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In Time of Crisis Christians Must Reject Charlatans and Magical Thinking

By Brian Rainey

…ear dictate actions. It’s absolutely legitimate to respect the awesome destructiveness of this virus. But we need to react appropriately, listening carefully to those whose opinions are based on experienced analysis of data (CDC, WHO, respected epidemiologists), and not to social influencers, Tweets, and Facebook posts. Acting out of fear, which includes hoarding, often makes things worse both for ourselves and others. Ironically, some of the very…

Liberals Agree, Israel is Greatest Thing Since Sliced Challah

By Shalom Goldman

… review of Gershom Gorenberg’s The Unmaking of Israel in last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review section with this list of “the many things… Israel is not.” He does so, he writes, “in recognition of the fact that mere mention of Israel can send its critics into paroxysms of rhetorical excess seldom heard outside ESPN.” One wonders why there’s no mention of the paroxysms of rhetorical excess voiced by Israel’s apologists when any criticism of Isra…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…volunteer organizers, who continuously rushed to print more ballots after running out several times. In Utah, voting lines stretched around several city blocks, districts that were used to double-digit numbers were overwhelmed with thousands of participants, and the vast majority were adamant Sanders supporters. The night was unprecedented in the modern Mormon world. https://twitter.com/sltrib/status/710953531021221888 Close observers expected th…

Cone of Shame: A Spiritual Crisis in the Humanities

By Beatrice Marovich

…el dignified. But I think animals get it right: they eat, they sleep, they run around, and make nests and babies. I just want to be an animal.” At that moment—a bit exhausted by my troubled humanity—I couldn’t have agreed more. And yet, the line he seemed to be drawing (between a human who seeks abstract things like dignity and an animal who seeks the more tangible romp, or meal) is a false dichotomy. We humans are, today, animals like any other….

Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…le housing as a privilege, some LGBT homeless youth of color resort to destructive behaviors like survival sex and drug abuse. Demographic patterns have long shifted to make whites a minority in the United States. Yet mainstream media is still in the segregationist Ozzie and Harriet era when it comes to the realities of families of color, buttressing bankrupt social welfare policies that expose the sham of the Christian Right’s American “family” v…

God’s Obituary: A Humanist Response to Mass Murder

By Anthony B. Pinn

…for an easy life. No, it’s recognition that nothing explains away the destruction of life’s integrity; but instead it highlights the fact that we labor in this world without cosmic aid that can protect us from us. Appeals to free will (as my comments are bound to generate) might not be a limitation God imposes on God’s self. It may simply be a weak way of saying we are in control, or what the late William R. Jones—philosopher of religion—called t…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…r Lindevaldsen responded to RD’s requests for comment, but Staver told the New York Times last month that they had not had contact with Miller since 2009 and had always advised her to obey the law. Staver and Lindevaldsen did, however, teach their students that “civil disobedience” was a proper response, and persisted in their efforts to reverse court orders with relentless appeals claiming that court orders were in contravention of Miller’s Chris…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

The real Mormon moment is now. Now that the New York Times is confirming that at least a dozen Mormons nationwide have faced or are facing discipline for criticizing Church practices or policies or voicing support for same-sex marriage or women’s ordination on-line, on Facebook, on Twitter. Even in anonymous chat rooms. That the LDS Church supports what must be a substantial enterprise monitoring the on-line communications of its members—this is…

What’s Wrong With Atheist Lent?

By Vlad Chituc

…ss claim to the holiday than many other nonbelievers. A few years ago, The New York Times profiled a few atheists who were practicing Lent, and many of them were doing so because they had grown up Catholic and no longer believed. John Corvino, an atheist and author of What’s Wrong with Homosexuality?, grew up Catholic and appreciates Lent’s capacity for fostering self-discipline. But is it fair for me to practice something I never did as a child?…

What Does Satanism Have to do With QAnon?

By David Frankfurter

…tarker, more graphic worlds of conspiracy speculation. Indeed, as a recent New York Times op-ed argues, this anxious concern for children’s welfare, has invited the attention of increasing numbers of young women to the social-media culture inspired by QAnon and to the social media sites where QAnon conspiracies proliferate. The QAnon culture claims to reveal not only the Satanic motivations of those who supposedly do the trafficking, but even more…