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#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

…ents, she makes her classes only ten dollars each, and five dollars for Friday classes. This gives would-be yogis more affordable options in a city where yoga—a practice that requires little-to-no equipment—somehow averages about twenty bucks a class, a barrier to many. Polk hopes to combat the pop culture image of yoga as a pastime of the privileged, and trap yoga is a vehicle for that. When the studio first opened, it was mostly USC students, bu…

QAnon isn’t a Cult — a Problematic Term — But Michael Protzman’s Q-Adjacent ‘Negative48’ Certainly Is

By Thomas Lecaque

…sus is coming, you guys ready, it’s going to be pretty awesome.” That same day, other members of the group posted this image: TheKool-Aid reference is, of course, about Jonestown. And making a joke out of it is not particularly funny, it’s incredibly scary. Jonestown was a murder-suicide, but predominantly a murder of the congregation by their leaders—over 900 died on the last day, when Jones forced his followers to drink cyanide-laden punch, begi…

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…to U2’s longtime tour manager, Dennis Sheehan, who had died earlier in the day appears at the end of the band’s concert at The Forum arena in Los Angeles on May 27. Photo by Cathleen Falsani for Religion Dispatches. After attending a U2 show in San Jose, Calif., earlier this month, Noel Gallagher of the band Oasis described it as a “psychedelic experience” that was “staggering.” “It starts off as a punk rock gig but then it gets intimate, there’s…

Trump Pardons the Hammonds, Arsonists Who Inspired Bundy Standoff

By Megan Goodwin

…, damage federal property, and endanger the lives of other Americans. This week, the 45th president of the United States pardoned Steven and Dwight Hammond. A statement issued on July 10th granted the Hammonds full clemency. There is no mention of Hammonds’ crimes—crimes that, were they committed by men of another race or religion, he would surely denounce as terrorism. Rather, the president calls the Hammonds’ sentences, which were handed down ac…

Indonesia: As Volcano Erupts, a Spiritual Loss

By Mark Woodward

…kilometers north of Yogyakarta, a city of approximately 500,000. On clear days, views of the mountain dominate the northern horizon. Merapi is always at least somewhat active. It “smokes” every day. In the more than thirty years that I have been visiting Yogyakarta, I have never seen Merapi without a plume of smoke rising from the summit. There are many in Yogyakarta who understand natural disasters in religious ways. Merapi holds a special place…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…d it both troubling and in some cases lacking in depth. Describing a USA Today column by Mansfield titled “The Founders got it right: Religion now rests in a tortured place in society today, thanks largely to unfortunate and misguided rulings of the Supreme Court,” Don Byrd of Talk2Action wrote that Mansfield “called up all of the standard church-state myths and mis-directions: that the Founders intended America to be a Christian nation, that reli…

Man Behind Willie Horton Ad Is Out to Save America from the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…iage equality opponents and supporters) live with those consequences every day. But it’s worth remembering that while Mormons (who make up 2% of the California population) may have given 50 – 70% of the money and walked the precincts in some California communities, it was millions upon millions of homophobic non-Mormon Californians of all faiths and colors who pulled the levers to end marriage equality in the Golden State. If Karger thinks he can…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…g B’Omer, the whole country smelled like a bonfire that night and the next day,” he said to me one day when I was explaining my book project to him. “Also, my clothes smelled like a bonfire, of course, so it must require lots of extra laundering.” According to news reports, there are so many bonfires lit on Lag B’Omer that satellite images reveal a smoky haze hovering over Israel during the holiday. Scientific research has shown that visits to eme…

Sing the Glory of the Smoke: The Spiritual History of Jazz

By Andrew Aghapour

…but she doesn’t actually have to sit down and practice scales for hours a day. I’d love to hear more about how the bodily practices involved with jazz influence the way musicians talk about spirituality. I think it influences in almost every way. So on the most general level, when we think about embodiment I think of again another contrast between SBNR and those who seek to “rejoice with spirits.” One of the contrasts is between a socio-economic…

Set to Privilege Christianity in Public Schools, Texas Sends a Message About Who is Welcome — And Who is Not

By Steven K. Green

…c schools and outsiders conducting religious instruction during the school day are unconstitutional. Under normal circumstances, these various laws would be “dead on arrival” in any federal court challenge. But we no longer exist under normal circumstances when it comes to constitutional rights. After the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, reversing a 50-year-old precedent protecting reproductive rights, once-secure constitutional rights ar…