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How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…n’s living room in the Oakland hills, I fished in my bag for the tiny microphone I planned to use with my iPhone, to record our conversation. “Is that what you’re using?” he asked, with great interest. He held up his own phone. “I just got one of these. Will this really work?” He sat next to me on the couch as I pointed him through the app store on his phone. “There it is,” I said, pointing to iTalk. “That’s what I’m using.” He tapped the screen,…

Cloverfield: Sin & Redemption, with Monsters

By Gabriel Mckee

…n short, it’s self-absorption: the characters in this film search for cell phone chargers while the world falls down around them. In one key scene (that appears in the trailer), the monster hurls the head of the Statue of Liberty, which crashes down a few feet from the POV camera. Within seconds, people have lined up in front of it to take pictures with their cell phones. They’re distanced from what’s happening around them, oblivious to what it re…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

…e and signals my bag. I wait until we prostrate then switch it off while still in the bag. Phew! Minimal damage, I hope. No chance. Ms. Niqabi asks me first do I speak Arabic. Then, noticing my nametag, she asks do I speak English. No friendly greeting seems eminent. I said, “Yes, I speak English.” She asks if my cell phone ring has music on it, then she informs me that it is haram to bring music into the mosque! I told her, “Well, that may be so,…

The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…ncluding Obama, but has coalesced with the religious right in opposing health care reform, reproductive rights, and LGBT rights by deploying the rhetoric of spiritual warfare. Robison maintains that depending on the government “is idolotry. We must control it, or it will control us. Stop the madness! Hitler believed that Germany needed a government over the people, not of the people. God deliver us from this kind of insanity.” I suspect a lot of o…

Are You There God? It’s Me, Donald: A President at Prayer

By Peter Laarman

…o great. I’ve always been the best at praying. You know who told me that? Billy Graham himself. He told me, “Donald, you pray better than I do, and I am the most famous Christian in the world.” He told me that last week in a great, great phone call. Oh, and Fred Douglass. I need to get his input, too. Just this morning I told them, the great African Americans who supported me completely, what an amazing job Fred is doing, being recognized more and…

Conservative Rep Grills Oklahoma Personhood Sponsors

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e embryos and some are destroyed, as routinely happens? And miscarriages: will they be investigated? Will they require coroner’s reports and death certificates? It’s entirely possible to think abortion is wrong, while still being bothered by the potential consequences of turning blastocyst-Americans into legal rights-bearing persons. But meanwhile, those who are most invested in getting a personhood bill passed won’t be pleased with any exception…

Mormons Prepare to March in LGBT Pride Parades Nationwide

By Joanna Brooks

…ons Building Bridges has an open Facebook group so that we can monitor the number of people to anticipate. Right now, we anticipate 100 Mormons participating. I hope it will grow. This is an invitation for people to be proactive. I know Pride is on a Sunday, and it’s a big deal for people to miss church. I understand that. This is an invitation to worship by walking, to worship by using our bodies—Mormon theology has a very specific place for bodi…

What Can a Real Life Haunting Tell Us About American Religion? [Updated]

By Daniel Wise

…ouse. She reported that, whenever she tried to speak to this friend on the phone in the house about the haunting, the phone connection would be interrupted. As a busy woman with two kids, Maria doesn’t always have a lot of time to devote to spirituality, but when she does, she often relies on intuition. In the case of the haunting, she reports that her intuition pointed her toward the conclusion that it’s the land on which the house was built that…

Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…eir nonreligious identity. When RD recently spoke with American Atheists’ Gill over the phone, she also noted that her organization and others like it “hear from constituents every day who have complaints about their children facing discrimination and bullying in school, how they’re at risk at work for talking about their beliefs, how they’re not able to access government services.” Stigmatized minority or bullies without a pulpit? The representat…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…t of an economy characterized by opportunity, where the poor of the world will be limited in their achievements only by the will with which they tug at their own bootstraps. And, yes, as Miller would say, both of these idealized conceptions of the nation are “ahistorical.” The religious imagination focuses beyond history for a reason: history is often ugly, cruel, a theater of the worst and most petty aspects of human nature. Looking beyond this,…