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What Happens When We Use Horror Movies to Interpret the Real World? 10 Questions for the Authors of ‘The Exorcist Effect’

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…er reportedly lost control of the vehicle and ran down an embankment. The truck rolled several times before coming to a stop just before a sharp 25-foot drop. The driver luckily escaped with only a few broken fingers and some 13 stitches. He reported seeing a large black dog with glowing red eyes standing in the road and swerved to avoid hitting it. A curse may explain why this book took nearly five years to write and why our research trip to Conn…

Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure

By Jay Michaelson

…to-social-psychologist for the TED Talk set. And his new book, Focus, is a New York Times bestseller. But before any of that fame, Goleman was a hardcore Buddhist meditator—and remains one today. His early books were about the development of the contemplative path, and throughout his work has run the theme of how meditative practice, in secular or spiritual contexts, can lead to greater happiness and peace—and conversely, how the disconnects in ou…

Atheists and Christians Compete to Give More

By Lauri Lebo

…page posted a response: “If r/Christianity builds a hospital in the Third world, we are going to build 10! Let the X-mas Wars and the overall battle for goodness in the world begin!” On Dec. 9, a member of the atheist group set up a fundraising page for the group Doctors Without Borders on the charitable donation site FirstGiving.com. Crymes, after encouraging members of the Christian group to donate to the atheists’ campaign, created her own Fir…

The Lethal Mix of Religion and War, Or, Why the World Ended in 1099

By Jay Rubenstein

…crusade veteran named Bohemond traveling around France in 1106 preaching a new crusade. Bohemond was a fascinating character. Initially the great hero of the crusade, he ended up a complete failure, dying a nearly forgotten man back in Italy where he started. As such he struck me as a compelling symbol for the entire crusade movement. There were definitely tearstains on my keyboard when I cut out that chapter. What are some of the biggest misconce…

Dispatches From the Rhodian Shore: A (Tough) Love Letter to Religious Studies

By Todd LeVasseur

…of future dispatches about religion written from inundated shores, hopefully they will reflect that religious studies joined with the rest of the academy in rising to the colossal challenges of our time. Hopefully they will reflect new hiring patterns, new patterns of engagement with colleagues across the academy and, in our teaching and research, a foregrounding of the natural world upon which our survival, let alone our intersectional flourishi…

A Comedy Writer Confronts ‘Mind-Shredding Evil’ in Uganda

By Frederick Clarkson

…rmer top commanders, (an ex-bodyguard for president Museveni) was hired to run it. Bussmann learned that this was more the rule than the exception. Writing on the Huffington Post she recently declared that some 20-66,000 children have been direct victims of what amounts to a “fake war.” “But if everyone knew… why had nobody stopped him?” she wondered. “All around me, millions were being pumped into the effort.” “Only a cynic,” she continued, “coul…

Magic In the Daylight

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ing character in the film, gets to be the mouthpiece for its message: “The world may or may not be a world of purpose, but it does contain a little bit of magic.” I know it’s just a romantic comedy, but I couldn’t help being a little disappointed. I guess I just don’t see what purpose and magic have to do with one another. If Sophie could really contact an unseen world of souls of the dead, it would certainly make death less final. But how would i…

World Vision Rescinds Decision to Employ LGBT Marrieds

By Elizabeth Drescher

…onservative Evangelical Christians. In a statement released yesterday, the World Vision president Richard Stearns followed the well-worn Evangelical tradition and offered a weepy apology to conservatives who were outraged by the earlier decision to allow compassion to trump conservative correctness in its employment policies: We are brokenhearted over the pain and confusion we have caused many of our friends, who saw this decision as a reversal of…

God Bless Islam with Courageous Leadership

By Ebrahim Moosa

…I testify that all servants of God are one family… Make me and my family truthful to you in every moment of life in this world and the next. Oh powerful and generous one, hear and respond to my prayers… My second prayer is that God bless Islam with a religious leadership that has a modicum of Solomonic wisdom and tons of moral courage. Why these two prayers? I think many Muslims have forgotten the message of humanism and solidarity with all creat…

Family Planning is Vatican’s Blind Spot on Environment

By Frances Kissling

…the agenda of the conference. It came up, as Andrew Revkin blogged in the New York Times, “99 minutes into the conference.” Werner Arber, the head of the Academy of Sciences and a Nobel laureate in medicine was asked by a Hong Kong attendee Hsin-chi Kuan if he believed in birth control. Arber replied that he did. Many delegates believe in birth control, or family planning—the less politically charged expression. Jeffery Sachs from Colombia Univer…