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Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum

By Julie Ingersoll

…ystem.” The “textbook” and a seminar based upon it are still available for sale on NCCS website (the book currently available may be an expurgated version but the original edition is available on Amazon.) These self-styled watchdogs of education (with a pretty clear anti-education agenda) are capitalizing on severe budget constraints in every state. Their aggressive campaign to make available seemingly innocuous materials so schools can comply wit…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…. Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s Bible is for sale. The one of a kind book carries a $1.5 million price tag and includes unique genealogical notes about the Smith family. A group of American Muslim leaders have made a YouTube video denouncing militancy. And Islamic feminists are staging “pray-ins” at various mosques in protest against the separation of women during services. Pilgrims using GPS keep missing Lourdes and…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ory.” One wonders whether the proliferation of unsorted images—on our smartphones and in proprietary clouds—might undermine our ability to let go of the past and construct more meaningful long-term memories. More than a mere problem of accuracy in storage and retrieval, memory requires the skillful exercise of selective judgment. It requires meaningful participation in decisions about what and how to remember, as well as what and how to forget. Th…

Ping-Pong Politics After Underwear Bomber

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…We also intend to engage in very frank and unapologetic profiling, based on country of origin, and at least implicitly, on religious affiliation. Ping: liberty. Pong: security. In this case, pong trumps ping, and our diminished civil liberties will be further mortgaged to make the sale. We know the reason why ping pong is not a good spectator sport. Among its elite practitioners, the ball moves so fast that the public eye can scarcely follow. Tha…

No Time for Casual Faith: The First Unitarian Woman Elected President on our Urgent Moment

By Peter Laarman

…eport using the “Side With Love” resources we provide, but an even greater number—75%—report that they are engaging or have engaged with #BlackLivesMatter or are doing other racial justice advocacy work. Which is not to say that every congregation works on every issue. Context matters. In some locations climate justice or immigration might be of paramount importance, and no one is going to fault congregations in those places for throwing down on…

Palestinian Orthodox Christians, Desperate for Help, Have Caught the Attention of Russia

By Katherine Kelaidis

…e, took control of part of the Petra Hotel in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, drawing criticism from the city’s Christian leaders including the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, who leads Israel’s largest Christian community and whose church owns the seized hotel. The vast majority of Christians in Israel are Palestinian Arabs, although they make up a small minority among Palestinians as a whole. Their status as a minority with…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…also calls himself a “best-selling author,” though the books available for sale consisted exclusively of self-published materials (indeed Federer’s own company, Amerisearch, published What Every American Needs To Know About the Qur’an, the book on which the lecture was based.) Federer’s argument reflects the broader shari’ah conspiracy theory cottage industry (examined in detail earlier this month by Sarah Posner) that Americans need to be vigilan…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…ards. I would ride my bike through our suburb’s streets hunting for garage sale stereos, which I would haul like a little Viking raider back to my room to pillage for parts. What the resistors, transistors, capacitors, diodes and wires were parts for, well, I was still figuring that out, but mining and collecting and imagining various useful futures for them—a powerful laser weapon or a spy listening device?—was a serious passion. These objects al…

Mayday’s Demise and the Rise of our Gloomy Empire

By Ed Simon

…Morton and his “crew of Comus,” but in 1628 he couldn’t ignore the poet’s sale of arms to the Algonquin, his flagrantly libertine colony, or his latest Maypole, this time with poems dedicated to Neptune, Triton, Hymen and Priapus affixed to its side (among the earliest of English language poetry in America). And so, Miles Standish was dispatched, the Maypole was cut down, and Morton was sent in chains back to an England on the verge of civil war….

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…s counterculture. The federal government criminalized the use, possession, sale, and cultivation of these drugs, though many continued to use them both recreationally and sacramentally. To honor the latter, Ruck created the word entheogen by combining the Greek word “entheos,” often translated as “god within,” with “gen” from the word hallucinogen. The term has grown in recent decades motivated by several factors. Chief among them is what activist…