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TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition

By Michael Schulson

…ndees had to apply for spots. The chosen few get to schmooze, network, and listen to upwards of 60 original TED lectures, videos of which will then be posted online. The least popular can expect thousands of viewers. The most popular could hit upwards of 30 million. These aren’t exactly Justin Bieber numbers, but for 18 minute-long lectures about science, management, creativity, design, and technology, they’re extraordinary. The TED brand has beco…

A Seminary for Nonbelievers: Is A. C. Grayling Creating His Own Religion?

By Jessica Weisberg

…omes down to. You just don’t collect stamps. So how can you be a fundamentalist non-stamp collector? It’s like sleeping furiously. It’s just wrong.” The New College of the Humanities “is not an atheist institution,” Grayling and other spokespeople for the university have stated repeatedly. But it’s hard to imagine Richard Dawkins soft-pedaling on the topic of religion. Grayling insists that he’s not as vehement as his colleague. “I’m the velvet ve…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he publication, including words of encouragement directed at the activists listed who ventured into the Citizen‘s comment board. In fact, at press time, there was not a single comment supporting the list on the first page of comments at the paper’s own site. Cuba: Pride celebration includes symbolic mass wedding Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raul Castro, sponsored a gay pride march in Havana last weekend that included a symbolic wedding ce…

Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…it adds the unhinged culture war agenda of the far Right to the mix. Scott promotes a long list of drastic changes to the fabric of US society: in line with the Right’s attack on public education, schools will be forced to teach American exceptionalism and the public education sector would be diminished, as would the federal Department of Education. Scott justifies the latter with the “states’ rights” rhetoric that the Right still uses to paint ov…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…be digital confessionals, virtual booths for expressing fears and desires. Listening to a podcast is itself an intimate experience, not unlike being third party to a personal conversation. The Runners Up in this category are both known for using humor to explore otherwise difficult experiences. RISK! by Kevin Allison asks people to “tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public,” and it has quickly become the podcast of recor…

Op-Ed: Rev. Wright and the Church-State Divide

By Ira Chernus

…uestion of what Obama’s pastor did or did not say would be so far down the list of campaign issues that no one would ever notice it. Since unreason prevails, and boosts media ratings handsomely, the manufactured “controversy” over Rev. Wright eclipses war, economic collapse, climate chaos, and a long list of other genuinely urgent concerns. Beyond the general principle that people vote largely from the “reptilian brain” down, there is a more speci…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…f the book he almost acts like one. All of which is to say that a laundry list of errors doesn’t get to the meat of Darwin’s Doubt. Meyer is the finest kind of huckster: he doesn’t tell lies, he merely rearranges truths. Darwin’s Doubt is a toxic blend of hasty conclusions, cracked arguments, and terminological confusions. It’s also, for those who are keeping count, a New York Times bestseller. More plausible than the arguments of 6,000-year-old-…

After Greece, Humanists Launch Push for Secular Invocations

By Sarah Posner

…rom which to choose people to deliver prayers, they are making available a list of individuals who are able to deliver an invocation from a secular or atheist perspective. From the group’s statement: The Supreme Court’s ruling, authored by Justice Kennedy, makes clear that local governments must make “reasonable efforts to identify all of the congregations located within its borders” and welcome an invocation by anyone who wishes to give one, rega…

Updated: 5 Lessons Learned from the Apocalypse Fail, Or, It’s Not the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel So-So

By Gary Laderman

…tream). Terry Jones is one recent example with his attack on Islam but the list is long and includes such figures as Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and Jerry Falwell. 2. The Christian fundamentalists are not alone in this religious obsession. In fact, most religions project end-of-the world scenarios. Taking a step back from the current focus on Camping and thinking more comparatively, it is clear that most religious movements and communities incorp…

Beliefnet’s Oscars

By Gabriel Mckee

…hyperbolic, but I didn’t see much spirituality in Smith’s atheistic survivalist. One gets the sense that this film won the People’s Award in this category not because of its intrinsic spirituality, but simply because more voters had seen I Am Legend than Into the Wild. There are fewer obvious puzzlers in the Best Spiritual Film category, but there are some glaring omissions. Juno and Atonement made the list, but where are There Will Be Blood and D…