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Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…wanted to make that point. I also wanted to make the point that I’m not a spiritual person. In fact, I’m a person who has spiritual envy. Although a lot of people who read this book have said that it shows how spiritual I am, I’m more of a seeker. But I did find myself saying it’s okay if you like to go to a Yom Kippur service and find it moving to hear the Kol Nidre, or are moved by the shofar being blown on Rosh Hashanah. I grew up with a stron…

Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…should have been writing last week’s Preachers’ Daughters recap. I didn’t manage to write it, and anyway it seemed too soon. But here, listen to me, starting what’s meant to be a lighthearted episode recap with a reflection on tragedy! Sorry. The thing is, I just can’t bring the snark this week, because I’ve spent the week thinking different versions of, “My God, the things we do to one other.” This week’s episode of Preachers’ Daughters featur…

Unreleased Religious Freedom Manifesto Isn’t the Culture War Compromise It Hopes to Be

By Frederick Clarkson

…’t technically correct. In an email correspondence with the communications manager of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center it became clear that, although the bios of both the project director and senior advisor still include those affiliations, none of the members of the American Charter team is currently affiliated with Georgetown University as of this summer. See below for more. **Charles Haynes’s letter to potential endorsers quoted above, da…

Herman Cain Sings For the Press

By Anthea Butler

…so-called joking all remind me of a statue that was placed in Louisiana in 1927 called the “Uncle Jack, the Good Darky.” Designed to honor faithful slaves that kept the plantations while their masters went off to war, the statue has a plaque that says “Erected by the city of Natchitoches in grateful recognition of the arduous and faithful services of the good darkies of Louisiana.” The statue aggravated many blacks, but wasn’t put away into stora…

I Am Better than Him

By Amina Wadud

…-age life style has led her to a level of arrogance I can sometimes barely manage to abide by. I think it is good and necessary for all human beings to continually make choices that they think will improve the quality of their lives: food, clothing, spirituality, geography— whatever it takes. But I am clear that there are no choices that anyone makes which earns them the place better than others who make different choices. So, it is better for not…

Hitchens Debates Conservative Evangelical: Nothing Happens

By Eric Reitan

…is that so long as both parties are well-matched, and so long as they both manage to get in a few good arguments, a few moments of mesmerizing rhetoric, or a few clever put-downs that get the fans cheering, both sides can declare victory. There is no official scoreboard, and each can return to his respective constituencies at the end of the day and spin the contest as a win. Wilson can go back to his evangelical fan base and say, as he did in the…

Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness

By Alan Levinovitz

…r formal education. The Tao of Happiness: Stories from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey Derek Lin Tarcher November 17, 2015 In keeping with this formula, Lin opens the The Tao of Happiness by telling readers that “in Chinese culture, Chuang Tzu is not an academic subject to be analyzed but a source of inspiration and insight.” While the latter claim might be true, the former is certainly false. The Chuang Tzu—an eponymous proto-Taoist text fr…

Red White and Blue No Longer

By Peter Laarman

…lebrated, democratically, by whites themselves. America’s most visionary spirits (e.g., Walt Whitman in “Democratic Vistas”) always expected the idea of American democracy and the idea of a new and blended population to lift people above any form of tribalism. Alas, this is not that kind of sane culture. Tribalism, especially white tribalism, still runs deep. And as religion has everything to do with this particular form of insanity, religion is…

$50 Billion Fundamentalist Free Fall

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ersonally had some sort of Social Security “account” that he or she could “manage.” It isn’t quite like that anymore than Madoff’s investors’ money was simply theirs, available to them whenever they needed it. The second worry was more predictable and more timely. The idea was just too risky. The Bush proposal hinged on his limitless confidence in the stock market’s ability to rise. The fundamental rule of capital—that higher risks generate higher…

Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

By Katherine Stewart

…initas school district has an effective response to the first concern. The management and administration of the yoga program, the school insists, is internal. Assistant Superintendent Miyashiro, who has no connection with the Jois Foundation, sets the curriculum, helps choose the teachers, and monitors the results. He has the authority and the resources in place to manage the program and ensure that its content and execution it is answerable to th…