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Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…, enough to tip the election in Georgia in his direction. And yet it’s highly unlikely that outside of RD, we’ll ever hear much about those voters’ religious commitments, or how increasing secularization among young Blacks shapes the community’s politics. Jack Jenkins had a chapter on it in his new book, and that’s all I’ve seen. Chrissy: Ha! I watched a lot of cartoons from my parents’ generation when I was a kid. And yes, I think that good relig…

Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’

By Kevin Healey

…chimed in: “World peace?” “That’s the low bar,” Meng explained. Grasping a nearby hand, he confided that his real goal is to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars. Acknowledging the concerns raised that morning, he emphasized his sincere commitment to expanding his approach by including a greater emphasis on…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…art of ourselves is consciousness, whatever that means. The brain is the only bit of the body that matters, because surely that’s where the consciousness lives. When you combine this with the idea that only some people have real consciousness, only some people can program, while everyone else has a false, programmed consciousness, you get to the version of simulation theory Mystwood is playing with—he is the universe, the universe is code, his cod…

Take the Van Gogh Challenge: Doctor Who Part VII

By Gabriel Mckee

…t’s famous saying (in this case, a composer, but the principle seems to apply equally well to other fine arts). After his fifth symphony was met with an unappreciative response from critics, Gustav Mahler expressed the desire to be able to conduct its premiere fifty years after his death. Perhaps precisely because of their distinctiveness of vision, artists are often unappreciated in their time, but seem to just as often be valued later on. It is…

The Russian Patriarch Just Gave His Most Dangerous Speech Yet — And Almost No One in the West Has Noticed

By Katherine Kelaidis

…culate, Belarusians) as “Holy Russians.” Disregarding for a moment how simply, factually wrong Patriarch Kirill’s history is, this sermon does mark a dangerous escalation in the rhetoric coming from the Moscow Patriarchate—and, we can assume, by extension the Russian state. This rhetorical advance is made all the more dangerous by the fact that most in the West won’t even know the sermon happened, let alone be aware of its pernicious implications….

One Year After 1/6, Media Still Refuse to Recognize Authoritarian Christianity

By Chrissy Stroop

…de the category of “religious values,” even though she has already (correctly) referred to Trump’s Christian nationalist base as having been moved by an “apocalyptic vision.” Later Rubin doubles down, referring to “the MAGA crowd’s very unreligious cruelty toward immigrants,” as if religion were always pro-social, pro-immigrant, and pro-democracy. In fact, there are no such things as universal “religious values”—nor can we reasonably call the “tra…

Response: Is Proselytizing Offensive? Sure. But I Won’t Give Them the Satisfaction of Martyrdom

By Peter Laarman

…get saved. Chrissy didn’t mention this, but I tend to think that many proselytizers actually enjoy having their conversion efforts rejected, as this reinforces the smug sense that the cross of Christ will be a “stumbling block” for many. It reinforces the neat and comforting division of humanity into the saved and the damned. Chrissy also doesn’t address a particularly egregious dimension of the proselytizers’ program. I’m referring here to the ob…

Is Tarot Just a Cool Self-Help Deck of Cards?

By Daniel Wise

…t wants to integrate more spirituality into your life or to look at life a bit more philosophically.’” As a scholar of contemporary American spirituality, my first question is who gets to decide what tarot is, and how do influential media outlets like NPR decide whom to platform? What I can tell you is that, for many, tarot is most certainly about predicting the future, it is very much supernatural, and the attempt to privilege a tarot of rational…

A Church (Further) Divided: Putin’s Patriarch Now Faces a Rebellion From Within the Russian Orthodox Church

By Katherine Kelaidis

…but a war within Orthodoxy itself. While no one would expect people to easily pray for a faraway bishop seemingly indifferent to the fact that bombs are falling on them (as is precisely the case for Ukrainian Orthodox Christians under the Moscow Patriarchate at the moment), the fact that clerics within Russia seem to be publicly expressing dissatisfaction with Kirill’s pastoral guidance is a bit more shocking. While it might have been possible for…

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

…dern doctrines that are entwined with Pentecostalism and that are both highly politically charged and quite troubling. First, there’s the Seven Mountain Mandate, or 7M—the idea that right-thinking Christians are to take over the seven mountains or “spheres of influence” of culture and society. This includes education, religion, family, business, government, arts and entertainment, and media. The ideology draws from Pentecostalism and Christian Rec…