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

By Michael Schulson

…psychologist at Harvard, where she studies how people judge others and themselves. Eighteen minutes into her TED lecture, Cuddy almost starts crying, and it feels totally natural. You don’t think Why is this Harvard researcher choking up during a talk about her scientific research? You think, Hey, she’s talking about that feeling of being an impostor, and gosh, I’ve been there too! Cuddy’s lecture describes how a two minute-long posture exercise “…

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

…nction, and instead resembles religious rituals from humanity’s archaeological past. This isn’t the first discovery of animal behavior resembling religion. Elephants and dolphins, for example, have burial rituals for their dead. More importantly, if animals were conclusively shown to have religion, this would represent yet another blow to the longstanding notion that humans are, somehow, fundamentally different from other animals. Octopi use tools…

Sympathy for the Devils: I Was a Pastor to Trump Supporters

By Daniel Schultz

…se were the people who got screwed over by job offshoring, or by technological advances that always seemed to result in three people doing the work of five. Their town developed entire industries, only to see them leave for greener pastures. Some members of the congregation developed asbestosis from working in aluminum and flooring plants, or other health problems from the demands of their jobs. Most of the congregation had grown up in a densely-p…

Is Downward Dog the Path to Hell?

By Andrea R. Jain

…afraid. Yoga isn’t just about physical fitness and reduced stress. Evangelical leaders are increasingly warning that yoga is religious, though not in a good way, and that Christians must choose between Christianity and yoga. This view shot to mainstream attention recently when Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, warned Christians against the sin of yoga in a blog post that made headlines. But his comments were fa…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…iversity with Clayborne Carson, George Fredrickson, Sylvia Wynter, Mark Mancall, Arnie Eisen, and Tudor Parfitt. A chance encounter led me to visit the Original Hebrew Israelites of Dimona, Israel, and the experience was so powerful that I set out to study the antecedents of Black Israelite movements. At that time, Shlomo Levy, a Columbia University graduate student who was himself the son of one of the leading figures of the New York Israelite co…

Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

…that Lisa Kennedy Montgomery has finished comparing figures from the political Right to bands from the days when she was an MTV VJ known simply as “Kennedy.” Ron Paul is like Nirvana, she says, Rand Paul is like Pearl Jam, and Ted Cruz is, in many ways, like Stone Temple Pilots. Gen-Xers will perhaps appreciate the reference points. But it’s tough to buy Kennedy, now a libertarian and Republican, as a herald of the political future. Even if you ha…

Is Buddhism Opposed to Self-Defense?

By M. Sophia Newman

Twenty years after the murder of Mia Zapata inspired a self-defense movement in Seattle, Indians are responding to a widely-reported gang-rape case in Delhi by joining similar violence prevention courses. Only they’re doing so over the advice of religious opponents, who echo a famous Indian guru: the Buddha. On July 7, 1993, Mia Zapata, lead singer for up-and-coming Seattle band The Gits, left a bar to walk home alone at 2 A.M. She never arrived….

A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…congregation I had attended for nine years, and to add new charges of physical and sexual abuse by pastors, as well as allegations of abuse on church property. From what I’d seen inside Sovereign Grace and Covenant Life from 1996–2005, the alleged abuse seemed almost predictable—the result of the group’s toxic teachings on parenting, gender, and sexuality. Sovereign Grace is a U.S.-based church-planting network (they say “family”) of predominantly…

Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…e hosts tech royalty alongside media mavens like Arianna Huffington and Russell Simmons. Eyes may close for a meditation session, but a different ritual, perhaps even older, is perpetually enacted: see and be seen. A couple of years ago, in a headline-making action, protesters leapt on the conference stage and unfurled a banner demanding an “eviction-free San Francisco.” The protestors were talking about physical displacement, but I’d argue that a…

6 Words Not in RNC Autopsy: Christian, Religion, Abortion, Marriage, Jesus, God

By Sarah Posner

…ary process that saw Mitt Romney get battered for months ahead of the general election. The committee also proposes major improvements to the party’s voter database and digital technology, which paled next to that of the Democrats and contributed to the party’s losses last year. The suggestions are among dozens the committee makes in what RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has dubbed an “autopsy” of the party’s 2012 failures and a roadmap forward. Priebu…