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Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

A young Tibetan lama, recognized by the Dalai Lama as the 17th Karmapa, a top spot in the Tibetan religious hierarchy of reincarnated leaders, has been caught up for the past month in a surprising scandal. But the real interest of it is not the crime the Karmapa and his community were accused of (warehousing Chinese money in monks’ dwellings) but why the Indian government, host to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leadership, chose to target him. For many…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…ath of Eros,” which makes an entirely secular (and frankly tired) argument against equality between the sexes. While I might suspect that religious commitments are lurking in the silent background of his motivations, they have no apparent influence on his rationale or rhetoric. He relies instead on the authority of social science, to the exclusion of Christian or any other theological authorities. The purpose of his article is to address a horribl…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…ly awkward address to the children from the Truman Balcony, the president managed to create both a bizarre visual tableau and a transcript that rivaled his cringeworthy speech to the Boy Scouts. Flanked by the miserable-looking First Lady and the comically aghast Easter Bunny, Trump spoke to the children about the booming economy and the “$700 billion going into our military”—not topics usually favored by the kindergarten set. He also seemed to fo…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…ds of draft files in the parking lot outside, using a recipe for homemade napalm that they’d found in the Anarchist’s Cookbook. This was no generic moral protest, but a specifically Catholic denunciation of the Vietnam War. Certainly, in this, they drew on the church’s social encyclicals (especially Pacem in Terris, which articulated the Church’s default pacifism) and on the protest lineage of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers. As the cameras r…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…ds of draft files in the parking lot outside, using a recipe for homemade napalm that they’d found in the Anarchist’s Cookbook. This was no generic moral protest, but a specifically Catholic denunciation of the Vietnam War. Certainly, in this, they drew on the church’s social encyclicals (especially Pacem in Terris, which articulated the Church’s default pacifism) and on the protest lineage of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers. As the cameras r…

In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…ention of the printing press. Guttenberg’s device spread the news of said marathon throughout Alsace, the Rhineland, and the Low Countries, in turn inspiring new flares of this psychic contagion. The past is sometimes configured as an alien land; easy to approach the strange doings, ideas, and people of centuries long gone as a demonstration of the undeniable strangeness of our ancestors, the better by which to favorably compare ourselves. We shou…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…n when you charge people more than $30 for a single spin class, and still manage to sell out 60-person sessions. The spiritual and the financial can coexist, of course, and SoulCycle will be testing its model even more in the coming months. Highly profitable and growing fast, the company recently began proceedings for an initial public offering. In doing so, SoulCycle is gambling that people outside of New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (whi…

Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

By Willie James Jennings

…ery first old world (proto-European) citizen stepped on the shores of Africa and the Americas and other soon-to-be-colonized places and said, “God has given this land and these people to me. This is mine.” The belief in God-given possession flows like a vampire virus through the veins of this country. We eagerly draw lifeblood from as much of the world as possible, in land, natural resources, and cheap labor. What does it mean to be born in a plac…

Is the Satanic Temple Just an Elaborate Prank? 10 Questions for the Author of ‘Speak of the Devil’

By Joseph Laycock

What inspired you to write Speak of the Devil? I started writing on The Satanic Temple for Religion Dispatches back in 2013. What most fascinated me about them was that they were taking hypothetical scenarios that had long existed in policy debates such as, “What if Satanists wanted to lead prayer in public school?” and then they were actually doing them. It reminded me of the George Bernard Shaw quote that, “All progress depends on the unreasona…

How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s. (Patricia Heaton, the star from Everybody Loves Raymond who once won an award from Feminists [!!] for Life, tweeted a whole series of insulting tips for “G-Town Gal,” which were SO FUNNY!) Ha ha! Oh, stop, my sides hurt! Obviously I’m being sarcastic. Name-calling, slut-shaming, and bullying a woman is a nasty (not to mention obvious and overdone) thing to do. On the other hand, if you are inclined to shame and harass women, thanks to what I ca…