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Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nt might accompany a biblical text read on that saint’s day in the liturgical calendar without otherwise having anything to do with the scripture passage. Of particular delight to us today, much of the marginalia in illuminated books expressed the opinions and feelings of the illuminator about all manner of things—his demanding wife, the debauched monks in his neighborhood, or his own bacchanalian exploits. Books of commentary, known as “glosses,”…

Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

By Nicole Greenfield

…g Prostitution, Sex-Trafficking, Slavery Annie Lobért grew up in a middle class family on a tree-lined street in Minnesota. Her upbringing was strict, and she hated the rules that her mother and her father and the church imposed on her. “So naturally when I hit the age of a teenager,” she told Joy Behar in a television interview, “I just went wild.” Lobért did drugs and she slept around. She was insecure and felt unloved, so she started stripping…

Will Internet Kill Mormonism Too? Or Just Missionaries?

By Holly Welker

…e.” We never had enough study time. If you didn’t understand a gospel topic before you went on your mission, chances were slim that you would learn a lot more about it as a missionary, especially because we were extremely limited in the books we were allowed to read: officially permitted reading consisted of less than a dozen texts, including standard LDS scriptures. There was also the instruction to read the Book of Mormon every day, even if that…

Aliens Are Fattening Us Up For the Rapture

By Mark Hulsether

…net Earth), devoted his television show to this very question: “Are UFOs Real?” If you missed the show, here it is on Lindsey’s website. Lindsey’s short answer to CNN’s question is that yes, indeed, UFOs are real and fully understandable, almost predictable, in terms of Lindsay’s dispensationalist end-times scenarios. They are literal demons and are further evidence for a plot that is “subtly advancing us toward the predicted one-world government….

A Meeting of Minds… and Computers: What Are the Costs of Using Technology to Merge Humans with Machines?

By Jeremy Lent

…of Silicon Valley’s leading entrepreneurs. But his vision may contain a fatal flaw: the human brain cannot be split, like a computer, between hardware and software. Rather, neuroscientists point out that a neuron’s biophysical makeup is intrinsically linked to its computations; the information doesn’t exist separately from its material construction. Will humans get there first? There is, however, another kind of Singularity that doesn’t rely on a…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…s their spiritual state, and no one to lovingly care for their remains. Embalming emerged as a practice of corpse preservation that served a very practical need when the Victorian Good Death was disrupted by the carnage of war. The Good Death included a body―a body that could be cared for and buried by the deceased’s family. Embalming on the battlefield allowed 40,000 families (that could afford it) to have their loved one returned to them. How ou…

Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation

By Timothy Beal

…mals blessed and commanded to thrive independent of humans; humans and animals alike are told by God to eat plants, not other animals. This is a strictly vegetarian vision of world ecology. No animals were harmed in the making of this creation story. Which brings us to the dominion verse itself, which God addresses exclusively to the newly formed humans. Here it is in the familiar King James Version translation: “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the…

‘Slender Man’ Murder Attempt Wasn’t Media or Madness

By Joseph Laycock

…r Man mythos was an “atrocity story” intended to gain clemency. Accused criminals sometimes spin stories in which they were manipulated or coerced by cults or Satanists. Police interrogators often encourage such stories. Geyser seemed to engage in this tactic somewhat, telling police that if she hadn’t carried out the attack, “he” would kill her family. She then asked if a stabbing could be considered an act of self-defense. However, this interpre…

Science Mike Building a “Christian Science” Liturgy for the Nones

By D. Ashley Campbell

…ng an understanding of God that, he says, allows his scientific and spiritual minds to coexist. He came to know God “through the lenses of cosmology and neurology,” as he described it to RD in an interview. McHargue’s religious experience came after a serendipitous weekend that began with a visit to NASA and ended at a Rob Bell event where McHargue, for the first time, told a room of believers that he was an atheist. The crowd was welcoming and he…

Facebook: Internet Highway to Hell

By Anthea Butler

…ster Willow to ride on a friend who had the chutzpah to say “Sarah Palin’s Alaska is failing so hard right now.” Willow’s response was to call the poster a gay slur, and Bristol jumping in the fray to respondL “you’re just running your mouth to talk sh•t.” I give the Palin girls credit: the apples didn’t fall from the tree. They attack just like their mother. I wonder what the sisters would do to do to the man who shot his television set because h…