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New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…ll will these numbers hold up if Israel’s “most favored nation” status is truly challenged by an American administration? Despite some American Jewish alienation from Israeli policy, backing for a bold new direction in the peace process is not entirely solid, a fact reflected in the same survey. 40% of respondents continue to support West Bank settlements, which, no matter how J Street chooses to spin it, is not an insignificant number. 75% suppor…

Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed

By Hamdan Azhar

…ith than they are now?” Mr. Harris is an apologist—one of the best—for the worldview that modern liberals have appropriated from Perle, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Fukuyama in which American military dominance, paired with Silicon Valley solutionism (brilliantly deconstructed as a corporatist regressive farce by Morozov and others) combines with Randian objectivism to usher in a new era of Pax Americana—with the silicon chip as the golden calf at the al…

Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

By Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst

…enerally I think the megatrend, as it were, is good. Also on The Cubit: Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York Follow The Cubit, RD‘s religion and science portal, @TheCubit….

Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch

By Konstantin Petrenko

…e Orthodox Church. The election of Kirill I as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia marks a new chapter in the Church’s millennial history, but its consequences extend far beyond church walls or even Russia’s borders. Although the choice of Kirill was predictable—after all, he had been the most recognizable and outspoken Orthodox cleric—what remains unclear is how his leadership will change the direction of the Church, and what it will mean for Russ…

Unauthorized Catholic Immigrants will Renew a Christian America, Archbishop Says

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt

…When we forget our country’s roots in the Hispanic-Catholic mission to the new world, we end up with distorted ideas about our national identity. We end up with the idea that Americans are descended from only White Europeans and that our culture is based only on the individualism, work ethic, and rule of law that we inherited from our Anglo-Protestant forebears. In the past, when Americans have experienced this collective amnesia, he reminds his…

My Childhood Hobby Was Satanic, Or So They Told Me

By Joseph Laycock

…aying games seemed so threatening to some people. Some of the most ardent crusaders against role-playing games seemed to have been deeply disturbed by the idea that their worldview could actually be a game, no more real than the worlds created in D&D. They never came out and said this, of course, but in their jeremiads about the dangers of these games, they occasionally tipped their hands. I think the claim that D&D is not a game but an “occult re…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…now sound. Less than a hundred years later, a pope would launch the first Crusade, and The Scientist Pope would be branded a sorcerer and devil-worshipper for having taught the science that had come into Christian Europe from Islamic Spain. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? The popular picture of the Dark Ages is wrong. The earth wasn’t flat. People weren’t terrified that the world would end at midnight on December 31, 999….

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…Bruchalski, a former abortion provider from North Carolina; Dr. Anthony Caruso, a former in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialist in Chicago; Ruth Yorston, former women’s health clinic receptionist, currently Executive Director of Right to Life in Greater Ohio; and three former Planned Parenthood employees: Sue Thayer from Iowa, Catherine Adair from Massachusetts, and Linda Couri, who also discussed her own abortion. And then there was the headlin…

The Messiah is Not Coming

By Peter Laarman

…odel. Everyone agreed that we could do better by listening to each other, trusting each other, and finding new paths together. And this gets us to the main End Times challenge for religious leadership. Congregational life in the United States (in all denominations and faith traditions) generally presupposes the existence of middle-class families as primary stakeholders. There are other models, of course: congregations as communities of resistance…

But ‘Natural’ is Better, No? ‘How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science’

By Andrew Aghapour

…t scientists can slip into overly simplistic understandings of nature, sometimes for similar reasons. I see it all the time. The coronavirus is a good example. I just wrote something about this recently. Even very careful scientists, who wouldn’t otherwise embrace the appeal to nature, say things like, “You know this is what we get for messing with nature,” or, “This is what happens when we interfere with ecosystems.” It’s because of this binary t…