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Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…” units that would adapt to their environments while remaining in constant contact with their comrades. By the time Donald Rumsfeld took the helm at the Department of Defense, the words “network centric” were on every ambitious young officer’s lips. Bousquet names this fourth and final paradigm with the neologism “chaoplexic.” He makes it a primary task of his book to show that the US military remains more cybernetic—and less chaoplexic—than it li…

A Superhuman Spirituality: Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

By Beatrice Marovich

…arching for sweet bits of garbage? Sure we do—for now. The direct physical contact that most Americans today have with non-human animals is severely limited. There is no question that domesticated animals, like dogs, cats, and (the differently domesticated) rats exist in great abundance. We may not think about it much, but we can’t question the existence of animals such as cows and pigs that many of us eat. Perhaps, for most of us, there is little…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…ague this week to meet with donor partners, including with the Great Lakes Contact Group. He intends to discuss next steps in supporting the Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework peace process, including Angola’s facilitation of a regional dialogue during its chairmanship of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, implementation of the Nairobi Declarations, and Uganda’s alarming Anti-Homosexuality Law.” Uganda: Vatican Offici…

New Anti-Trans Strategies Floated at Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit

By Heron Greenesmith and Asia Korkmaz

…grandchildren, neighbor’s children, and any other kid they might come into contact with. In his words, “it doesn’t matter who the children are. Recognize you can disciple them.” [emphasis added] It doesn’t matter who the children are. Recognize you can disciple them. Teach them how to sanctifiedly reject their transgender peers, or recruit their transgender peers into evangelicalism through self-denial. Biblical worldview rhetoric isn’t new. But P…

The ‘Charlie Charlie Challenge’ and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters

By Joseph Laycock

…on scholar, it seems to me the appeal of the game is a desire for a direct contact with mysterious forces. Folklorist Bill Ellis has suggested that the Ouija board—an obvious forerunner to Charlie—is a kind of ritual in which adolescents test religious worldviews by provoking an encounter with the supernatural. This perspective allows us to understand how claims about the nature of the game affect its appeal. The decision to summon Charlie is not…

Capricology: Divine Madness

By Salman Hameed

…explanation—that Zoe has been playing with the dog in her search for human contact and so he turns to her with the ball, not knowing that he risks blowing her cover. I suppose this would suggest a dog owner who can’t resist their attachments to the pet, another signifier of the sentimentalization of the relations between humans and animals. Give the dog a bone! Salman Hameed___________ Apropos of Henry’s comment about the thin line that separate…

Former Navy Chaplain Worries Ending DADT will End “Gay Exorcisms”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…heir homosexuality due to religious and societal condemnation to come into contact with people like former Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt. Americans United notes that “Klingenschmitt claims he was drummed out of the Navy because he wanted to pray in the name of Jesus. In fact, he got tossed out for being insubordinate” as he violated military regulations forbidding servicemembers from wearing their uniforms to partisan events. His discharge f…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…Napoleon’s army invaded Egypt in 1798, the Muslim world’s moment of “first contact” with the modern West, its better-read officers would have known Condorcet’s Progress of the Human Mind. Published just three years earlier, it singled out Islam among the world’s religions as “the simplest in its dogmas, the least absurd in its practices, and the most tolerant in its principles.” Faith in progress was axiomatic for all of these thinkers, and they i…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…etensions to respectability. Since publishing this article, I have been in contact with members of the GCC and APU communities whose responses to my work were generally positive, but who also raised important concerns that I will address here, and that underscore the need for more investigative journalism covering evangelical schools. Grove City College: “Unraveling the Layers” According to class of 2011 GCC alum Eve (formerly known as Hännah) Ett…

Growing Up Cult: A Memoir of Life with Sri Chinmoy

By Brittany Shoot

…, my father’s sister, who is a devoted member as well, who also has had no contact with me or my parents for years. For legal or ethical reasons, did you wait until he had passed to publish your memoir? Sri Chinmoy died on October 11, 2007. I had sold my book to Random House in October 2006, so I was still in the process of writing the book when he passed away. Right from the start, the memoir had been scheduled to be released in April 2009. Some…