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“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…life forms far more advanced than us in the universe just given the sheer numbers. Given how close we are to developing artificial intelligence right now, it’s also easy to think that another species did that on a planet somewhere far away and changed the universe. Given the fact that we’ll have A.I. in two hundred years that will potentially be a million times smarter than us, it could expand through the universe very quickly. I wrote this artic…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…ise. Many have begun to criticize the lack of coverage or attention to the floods in Louisiana. These are 1,000-year floods, covering an area larger than Delaware, affecting more than 40,000 homes. This is sure to be an ongoing disaster—triggering transportation, housing, public health, and financial crises. So, many ask: “Where is the media coverage, the public awareness, the national attention?” In launching these critiques, some have contrasted…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…pocrisy-plagued version of the black church that younger generations see reflected in their communities, as well as in the media, has led younger generations to rethink religion. However, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2007 and 2012 reports, black millennials ages 18-29 comprise 20% of historically black churches. This number is roughly comparable to that of the baby boomer generation. Thus, religious affiliation for young black adults doe…

“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)

By Chad Bauman

…aside and quietly told us that he had detected our American accents on the phone, and had given us the room instead of others because “Americans hate Muslims, too.” Still today, when I travel in India, Hindus presupposing my agreement frequently make off-handed and derogatory comments about their Muslim neighbors. For those concerned about the effectiveness of the United States’ advocacy for religious freedom around the world, the perception that…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…f the shootings at two military installations in Tennessee, the owner of a Florida gun shop declared his store a “Muslim-free zone” and he continues to sell Mohammed targets on his website. In October, a group calling itself the “Global Rally for Humanity” organized protests at dozens of mosques throughout the U.S. Since the attacks in Paris, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has described anti-Muslim sentiment as “unprecedented” and docum…

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…e a caucus proposed a stop fracking resolution. We spent hours on national phone calls debating when fracking should be stopped. We finally proposed 2030 as the last fracking date. It was a compromise after many “brackets,” what COP21 calls the matters that are kept in that famous parking lot where we put the things we don’t know how to decide. The Synod amended our so-called radical proposal and unanimously passed 2017 as the final date. We were…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…with random dining-table things like a wooden fruit bowl, a few artificial flowers, half a bottle of Sprite, and some phone chargers. The two smaller images feature the cluttered interior of a walk-in closet with a bunch of clothes and a faint family portrait on the wireframe shelf, and something that will be familiar to anyone with a newborn child: a rocking seat next to a pink and yellow baby mat. With the caption “A Home Revealed,” the audience…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…inherently good. I guess ultimately we all have to be not only very self-reflective, but also reflective of the larger context in which we’re behaving. At some level, the message of my book is a call to readers to ask, “Where am I placed? Where did my moral system come from, and how do I feel about that?” While researching this book, was there anything that surprised you? I’m a sociologist, so I see everything as socially constructed: your system…

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

…er myself to be secular and spiritual. I don’t think there’s such a big conflict between science and spirituality. The point of conflict would be presenting competing understandings; even within science you have competing theories. As the book shows, religion is extremely broad and so is spirituality. It’s not just one thing. I’m writing as a psychologist, and 90 percent of psychologists believe that religion is about the fear of death. Other than…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…in Timberlake among them. After high school, he moved to Nashville and briefly attended the Southern Baptists’ Belmont University before launching a successful songwriting career, crafting major league hits. He tried some of his schoolmates’ evangelical and Pentecostal churches before landing at the Episcopal Christ Church Cathedral. But as a gay man, Morris wearied of Christian conversations about sexuality that have raged in the new millennium….