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Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?

By Michael Schulson

…rely rewrite the map of the human body. Like it or not, new research is going to force our society to confront questions that sound metaphysical, and to have new kinds of debates over the nature and extent of humanness. And, as always, questions of access will remain: who will get a place at the table? Who will get a chance to speak? Which voices will be suppressed? And which will be elevated? Also on The Cubit: Why cartoons are the 21st century…

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

…tion – strips the exemptions from the law. The minister said he hopes the bill will remove the “chilling effect” of discrimination, telling the Irish Times: “I am proud of this Bill, having spent four years of my career bringing it to the eventuality it will become tonight.” Africa: Commentary on the Pope’s visit, Catholic Church role on the continent Paul Vallely, author of “Pope Francis: The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism,” declared in a N…

Gay Marriage Opponents Running on Empty

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ns from 50 new supporters. Add that to the five other locations holding similar phone banks or collecting post cards of support, and I’m sure we easily got our 300 today. In addition, Equality Maryland hosted an interfaith meeting to mobilize supportive faith leaders. It was so great to see such a wonderfully diverse group of religious folks. We had Unitarian’s and Episcopalians and Presbyterians and Baptists, and we even had a Catholic priest and…

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…

Mormons Prepare to March in LGBT Pride Parades Nationwide

By Joanna Brooks

…st one young man who is gritting his teeth and going to church with his family sees us, perhaps he will know that there is someone in his ward, someone in his family he can talk to. Tell me more about “looking like Mormons” when you walk in Salt Lake City on June 3. I want everyone to wear what they wear to Church. I want us to look like the people streaming in and out of the LDS Conference Center, because that is who we are. We are active members…

A Tale of Religious Tolerance… On Reddit

By Joanna Piacenza

…ate. She jokes that if someone wanted a picture of her, she would have happily obliged and smiled for the camera. She then gently, with the patience of a preschool instructor teaching her students how to share, briefly describes Sikh beliefs that reject vanity in place of creating positive change: When I die, no one is going to remember what I looked like, heck, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away. However,…

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

By Spencer Dew

…the Trump administration official shot it down as “ahistorical.” Another fail for the White House, even if Miller’s facts were right and even if Acosta’s accosting of him went beyond the standard protocol of a journalistic Q&A. Miller even oddly opted to utter the word “racist,” as part of a denial of the bill being that, succeeding only in sounding suspicious, like the motorist at the traffic stop quick to volunteer that he’s not drunk. Reactions…

Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling

By Michael Schulson

…als lie to pollsters about their religious practices. None of this necessarily gets picked up over the phone, by a surveyor working through a scripted questionnaire. Gauging something as amorphous and context-rich as religiosity, within the framework of something as amorphous and vast as The Public, is difficult work. It’s even harder because The Public doesn’t like to answer its phones. Some people are more difficult to reach than others, such th…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…levels, but his basic character has not been besmirched with the degree of ill will, bordering on savagery, that has been seen in the past 12 years. The assault on Muhammad is not due to 9/11, but to the power of the image of ‘rage’, Muslim rage/outrage, that goes back to Lewis. This point of view finds Muslims exceptional not in their devotion to their Prophet but in their unwillingness to be modern and free. And this negative image of ‘Muslim ex…

Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee

By Eric C. Miller

…he cancer that had crawled across his body, had lain in bed at home with a phone against his ear while my pastor, who had called him from the pulpit, pointed a cordless phone toward the congregation; we all wept and sang him love songs as he lay dying. These are uniquely evangelical experiences that shaped me, that will always be a part of me. I still long for this kind of community—the kind that journeys together through all the peaks and valleys…