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Will Religion Solve the Obesity Crisis?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ausing me problems!”). The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) seems to manage self-control, by helping to regulate and evaluate choices. (“No to Chocolate Cake!”) These findings are still new, and brain imaging can only make large-scale generalizations, but the initial results are interesting. It seems that during tests of self-control, our ACC keeps firing, but our DLPFC fires less and less over time. In other words, we keep evaluating and a…

When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For

By Nelle Smith

…thing: it was the dissolution of a world. People who didn’t grow up in the American evangelical bubble often don’t realize what they’re demanding when they ask an evangelical to accept a fact that is contradicted by their church’s interpretation of the Bible. To those bought in—excepting, perhaps, that small demographic of Christians who identify as evangelical and are truly progressive—evangelicalism is not a collection of facts. It is an entire…

RDBook: Technology and Tradition: Carlson’s Indiscrete Image

By Nathan Schneider

…nything but closed. We are not fenced-off creatures that interact with and manage a universe outside us, whether it be a medieval monastery or a virtual reality machine. We know ourselves only through our relationships with the things of a universe that is mostly beyond comprehension, our own inventions included. The uncanny convergence between mystics and tech-savvy moderns means that listening to tradition in the face of new challenges doesn’t e…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…two back-to-back hours of the same hour about Mormonism, one time for the American audiences, and a second time for the whole world. During the first hour, taping for American audiences, when the inevitable polygamy question came, I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to convey in a soundbite the terrible complexity of Mormonism’s relationship to polygamy: how while it is true that Mormons today no longer plurally cohabitate, polygamy has never been…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…s morning’s press conference. The way the “moderate” leadership intends to manage the chamber’s 36 Freedom Caucusoids appears to consist mainly of accommodating them on core policy, if not on rules. The corporate media chatter on about the consequences of a national default on middle-class people’s pensions. They chatter on about “will he or won’t he” Paul Ryan. Almost nobody with a soapbox, and (sadly) none of our religious leaders, talks about b…

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…-Israel” enough. The Forward reports on Israel, of course, but it seems to manage to do so in a way that commands respect. And that is no easy maneuver in the intensely polarized current media world. In a world where Vogue’s choice of a Palestinian-American cover model for its anniversary issue gets everyone all riled up and an Israeli model’s Facebook posts on the conflict are put under scrutiny, it is probably no surprise that BBC reporters and…

The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours

By Daniel Schultz

…tive evangelicals went on to vote for Trump by 80%. The mention of African-American voters is curious, since Sanders—like Clinton—did spend time speaking at black churches, but it cut no ice. African-Americans and particularly black women, decided that by policy and personality, Clinton was their woman, and they stuck with her. When a race is as close as Ossoff’s, it’s tempting to argue that eating into the opponent’s base on religious or any othe…

Elena Kagan and her Socialist Thesis

By Janine Giordano Drake

…d by many poor whites in the flyover states. For example, any professional American historian could tell you that the ‘red-baiting’ of public figures is a long-held refuge of conservatives, going back over 100 years, but can they stop reporting that panders to this tactic? Any scholar of American Religion could easily refute Glenn Beck’s inflammatory statement that social justice in churches is a cover for communism or fascism. The term “social ju…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…last year argued against marriage equality in a 2012 lawsuit at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights brought by three Chilean same-sex couples. Morocco: British Gay Man Released from Jail A 69-year old British man who had been sentenced to four months in prison in Morocco for homosexuality was released after 20 days. According to the BBC Ray Cole was vacationing in Morocco, visiting a man in Marrakech he met on the internet. Police reportedly…

Sister Rose and a Teenager’s First Headscarf

By Shabana Mir

…n of the love of God—the same God she had devoted her life to? How did she manage to live in Lahore, in Pakistan, with that antagonism towards Islam and its practices, and yet maintain a spiritual life? And Sister Rose was not alone in that attitude. Sister Matilde, the elderly wizened nun who pottered around school helping little children, called me out in the cafeteria one day, curling her lip in contempt: “Why are you wearing that thing? Look a…