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Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…not formed on Facebook, they were enriched by students’ continued digital contact. The problem with regard to churches and other religious communities (and we see this over and over again with Facebook group pages whose only visitors are the minister and the technophile parishioner who championed the church’s foray into the digital domain) seems to be that there’s not enough social to go around. That is, if church were, indeed, a robustly social…

Beyond Progressive Religion

By Ivan Petrella

…il end, however, because our religious diversity vanishes when it comes in contact with our political culture and process. We’ve become a country that actually requires its politicians to take openly Christian positions if they are to be successful, a country that sets up what I call “Christian litmus tests” for candidates running for office, a country that is unwilling to accept an agnostic, atheist, or non-Christian president. As David Domke and…

GOP Does Not Stand For “Gay Old Party”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ave my friend soon enough. LaBarbera’s group is encouraging its members to contact the GOP’s new leader, Michael Steele, urging him to never, ever, under penalty of … well, a scolding, I suppose – and no more money from AFTAH – meet with those filthy, dastardly, gay Log Cabin Republicans – which boasts about 20,000 members nationwide. “Michael Steele and the GOP need to do the math: it is foolish and impractical to risk alienating millions of pro-…

Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

By Sammy Feldblum

…t Stephen Jay Gould famously called “non-overlapping magisteria”—come into contact. As useful as the data can often be, Ecklund’s interpretations and prescriptions often strain to “depoliticize” the sites of conflict, as if it’s even possible to depoliticize an issue like climate science in the United States. Her reasons are numerous, no doubt, but the factors that distort public discussion, money and power, are the kinds of forces that can warp r…

Your Hatred Will Make Me Famous

By Joseph Laycock

…s blacklisted him from many clubs and internet forums. Individuals who had contact with Paige Brewer through vampire Web sites offered information to police in Minnesota. Others contacted Sharkey’s current paramour and tried to persuade her to return to her family. Sharkey responded to this rejection by sending an email to prominent vampires with the subject line “You are ALL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS,” in which he warned that he has requested a meeting…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Religious Vote of the Future, with a Pickle

By Jeff Sharlet

…s vote of the future.” (If there is someone out there willing to say that, contact me and I’ll send your name along. Let’s get your career jump-started!) My own dreams of punditry went no further than my next reply. The most I could say on my assigned topic, I wrote, was that Christian conservatism is neither dead, as widely reported by the secular press, nor becoming more “moderate.” Rather, many strands of Christian conservative thinking are bro…

When Atheists Cry “Heresy!”: Sam Harris Condemns Obama Pick for NIH

By Eric Reitan

…xperiences of an astonishing kind, experiences which seem to bring us into contact with something extraordinary, something wondrous beneath the empirical surface of things. Faith is about the decision to follow the hope gestured toward in religious experience, rather than dismissing such experience as delusional, as nothing more than neural misfirings in the brain. Living in such a hope is not incompatible with accepting the scientific facts as th…

Omar Ahmad: Muslim, American, Cowboy Boot Aficionado (1965–2011)

By Wajahat Ali

…ice of his community—a community comprised of all the people who came into contact with him. As mayor he had constituents; he was also a man who had many friends. We can only begin by listing the traits that made him a 21st-century Hemingway. Omar Ahmed: Mayor of San Carlos; lover of fine cigars; spinner of great yarns; Silicon Valley entrepreneur; passionate aviator; mountain climber; cowboy boot aficionado; leader; visionary; friend. Death did…

Stop Debunking Climate Change Deniers

By Michael Schulson

…gs tend to form and reinforce beliefs in a communal way. And it’s personal contact that changes minds, not just good ideas. Diplomacy, in other words, might be a lot more effective than debunking. “Sometimes democracy is less a matter of thinking well,” Shulevitz writes, “than of choosing your friends wisely.” In that diplomatic spirit, there’s a whole movement of thinkers devoted to environmental theology, and other reconciliations between enviro…

Are God and Aliens Compatible?

By Gabriel Mckee

…s the strongest statement of that attitude: “I look forward with horror to contact with the other inhabited planets, if there are such. We would only transport to them all of our sin and our acquisitiveness, and establish a new colonialism. I can’t bear to think of it. But if we on Earth were to get right with God, of course, all would be changed. Once we find ourselves spiritually awakened, we can go to outer space and take the good things with u…