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Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse

By Michael Schulson

…r has that kind of thriller-movie series of events This new version of end-times thinking is different in kind than this millennia-worth of end-times thinking, because it’s scientific. It’s based on evidence. These are scenarios that can genuinely come true, although some of them are without a doubt quite speculative at the moment. That’s true. Some are more far-fetched. Even if there’s a slight possibility that there might be something like some…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…or moving to citizenship are much more onerous and would take a lot longer time. The Dream Act itself says that you have to be a dreamer for at least eight years, this conditional period, before you can apply for permanent residence. The minimum after permanent residence is five years to citizenship. It’s a long, arduous process with either bill, but the Republicans’ would take even longer. One difficulty many who support immigration reform feel i…

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Can Rage Fuel the Struggle for Justice? A Roundtable

By Religion Dispatches

…rk exploring ethnic and cultural pluralism, and co-winner of the award for best book on race and ethnic politics. Myisha Cherry: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, Myisha is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (…

Mitt Romney, Frontrunner: Deal With It

By Joanna Brooks

…GOP donors, operatives, and the media continue to flirt with fantasy candidates, including Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman, who will announce his presidential bid June 21 at the Statue of Liberty. Just like Ronald Reagan did once upon a time. If a viable candidate is to hang on and emerge from this mess in 2012, only Romney—who has been on the campaign trail for nearly 7 years and who has the best national organization of any candidate at this point—…

Millennials Put Off By Rigid, Judgmental Religion Offered … More Orthodoxy

By Daniel Schultz

…rches that demand orthodoxy—another word for holiness—are the ones that do best. That’s even true! Conservative churches do fare better these days than liberal ones, though the sociologists tell me that’s mostly the result of their later adoption of birth control. The cultural trends are the cultural trends, even if they do take longer to catch up with some groups than others. It makes a certain surface amount of sense, then, that Shrum would argu…

Jews and Baseball: A Reflection on a Longtime Love Affair

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…d following the game after the Dodgers left Brooklyn, for a long period of time I couldn’t figure out who my team really was. It was a geographic identity crisis as much as anything else; one must root for the home team, and I just wasn’t sure where home was. I rooted for New York and former New York teams—the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, and Mets (my mother’s team)—all still had my affection, and to some extent still do. But I’ve lived in Philadelph…

Does Atheism Have a Misogyny Problem?

By Julia Galef

…is dismissiveness. Amid the Mudslinging, Some Thoughtful Discussion By the time The Amazing Meeting rolled into Vegas, nerves were raw. It seemed like everyone was both sick of hearing about Elevatorgate, and still nursing at least a little irritation toward what they perceived as either the sexism and insensitivity or the political correctness of their fellow atheists. Those of us in attendance dealt with it the best way we knew how—by joking abo…

SCOTUS Likely to Support Memorial Cross; Should We Even Care?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…tists, Pentecostals? How should they divvy up taxpayer money? Who gets the best spots on government property for their symbols? The only fair solution is for the government to remain neutral on religious issues. None is favored, none is disfavored, all are equal. ALSO FROM THE AUTHOR Divorcing religion from the government does not promote atheism, as some claim. Imagine a football coach at a public high school. He’s a government employee so the se…

As U.S. Went to Hell, R.E.M. Hung in Without Cynicism

By Brian K. Pennington

…rther from the nihilism of Nirvana’s distorted and driving chords than R.E.M.’s qualified insistence that the articulation of meaning and the comfort of community are our best hope in troubled political times? Thanks, fellas, for keeping the faith. R.E.M. Losing My Religion by bymusti77…

Trump In Colorado: When the “Facts” Are No Longer Checkable

By Paul Harvey

…that crime is “up,” pointing out that crime has been going down for a long time now, for reasons that scholars continue to debate. The same goes for killings of police officers–about half of what they were annually during the Reagan administration. In both cases, the slight upticks over the past year are disturbing exceptions to the trend, but hardly evidence of some mythical crime wave sweeping the country. But fact-checking is beside the point….