Susan had said may be partly true or even plain true, she would still have been much better advised not to say it. I think she herself may have feared that she was somehow “objectively” helping Ronald Reagan. But whether her mind changed her, or she changed her mind, she manifested the older truth that all riveters of the mind-forged manacles most fear, and that I here repeat: One cannot be just a littl…

A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…, noticing the dramatic, drumroll sounds that preceded the announcement of breaking news, and hearing Wolf Blitzer say, “And CNN can now project that Barack Obama, 47 years old, will become the President-Elect of the United States…” I read on the screen “Barack Obama Elected President” and felt the pandemonium of celebration around me. The palpable energy that had until that moment felt like an undercurrent became a gushing waterfall, some of whic…

Is the Internet the End of Religion?

By Andrew Aghapour

…fied singing and chanting is an evolved trick for keeping religious texts alive. The idea here is that in order to stay alive, religions need to continuously replicate themselves. Where biological species accomplish this through sexual reproduction, cultural species like religions reproduce through chanting and song. What are some other evolutionary tricks, Dawkins asks? Promises of an afterlife! Dennett also maintains that religions are “design…

Like “The Bachelor,” But for Jesus: “The Sisterhood” Episode 1 Recap

By Jo Piazza

…air straighteners. Some don’t. It’s a non-issue. They are modest, but they live in the modern world. REALITY: Nuns can’t wear regular clothes. The sisters we see in “The Sisterhood” are Carmelites who still embrace the traditional habit. I imagine this was specifically chosen for dramatic effect since seeing nuns in street clothes (chinos and sensible shoes), doesn’t make for great television. But in reality most nuns don’t wear the habit any more…

Toward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren

By Peter Laarman

…bother you? They sure would have bothered me. I decided I wasn’t going to read them. My wife did read them and called me in tears over the way people attacked our son and family. (She’s used to the attacks on me.) I must say that I have gotten a great many private messages from leading evangelical and even charismatic leaders who want me to know that they do not endorse or share the venom expressed in the published comments. Many progressive Chri…

Can We Ask Mitt About Mormonism’s Racist Past?

By Darron T. Smith

…can Americans had been banned from the priesthood because they weren’t yet ready for it, brought unsolicited attention to the LDS faith’s racist past, causing a swift reaction from Church headquarters. But despite the Church’s rejection of Bott’s comments, it missed an opportunity to make an undisputed and official apology for its past. These are serious issues about which Romney has remained remarkably silent, neither breaking free from his reli…

Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?

By Eric C. Miller

…uld never change the fact that it was the Catholic Church’s apostasy from true Christianity that had ultimately led to the need for Joseph Smith’s restoration of the true church. Evangelicals were far more critical of Vatican II’s reforms. In keeping with their longstanding attacks on Catholicism, evangelicals largely saw Vatican II as part of the Catholic Church’s plans to monopolize Christianity and make all Christians submit to Rome. However, e…

“Let’s Get in Formation”: Beyoncé’s Spiritual Call for Black Resistance

By Yazmine Nichols

…nsgresses boundaries. Black women gyrate in what looks like a “big house,” breaking the rules in “Massa’s” quarters and desecrating white-designated spaces. Similarly, Beyoncé herself desecrates pop culture. She takes the colloquial term “slay” and turns it into an anthem of resistance. To “slay” means to dance, it means to live, it means getting in formation and surviving. It means having “negro noses with Jackson Five nostrils,” it means eating…

Open Carry Racism: The Right Wing Fever Dream that Predates Trump

By Jason C. Bivins

…lity, incompetence, and pathological narcissism, however, remains. And the world lives in the Trump era’s bubble of strangely dilated time: everything agonizingly slow—and bewilderingly fast. But for all the post-mortems on the 2016 election, for every Hillbilly Elegy that says to white rage “I feel your pain,” or every column wondering how evangelicals can tolerate Stormy Daniels, there’s a larger diagnosis that Americans need to undertake. A fra…

There are Nonproductive Ways of Listening to Each Other: Deborah Jian Lee on the New Era

By The Editors

…) Debbie answered the same question posed to all of Kaleidoscope’s guests (read the other responses here): What is one of the biggest transformations that has occurred for you in this new era? A common refrain I keep hearing in this new era is that we need to listen to each other, that we need to hear out “the other side.” As someone who straddles multiple cultures and worlds, it’s something I’ve done for a long while, and I’ve learned, especially…