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Editor’s Picks: Remembering the Broken Promises — and the Possibilities — on Independence Day

By The Editors

…ant to serve. These are questions RD has sought to address over the years, questions that remain as relevant—again, for better and certainly for worse—as when we published our first piece in February of 2008. As we approach another historic election, the editors have hand-picked a selection of July 4 pieces from the archives. So give them a read before you put the chicken on the grill or blow anything up. But however you choose to spend it, have a…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…he implored. [As of the end of August a compromise had been reached, but 73-year-old activist Anna Hazare has said the battle is only half won. -Eds.] “Prisoners Threatened to Kill the Teachers, But They Kept the Session Going” Bedi, who has embraced a variety of religious influences in her life, from Christianity to Hinduism to Sikhism, relies on Vipassana, a nonsectarian Buddhist meditation practice known more commonly as “insight meditation”: V…

Religion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…s to the Yemeni al Qaeda, there is no evidence that they were sent by some higher authority in the organization to commit this crime. The details of the background and motives of Said and Cherif Kouachi are not yet clear—as it turns out, religion per se might not have been a primary motivation. The brothers Kouachi were hardly saints. In fact, they were scarcely religious. They were raised in a secular household and their youth was filled with pet…

The Accidental Worshiper: Following the Music

By Tripp Hudgins

…te band was like going to a cathedral for worship. In this analogy, concert-going becomes pilgrimage, and dance (and even drugs) become spiritual practice. Indeed, as the author of Revelation writes, the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel…or something like that. I don’t mean to be flip, but I do want to address this phenomenon with some humor. Religious people can be very protective of…

The Case Against Rebuilding Notre Dame

By Jay Rubenstein

…ater, as the cathedral canons (the community of clerics who oversaw the day-to-day operation of the cathedral), grew more prominent, it was dedicated to both Stephen and Mary. The bishop preferred Stephen; the clerics, Mary. The clerics won that battle of names, but the fight goes on. The sculptures above the doorway in the north transept of the cathedral, which led to the canons’ residence, depicts the life of the Virgin; those above the south tr…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…ks, who was later on taking on bigger subjects using surreal and political comedy. I realized coming out of Bill Hicks that I’ve got to take on bigger subjects. I’m not trying to educate but I’m encouraging and informing. How do you respond to those who say, if you don’t believe in God, then you can’t have a good sense of right and wrong? This implies you need the invisible bloke to tell you how right and wrong happens. There’s no proof of that b…

Are Creationist Beliefs Too Extreme for Creationists?

By Paul Wallace

…down deep their roots converge. The same spirit of curiosity that animated Newton, animated Darwin. It is this spirit of inquiry that is at issue, not certain showpieces of scientific end-product. But it is unthinkable for Ham or the Discovery Institute to publicly reject “the spirit of inquiry,” so they focus — as they do so often — on externals, and wind up accepting only self-selected pieces of science. They are caught in the trap of idolizing…

Don’t Believe the Hype (About Believing): You Don’t Need Religion to be Happy

By Chrissy Stroop

…on is an exvangelical, told RD that the additional consideration of “person-to-context fit” in the work of Pöhls, Schlösser, and Fechtenhauer represents “an important addition.” Expanding on that comment, Grubbs clarified, “Finding that religion versus non-religion is not particularly related to life satisfaction once you account for the context of the country is a powerful argument against the notion that, universally speaking, religion is a bene…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…early twentieth century black churches as heirs to an “otherworldly,” “pie-in-the-sky” gospel are certainly overblown, the idea of the black church as a refuge often translated to an emphasis on survival over organized struggle—the involvement of black churches in the civil rights movement was far from inevitable. King repackaged dominant theologies and recovered those that were rooted in discourses of reconciliation, justice, and nonviolence. Ma…

Fed. Court Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional

By Peter Montgomery

…d to the US Supreme Court. Today’s ruling states: All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples the right to be granted marriage licenses and thus legally to use the designation of ‘marriage,’ which symbolized state legitimization and societal recognition of their committed relationships. Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in Califo…