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“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…ht be thirty years out, but it’s a radical change that many are spending a lot of money [researching]—Google specifically. We think that at some point in the future, people might want to have virtual avatars of themselves. If we had the Empire State Building filled with servers, we could potentially recreate all the neural connections of every single living person on earth. You could fit the entire species in one single building, and they could ju…

For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different

By Lynne Gerber

…eople little disposable communion kits and we had communion on the parking lot and blew our horns something fierce… you know, made a lot of noise.” Like all of us, these ministers are looking toward the time when science and medicine change the trajectory of the Covid epidemic. But they also remember the challenges that change can bring. One is the need to address the compounded grief and loss that can so easily be skipped over in the midst of cri…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…lebrities should check their privilege, too.” That got applause as well. A lot, as I recall. It’s really unfortunate that this has become a racial issue, especially when the occupiers have problems with outreach to some racial groups already. As one black left-wing journalist suggested in a conversation I took part in recently, it may be better understood as a problem of communication styles among different communities rather than active, albeit s…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…hese ideas correlate with reality? To find out, I say again: Get to know a number of highly intelligent, thoughtful Christians. Don’t go to the ones who talk a lot about hell or insist on converting you. The thoughtful ones are out there, I promise. With the Internet they’re not too hard to find and they live in every city and town in America. Ask as many questions of them as possible, and encourage them to ask as many questions as possible. Take…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nversation about marriage by pointing to a New Testament passage read at a lot of weddings, Ephesians 5, which relates the union of a man and a woman in marriage with the union of Christ and the church. That helps to bring out the core feature of what marriage is for, since Christ’s union with the church does not involve procreation. It’s about Christ’s sacrificial and covenantal love for us and that we are in covenant with God through Christ. It’…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…aks with the power of Christ and his word is final… yeah, really? I know a lot of Catholics, I know a lot of Catholic priests, I know a lot of Catholic bishops who’ll say, “I will listen to the pope but you know, sometimes he’s wrong, and I’m not going to follow if I feel like it’s wrong.” And of course Catholics are always talking about the primacy of conscience as their response— you went to Jesuit school and know the drill. But on that note, th…

“Nobody Is Innocent”: David Gushee on Sexual Ethics, Suffering, and Full Inclusion for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me a long time and I hope that my regret for the long journey is clearly communicated in the book. I am sorry it took me so long to put it all together. It’s like being in a movie where someone is trying to crack a safe and there’s six numbers and you have to get all six numbers right for the safe to open. I think that’s what’s happened for me. Finally, all six numbers came up and I was able to open the safe and I could see this in a new way. Tha…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…I know the the popularity of punk, amongst other genres, outside the Anglophone world. I think Mike’s book clearly speaks to a lot of people, but as fiction there is a comfortable level of distance. You are actually making the music, and that’s really the tension I want to explore. It’s one thing to utilize the genre, it’s another to inject it with themes related to Islam. I will be honest and say that I am surprised at how well your lyrical cont…

Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…start to look at the evidence for it, it falls apart. You realize there’s lots of cherry-picked data. But it’s a lot harder to get a good story out of something like, “Eat a lot of different things in moderation,” even if that’s probably better advice. Science is not great at constructing narratives. That’s its virtue and its downfall. Scientific inquiry has to divorce itself from what makes the best story, and science writers, myself included, a…

Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse

By Michael Schulson

…s? Before I started writing this, I had a bunch of friends who had kids. A lot of them are very open to debate. And so we went out on a number of occasions and had two or three drinks and talked about the ethics of having a kid. There are legitimate questions to be asked, just at an existential level, about whether it’s right to bring something into the world that will suffer—and also experience pleasure—but will suffer and eventually perish. Let’…