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

By Michael Schulson

…tirely 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 centu…

Sex, Violence, Art, and Religion

By Kent L. Brintnall

…ve, generative ethical and political polemic, with a raw beauty and fierce wit. I also wish I’d written Dennis Cooper’s My Loose Thread. It’s one of the most haunting novels I know. And I’ve long nurtured the fantasy of being a novelist. And the Hunger Games trilogy. For the cash, and the opportunity to meet Kristin Chenoweth. What’s your next book? I’m currently trying to decide if my next project is one or two books and, if the latter, which sho…

Gay Marriage Opponents Running on Empty

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nt. The poll released last week from Public Religion Research Institute showing growing acceptance among people of faith for marriage equality in California along with national polls that have shown at least 65 percent of Americans support civil unions or full marriage equality would seem to spell trouble for NOM’s summer tour. Even in Indianapolis there was evidence of that expanding tent of religious supporters for marriage equality. Is the anti…

How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…Oakland hills, I fished in my bag for the tiny microphone I planned to use with my iPhone, to record our conversation. “Is that what you’re using?” he asked, with great interest. He held up his own phone. “I just got one of these. Will this really work?” He sat next to me on the couch as I pointed him through the app store on his phone. “There it is,” I said, pointing to iTalk. “That’s what I’m using.” He tapped the screen, but the app that came u…

What Can a Real Life Haunting Tell Us About American Religion? [Updated]

By Daniel Wise

…ponse to the haunting is in keeping with a type of spirituality she shares with an increasing number of Americans. She holds what some academics would call a form of metaphysical spirituality. Historian of American religion Catherine Albanese traces metaphysical religion or spirituality through New Age spirituality back through late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Theosophy and back to Spiritualism and Mesmerism. It’s a type of spirituality…

Conservative Rep Grills Oklahoma Personhood Sponsors

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ze embryos and some are destroyed, as routinely happens? And miscarriages: will they be investigated? Will they require coroner’s reports and death certificates? It’s entirely possible to think abortion is wrong, while still being bothered by the potential consequences of turning blastocyst-Americans into legal rights-bearing persons. But meanwhile, those who are most invested in getting a personhood bill passed won’t be pleased with any exception…

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

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ng the edge of the wood-and-brick interior was a ring of black café tables with fresh flowers. On one side of the room was a glass wall that afforded a view of gigantic ancient copper kettles and brewing machines. Folding chairs had been arranged in concentric circles radiating outward from an empty space in the middle; a hundred or so people milled about, friendly, excited to be there. There were long beards and shaved heads, T-shirts reading “Sp…

The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…nment over the people, not of the people. God deliver us from this kind of insanity.” I suspect a lot of observers of Perry’s theocratically-driven rise will use that last line many times, but with a very different intended meaning….

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…And yet when you look at the occasional major study of African Americans, with a large number of respondents and some white Americans for comparison purposes, the evidence suggests that African Americans are much more religious on average than white Americans in terms of how many hours in a given week they may spend at the church, or how important it is to them, or how often they see church friends, and so forth. That’s an example of white-normin…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more familiar with, the Roman alphabet. Say someone’s name was Vic. Each letter in his name is also a Roman numeral. V=5, I=1, C=100. Using gematr…