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The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…he entire canon of Mormon texts. Billed as “the perfect companion to your Halal digital lifestyle,” iSalat allows Muslim users to calculate the proper prayer times, wherever they may travel. One of the many available Jewish scripture apps, iTalmud gives the user access to the entire Babylonian Talmud in the original Gemaric Aramaic and Hebrew. The iBlessing and Parveometer apps, meanwhile, can help an iPhone-wielding Jew keep kosher. This is just…

Things the GOP Won’t Like about Ron Paul

By Julie Ingersoll

…urrent policies amount to bullying. Generally speaking, Paul is opposed to almost all use of authority by the federal government. He voted against the Patriot Act and is opposed to all regulation of the internet including bans on internet gambling, pornography (and child pornography). He opposed the Bush administration’s defense of the use of torture in the war of terror and argues that almost everything we have done in the interest of security po…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…d its impact on you? Moshe Shokeid: Twenty years later I observe a new social reality. Gay life in the United States and other Western countries has been transformed in public life to the extent of becoming almost “mainstream.” Lesbians and gays have come out and are fully accepted in leading social, political and cultural positions. The stigma that engulfed homosexuality also in academic circles evaporated—programs of Lesbian and Gay studies as w…

Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015

By Andrew Aghapour

…, investigated the cultural roots of the anti-vaccine movement, critiqued Silicon Valley asceticism, and explored some of the scientific, religious, and political dimensions of blame. We’ve also kept an eye out for writing that busts the mainstream binary. Broken into three categories, here are the Cubit’s picks for the top investigations of religion, science, and technology in 2015. Religion + Technology Benjamin Breen’s, “Into the Mystic” explor…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…usading Christendom and Islamic fundamentalism, forge an unlikely traditionalist alliance to face the onslaught. The Bronze Age Zionist meme replaces the spider with Nick Fuentes, the Christian and Muslim knights with a ‘traditionalist’ Haredi Jew and an ostensibly more ‘modernized’ Zionist Jew—and most strikingly, places a neo-Nazi sonnenrad symbol, with a Star of David in its center, atop the rays of sunlight bursting through the stormy clouds….

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…ne systems; those of the seasons and the sun; those of traditional and ritual calendars. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, as standard time arrived, local customs adapted to the change, and sometimes resisted it. Ogle’s main case studies here are from the Muslim world, and particularly Beirut, where locals had to navigate standard time, local time (the two systems seemingly overlapped for years), Muslim ritual time, the Muslim ritual calendar,…

Looking for Islam in All the Wrong Places: A Response to Nabeel Qureshi

By Jonathan Homrighausen and Elijah Reynolds

…l Islam—apparently on the internet, where young potential ISIS recruits easily find real Islam too. Qureshi’s rejection of the learned scholars of his community in favor of the internet (maybe Reddit’s exmuslim sub) is comparable to an atheist learning everything she knows about Christianity from Richard Dawkins. Like all fundamentalists, Qureshi’s deviation from the normative tradition begins the moment he declares the religious scholars of his t…

“What’s the Relationship of Technology to God?”: A Q&A with Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…ay the plant wants light, the technium has certain wants as well. The digital internet exhibits many lifelike patterns, even though none of the pieces are living, so I’m looking at it much more from a systems point of view. You once named media theorist Marshall McLuhan the “patron saint of Wired.” How has he influenced your understanding of technology? I have to say I have never been able to read very much of McLuhan. I think actually that’s part…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…about the faith of these people, so they can decide on that.” The church will also help ministers to get the necessary legal documentation to ratify civil unions. “The pastors who will legitimise these relationships have to be licensed by the state and we will in due course now start liaising with the state to make that possible for these pastors who are actually willing to become commissioners of same-sex relationships,” Van Rensburg said. “The…

Facebook’s “No Religion” Policy Hoax

By Gwynne Watkins

…and put enough energy into it to make it look semi-legit—though, as per usual with internet hoaxes, they didn’t spell-check it. So why this particular message? Was it mocked up by an atheist who wants his aunt to stop posting about the rapture? A secular person who wants to make religious people look dumb? A religious person trying to send a message that mainstream culture is still the enemy? Most likely, it was just somebody who wanted to see if…