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Via Jokes, ChatGPT Chooses Which Religious Traditions and Figures Deserve Respect — And Therefore What Counts as ‘Religion’

By Robert M. Geraci

…are—or are at least widely understood to be—historical individuals. So to test this hypothesis, I went to ChatGPT and I tried using an actual person from the Hindu community (Swami Vivekananda) and a generic term for god (i.e., “god”). It would, I found, tell a joke about “god” but not about “Vivekananda” (although this wasn’t due to religious sensibilities, but rather to a generic resistance to the potential mockery of any individual.) I then tr…

As Psychedelics Experience a Renaissance, Emory’s New Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality Seeks a Novel Approach

By Hollis Phelps

…PS dubs itself the “world’s first center to fully integrate clinical and research-based expertise in psychiatry and spiritual health to better understand the therapeutic promise of psychedelic medicines.” While most of the existing centers in the United States take narrower approaches, either choosing to focus on the scientific study of psychedelics or training clinicians and chaplains in psychedelic-assisted therapies, the ECPS promises to take a…

If There’s any Retaliation at Next Month’s EuroPride Festival in Serbia it’s Likely to Have Orthodox Clerical Blessing

By Katherine Kelaidis

…of two children born to a gay couple. Antagonism toward LGBTQ people has become a litmus test of a certain kind of traditionalism within the Orthodox world and the issue at the center of a battle over Orthodoxy and modernism that’s had wide-reaching consequences—far beyond the Orthodox Church. While it might be easy to correlate the uptick in anti-LGBTQ hatred within global Orthodoxy with the influence of American evangelical Christianity, it’s un…

Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value

By Rhiannon Graybill and Jill Hicks-Keeton

…again directed toward supporting the interests of men. Take Simon’s mother-in-law, for example (Mark 1:29-31), or the woman with a flow of blood (Mark 5:25-34). Jesus accepts service from women without fundamentally changing their status in a patriarchal social order (e.g., Mark 14:3-9; 15:40). In the gospel of John (7:53-8:11), Jesus saves an “adulteress” from being stoned, all the while working with and extending the patriarchal constructs that…

If Kirill’s Bizarre Sermon Blaming War on Pride Parades Comes as a Surprise, it’s Time to Learn the History

By Katherine Kelaidis

…e familiar with the Russian Orthodox Church. This sermon is the natural outcome of rhetoric coming out of the Patriarchate of Moscow, not only over the past decade, but over the past five centuries as well. In recent times, Patriarch Kirill and Vladimir Putin have worked diligently to position the Russian Orthodox Church, and by extension Russia, as leader of the Global Christian Right. And thanks largely to American evangelicals, anti-LGBTQ rheto…

In His ‘Forgiveness Day’ Sermon — a Slightly More Sophisticated ‘GloboHomo’ Rant — Kirill Lays Out an Authoritarian Vision in Which His Version of God Might Dominate and Rule the Human Race

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…h salvation—political and spiritual—is framed in the fascist language of us-versus-them. With this sermon, Kirill has laid bare to the watching world his ideological bent, his vision for the future—one of traditionalism, purity, and Russian authoritarianism. As a scholar who studies far-right American converts to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), I was not shocked by Kirill’s sermon. In fact, I was waiting for it. Converts to…

Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’

By Andrew L. Seidel

…s despite the arguments of the “pro-life,” anti-vaxx, anti-mask crowd. The new anti-vaxxing lawsuit claims, among other things, that the District of Columbia’s law allowing children to be vaccinated without the knowledge of their parents or against the wishes of their parents, violates their parents’ religious freedom. The rule only applies to vaccines recommended by the CDC. Children can choose to get a safe, recommended vaccine. The right of the…

The Bishops Did Send a Message with Their Vote on Biden and Communion; Are We Sure It Was The One They Intended?

By Daniel Schultz

…from the Vatican and their own laity. They’ll wind up releasing something high-minded and abstract about the beauty of the sacrament and first principles and the cause of the ‘unborn’ and the need for church discipline and obedience, dammit—and then everyone will politely ignore it. I suspect that on some level, that’s really okay with the conservative bishops: the vote sent their message just fine. For the rest of the Catholic church, not so muc…

Bishops’ Attempt to Deny Communion to Biden Will Backfire Even More Spectacularly Than Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage

By Mary E. Hunt

…heir quest. But whether they can muster a large enough majority on the anti-side of the communion wars is less clear. What makes the possibility more remote is that a strong voice against the reality of Catholic diversity is the same San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore James Cordileone who fell on his pectoral cross against same-sex marriage. That was a similarly ill-fated attempt to persuade Catholics that they could not in good conscience support…

Alabama Yoga Debate Focusing on the Wrong Question

By Candy Gunther Brown

…yoga is a form of “orthodox Hindu philosophy” by means of which “the human-soul (jivatman) unite[s] with the universal-soul (paramatman).” Yet, Zed now argues that yoga will do nothing to promote Hinduism? Regardless of how Alabama resolves its latest bout on yoga, it seems unlikely that controversies over yoga—or the often-paired practice of mindfulness meditation—will disappear any time soon. Indeed, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACL…