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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

…have about 20 Republican and Democratic front-runners who have received political endorsements or significant national attention. In the second, you have the remaining 1,200 candidates who, according to the Atlantic, are essentially passionate, quirky people who want to be heard. That includes local yahoos, religious fundamentalists, and fictional characters (with online filing, you’re bound to get a “Deez Nuts”), but there are also savvy activist…

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

By Drew Konow

…e that she was keeping a close eye as the waters rose in her area. The possibility of destruction has a strange way of inspiring reflection on personal property. On the phone, I told my mom, “I love your house. It is so perfect for you.” And I do. I love her house not because I grew up there (I did not) or because I’ve spent much time there (I’ve only visited once) or because of anything to do with the way it looks. I love her house because of wha…

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

By Peter Laarman

What does it mean that a quarter of all Americans “describe their religion as ‘nothing in particular‘”? In her newest book, The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers and Those in Between, Kaya Oakes ventures deep into the territory of the so-called “nones,” the ever-growing segment of the population that refuses religious affiliation. But as Oakes relates, in a series of compelling narrative accounts drawn from interviews, tho…

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

By Chad Bauman

…buzzed its way through the narrow, winding streets of the ancient city. Arriving at the hostel on the banks of the Ganges, we were surprised to find that around a dozen other travelers—mostly Europeans and Japanese—sat patiently in chairs, waiting to find out whether there might be room for them as well. I wondered how we had managed to get a room while all these other people waited. As if sensing my question, and after checking us in, the Hindu p…

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

By David Krueger

…a, but across the United States. In the aftermath of 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…

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…ke to do anything, much less something, much less something serious about rising sea levels are trying to accept serenity. The people who are fed up and on the outside are much more ready to get serious. They, like the people inside, have grandchildren. As I write there are 100 more decisions to be made by the decision makers. Most have to do with what the first world polluters will pay in repentance and compensation for warming the planet. They a…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…plan as similar to FDR’s internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. This statement and the crowds of Trump supporters cheering for him have finally struck a chord in the US public sphere. The other candidates have called him out with House Speaker Paul Ryan clarifying how Trump’s ban on Muslims is “not what the [Republican] Party stands for.” While it is the Republican Party’s responsibility to extend this critique into unequivocal oppo…

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

By Andrew Aghapour

…al world have so many things that others don’t—refrigerators, televisions, iPhones—and that’s completely true, but what that misses is that those don’t provide meaning for you. Ironically, those things might communicate to people that the world is moving on without them. How does religion, as an “overarching system of meaning,” help the disenfranchised? I think that when somebody has a strong moral system of meaning, it’s easier to cope with setba…

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ces. In every generation, someone new comes along to explain how all of religion exists in order to satisfy this one particular human need. The 16 Strivings For God: The New Psychology of Religious Experiences Steven Reiss Mercer University Press (January, 2016) According to nineteenth-century anthropologist Edward B. Tylor, religion arose to satisfy our curiosity about the universe. James Frazer later argued that, rather, religion indulges humani…

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

By Jesse James DeConto

Matt Morris just might be the ultimate archetype of postmodern spirituality. He’s a cradle Episcopalian who became one of American neo-Paganism’s most famous voices, only to return to the Episcopal church, where he served briefly as a parish music minister in Portland, Oregon. Of late, he’s been investigating Quaker spirituality. Morris’ religious wandering as what he calls a “minor-league celebrity” has played out in cyberspace and on the pages…