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The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…ards. I would ride my bike through our suburb’s streets hunting for garage sale stereos, which I would haul like a little Viking raider back to my room to pillage for parts. What the resistors, transistors, capacitors, diodes and wires were parts for, well, I was still figuring that out, but mining and collecting and imagining various useful futures for them—a powerful laser weapon or a spy listening device?—was a serious passion. These objects al…

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

By Kevin Healey

…mbles Baumgartner’s tailspin both in terms of the difficulty of restoring balance and the danger posed by the potential loss of lifeblood. Acquiescence to techno-utopian ideology leads to a willingness to jump into new technical environments, but the consequences of such imprudence are not uniformly distributed. In the context of digital monopolies, users become locked into a limited range of commercial providers who, in turn, generate profit by e…

Can the Religious Left be Effective Again? Short Answer: No

By Daniel Schultz

…unusual opportunity for liberals and progressives of all stripes to make a sale, but none of the reasons I’ve listed above has much to do with the strength of liberal faith. The weakness of the religious left mostly reflects the divisions of our society. Does this mean religious lefties shouldn’t even bother? By no means! You can judge for yourself how effective particular causes are likely to be. But there is one enormous meta-issue where the rel…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…tual tourist,” while Rinzler is a longtime meditation teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage. His 2012 book, The Buddha Walks into a Bar, has sold widely. Over the phone, I asked Rinzler why he and Burrows had chosen to establish the studio as a for-profit company. “We really wanted to make sure we had all the resources we need for supporting people who are trying meditation for the first time,” Rinzler explained. Because they’re a business, th…

The Bindi Isn’t Indie

By Yesenia Vargas

…59130625 Kyra splits her time between the U.S. and her parents’ home in Ambala, India. When she’s in the West, she’s used to trading in her salwar khameez and bindi for jeans and a beanie to blend in. But now she’s shocked to see the bindi as street fashion. “It’s offensive,” she says bluntly. “They’re not Hindu, they’re not even South Asian, they have no excuse.” “Most Westerners who appropriate the bindi do it for fashion. I’ve seen a few do it…

The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba

By Sean O'Neil

…t Latin American nation, while also diffusing anti-U.S. sentiment. The manifestation of resentment toward Americans, this is merely on the surface, I believe, and will disappear if the American Government makes any attempt to win the good will of Dominicans . . . I deem it worthy of the Department’s notice that the American national game of baseball is being played and supported with great enthusiasm. The remarkable effect of this outlet for the a…

“Unrealistic” Candidates and the Prophetic Tradition

By Peter Laarman

…so that we may sell grain, and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small the the shekel great and practice deceit with false balances, buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and selling the sweepings of the wheat.’ The Lord had sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. In the face of this impudence, Amaziah, a corrupt court prophet, complained loudly to…

Mayday’s Demise and the Rise of our Gloomy Empire

By Ed Simon

…Morton and his “crew of Comus,” but in 1628 he couldn’t ignore the poet’s sale of arms to the Algonquin, his flagrantly libertine colony, or his latest Maypole, this time with poems dedicated to Neptune, Triton, Hymen and Priapus affixed to its side (among the earliest of English language poetry in America). And so, Miles Standish was dispatched, the Maypole was cut down, and Morton was sent in chains back to an England on the verge of civil war….

Do Atheists Borrow Religion’s Morality?

By Frank Schaeffer

…t that if he’s right (and in a raw, pure and absolutist form atheism is unpalatable to most people), then that might be an indication that there is something to all this “religion stuff” besides the temporary emotional analgesic he describes. Maybe, if wanting meaning is the way people are, and we are part of nature, then those feelings—however they express themselves—might indicate something true about the reality of nature and the way it actuall…

US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives

By Chrissy Stroop

…cordance with Catholic dogma, which many patients don’t share—has grown to alarming proportions in the United States. About 1 in 7 U.S. hospital beds are in Catholic systems. And, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as of 2020: “35.3% of US counties, where 38.7% of US women of reproductive age live, have a high Catholic hospital market share.” The key concern about Catholic hospitals is the restrictio…