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The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…not religious, and the art world is not religious. The people I came into contact with while shooting the images were all super friendly and excited about the project when I explained what I was doing. People I know who were raised in the church, but have since turned against it, were totally freaked out by it. They found it creepy. But in terms of actual religious people, I haven’t seen that much reaction yet or had those conversations. Are you…

Richard Land, Under Investigation for Plagiarism, Wages Religious Freedom War With Bishops

By Sarah Posner

…alifornia) Diocese told Kevin Clarke of America, “The bishops that I am in contact with in California are strong supporters of the importance of defending and strengthening religious liberty in our country,” but “I do think there are probably some different concerns with how it is being done.” Blaire “worried that some groups ‘very far to the right’ are trying to use the conflict as ‘an anti-Obama campaign.’” No kidding. Land, the ethically-challe…

What My Christian High School Taught Me About Being a Black Girl

By Carlyn Ferrari

…my teenage acne is on display. My head is turned to the side to avoid eye contact with the camera. I hated having my picture taken. Still do. I don’t remember the day this picture was taken, but I remember how I felt at fourteen: awkward, nervous, uncomfortable. My face is round and chubby and despite my baggy clothes, I can tell my body hasn’t left childhood behind. I look like a child. I was a child. * When I was fourteen my high school teacher…

Magic In the Daylight

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…what purpose and magic have to do with one another. If Sophie could really contact an unseen world of souls of the dead, it would certainly make death less final. But how would it make meaning out of this life? And what does God have to do with it? There are, of course, many religious traditions worldwide for which communicating with invisible spirits of some kind is a mainstay. Houdini would have had a hard time with the example of Quesalid, a sh…

LDS Church Launches New Website Calling for Greater Openness and Understanding on LGBT Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…gave him one week to move out of the house and instructed him to minimize contact with his five brothers and sisters. Cox stopped wearing his LDS garments and moved in with the first roommate he could find—the bartender at the local gay bar. Soon, he had a boyfriend, and along with his boyfriend, Cox was assaulted—gay bashed—in front of a Las Vegas club. He moved home to Montana, where he helped start the Montana Pride Foundation, organizing pa…

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…an women and children are either forced into—or choose to come into—sexual contact with religious outsiders who are also raced. The violation of a Betty Mahmoody [the author of Not Without My Daughter] also becomes the violation of the American body politic, because the white woman gets to stand in for us as a country. Her violation becomes our violation, and her escape, her resistance, gets to be our resistance and our resilience. The story provi…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…tor radio to my ear, early Christmas Eve morning, 1968. That’s when I lost contact with the three Apollo 8 astronauts as they disappeared into radio blackout during their 32-minute crossing of the far side of the Moon [video at the article’s end]. Back in ‘68 it was the sudden silencing of my heroes’ voices that caused a kind of spiritual embolism of the heart. This election season it’s the campaign racket of hate that takes my breath away. Forty…

Errol Morris’ Tabloid Sensationalizes Mormonism and ‘Cult’ Deprogramming

By David Mihalyfy

…adult members. What happens when adults over the age of consent come into contact with a foreign-seeming religious group like the Hare Krishnas and suddenly eschew their previous life and values? In such situations, those left behind frequently adopted the explanation of brainwashing: namely, that an inauthentic religious group deceptively ensnared the converts against the wishes of their true selves and kept them bound in abnormal patterns of be…

“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…d to convert to Christianity) and Christian converts to Islam “who came in contact with each other before and after the expulsion of the converts from Spain,” noting that “in common with several other texts written in these circles, it presents Muhammad as the messiah.” Most recently, Theodore Pulcini has made a case for its authorship by a medieval monk of the Carmelite order who had converted to Islam. Whatever its origins, the recent growth of…

Hajj Journal: Makkah as the Most Romantic City

By Amina Wadud

…g in the shops, or jammed in the tight lines to get food at the local restaurants. Nobody says to women to stay behind, keep out, or keep away. There is so much bodily contact a person could be mistaken for being at one with all humankind, and not a measurement of one’s gender….