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Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette

By Michael Schulson

…h a lot of of commenting, speculating, and damn, those kids are all doing x, y, and z on their cellphones, and it’s an outrage! Pew’s study of cellphone etiquette gives us one way to begin digging into a much larger set of questions: which norms do we, and should we, place around the use of digital tools? When are these opinions just personal preferences, and when do they take on a more explicit ethical dimension? When should we enforce them? Part…

A Tale of Religious Tolerance… On Reddit

By Joanna Piacenza

…pean_douchebag” wasn’t questioning which game the woman was playing on her phone, he was referencing the abundance of facial hair on the young woman’s face—a nod towards her Sikh beliefs of not altering her body image. Unaware that others around him might practice faiths besides his own, “european_douchebag” posted the picture under the Reddit tab “Funny,” hoping to get an elbow-in-the-side snickering reaction from the online community. But what h…

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

…sheikh cites this state as one of “deep prayer”). If you are away from home, too, you can “combine” four prayer-rituals into sets of two (dhuhr and asr, and maghrib and isha). For people like me, the huge time gap between prayer-rituals while in a state of travel can be almost disorienting. We live our lives from prayer-time to prayer-time. This is a very specific state of being. I struggle with the loneliness of not being able to share this state…

Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Raymond Burke has declared, a fundamental departure from Catholic teaching, asking, “Shouldn’t these people have another opportunity to start a fresh experience and aspire to be loyal and faithful in line with the teachings of God?” Regarding gay relationships, Grech said: The synod said very little about this matter for the simple reason that any further focus could have seriously jeopardised the approval of the entire document. In fact, the 201…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…age. His 2012 book, The Buddha Walks into a Bar, has sold widely. Over the phone, I asked Rinzler why he and Burrows had chosen to establish the studio as a for-profit company. “We really wanted to make sure we had all the resources we need for supporting people who are trying meditation for the first time,” Rinzler explained. Because they’re a business, there’s more professionalism. The teachers they’ve hired show up on time, and, as Rinzler put…

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

By Peter Laarman

…. Whatever. I’ll just say “God.” OK? I’ll take that as a yes. Beautiful. So, God, I’ve got this breakfast thing tomorrow, which is really more Mike Pence’s crowd than mine. They’ve been so good to me. But boy, they love Mike, this crowd. I looked at the speech Steve gave me. I’m definitely gonna use this line: “I have met amazing people whose words of worship and encouragement have been a constant source of strength.” That’s a good one. So smart….

The Horror Mugabe Doesn’t Want the World to See

By Frederick Clarkson

…are being denied the most basic of life’s necessities—access to health care, food, clean water, and even life itself. The world must take action against the Mugabe regime for these crimes against humanity.” Excerpts from HEALTH IN RUINS: A Man-Made Disaster in Zimbabwe: Crimes Against Humanity …Robert Mugabe [has attempted] to conceal the appalling situation of his country’s people and to prevent the world from knowing how his government’s maligna…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…china. Unplug and play with your kids. Take a “Sabbath” from email. And you, too, will learn how to be here. Rob Bell, for most of us, will be best known as the guy who declared hell doesn’t exist—and caught hell for it from his fellow evangelicals. The author of Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (and many, many other books), he is the former founder and pastor of the Mars Hill Bible megachurch in Gr…

The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…ms, you miss all the other ways that religion and science, interact, mingle, and, yes, clash. An even bigger problem is that journalists often treat the pollster’s map as territory. Rather than scrutinize the pollster’s methods, they report their findings as object facts and add their own spin. Readers are left with a map of a map—a caricature, drawn in thick lines on thin paper. Also on The Cubit: A conversation about polling with Robert Wuthnow…

Sex, Violence, Art, and Religion

By Kent L. Brintnall

…le isn’t completely bound up with cultural representations of the male body, is, to my mind, also quite short-sighted. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? Yes. Me. As much as I shouldn’t say this during a moment when public universities generally (and humanities departments specifically) are the site of budgetary struggles, and are attacked for offering nothing worthwhile to the public at large, I am quite clear that I wrote thi…