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‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…o, you have i360, which is a Koch platform as well, with voter data. And a lot of this is used in 2016, a lot of it’s being used now under various names. But the CNP has a larger agenda, which is to change the Constitution of the United States. These are all just tools for what you refer to as culture wars, to fundamentally change the country. CK: When this election is finished, and we’re in the big ambiguous period of deciding what happens next,…

The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe

By Michael Schulson

…at creationism is. So we don’t have a lot of creationism, but we do have a lot of anti-GMO resistance. There are quite a lot of similarities between the two positions. What do they share? It’s about intuitive expectations that we have, apparently, about how nature functions. Research in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and anthropology shows that we have a predisposition to think about organisms as having an essence: they have an im…

“LGBT People Have a Lot to Teach Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…look like that anymore and maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe all the waning numbers will force us to ask, “What does it mean to be a successful church?” I think it means practicing those sacraments and creating that community. How did you get started blogging and are you surprised by the immense community of followers you’ve amassed over the years? I started because I always wanted to write a book. I was a writer even as a kid. This is all I ever w…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…edicine because medicine is done by people. And, yes, a small but non-zero number of instances of employees knowingly doing things they shouldn’t—which lots of people already knew about because those incidents have been thoroughly shouted about on the internet. The conspicuously unasked question is: Is there any positive reason to think there’s a bigger problem here that would be helped by more investigation? Hypothetically, if regular governme…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…3.2 million new adherents and “folk religions” (these tend to be small in number and tied to a particular people group or tribe) are likely to see gains of 2.6 million during the same time period. Such numbers are miniscule compared to the projected 61.5 million expected to switch into the “unaffiliated” category by 2050, nevertheless the 197% projected growth rate should turn more than a few heads. Something is causing people to be attracted to…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with sur…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…orror. It’s not that there isn’t a lot of bad horror out there—there is, a lot of horror is aesthetically void and/or morally despicable—but there’s also excellent stuff, horror novels and horror films that are just as accomplished, just as artful, as critically celebrated mainstream literature and film. Leaving the good stuff out of the picture and condemning or ignoring a whole genre, as some critics and scholars do, is just ridiculous. It’s nar…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Supporters, said that “there was a lot of anger, a lot of disappointment among women and LGBT students and faculty.” “I’m training in ministry because I believe that regardless of your theological position you are worthy of dignity. However, that doesn’t mean your exclusionary values won’t go unchallenged.” He went on further to say he felt Merritt mischaracterized the student group’s effort. The signatories…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…d her six-month-old while she pillaged through a sea of clothing. That’s a lot of holding, trust me. When we finally returned to her place, I was hungry, but I just could not take another moment of being so family-oriented. I decided I would rather brace the rush-hour traffic and eat at home than to stay one minute longer. So of course when she asked if I would hold the baby for ten minutes while she picked up quickly and loaded the dishwasher, I…

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…ry of Paris has contrasted weirdly with the apocalypses being discussed. A lot of humor joins a lot of great slogans. Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s came out with a new ice cream, “Save our swirl.” All along the Champs Elysée you can ride a bicycle or swing on a swing to charge the lights along the way. Sponsored by IKEA and a dozen other corporations, the street is fun and the tourists and their children are enjoying the ride. They are probably spe…