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I Ate A Bowl of Soup, and Now I’m Muslim

…piece on how the same sort of simplistic thinking has infected the way we talk about “kosher.” You cannot talk about the tradition if you do not know the tradition. I think the illogic of this group is a fascinating thing to follow. One country, Canada, to which most neo-con Islamophobes have an allergic reaction because of its alleged socialist tendencies, has a company that is making a business decision. There is an underserved market that Camp…

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Secularism in the US is Larger, More Diverse and More Dynamic Than Ever, But You Wouldn’t Know it From the Media

…unaffiliated, exvangelicals, atheists, and secular advocates, rather than talking to us. If they were to start talking to us, treating us as valuable sources and stakeholders in the national discussion around religion and politics, civil society, and pluralism, they would of course have to grapple with a very different viewpoint on American secularization than the “Chicken Little” story they insist on purveying, as if they all nodded along with D…

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The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

…and why she wouldn’t condemn the Soviet Union: “They weren’t interested in talking with someone who simply accepted things as they were and decided to live her life free from historical conflicts.” The desire to float above history is certainly understandable, given the cataclysms she lived through. But as a political person, I can’t help but see the belief that one can escape history by changing one’s own consciousness as a fantasy. “The last peo…

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‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

…we’re in such a mess—while guys like him are PR geniuses when it comes to talking the talk, they appear to be walking away from Christ’s teachings. However, since Pat’s 2005 assassination faux-pas, I haven’t seen him as a go-to guy in either the 2006 and 2008 election. Seems to me his unbiblical buzz may have run out of batteries. Hence, giving Pat any more PR simply gives him the illusion that he remains a relevant player. And he’s not. While I…

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What Can a Real Life Haunting Tell Us About American Religion? [Updated]

…before his experience of the Lancaster house. At first he rejected Maria’s talk and, when forced, preferred to talk about some sort of “energy” being in the house. Mark’s instinct is a common one in the United States. Like many ghost hunters, he sought to scientize his seemingly paranormal experiences. To people like Mark, the idea of a ghost seems unbelievable or superstitious. Something was going on, he believed, but calling it “energy” was more…

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Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

…parenting classic, How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, because, if they pay attention, they may have a prayer of being decent in any job involving communication with human beings. There’s a particular art to using words with young human beings such that they keep using words around you. Beverly Cleary was a genius at writing words for human beings navigating life while little. In Ramona the Pest (1968) Ramona is starting…

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Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

…is now on the nightly news and ubiquitous on the Internet and conservative talk radio. The elite scapegoats for right-wing populists today are liberals and Democrats trying to pass “socialist” health care schemes as a first step toward a totalitarian fascist society. The scapegoats lower on the socio-economic ladder are immigrants, community organizers, and Muslims. Last fall in Boise, I ran into the Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, President of the Inte…

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Changes in Role of Mormon Women Can’t Be Discussed—But Let’s Discuss Them Anyway

…ess of that might be behind President Russell M. Nelson’s Sunday afternoon talk from the October 2018 General Conference, in which he invites members “to worship in the temple and pray to feel deeply the Savior’s infinite love for you, that each of you may gain your own testimony that He directs this sacred and ageless work.” But it’s a bit weird to call the work “ageless” when significant changes to its outdated elements had to have been already…

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RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

…aded terms like “female genital mutilation” and “female feticide.” Can you talk a little bit about the choice of language in discussing some of these issues? Both of those terms are really controversial, for different reasons. There are some African women who feel that “female genital mutilation” is horribly judgmental. One of the women I quote in the book says, “I may be different from you and I am excised, but I am not mutilated. Just like I wil…

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“I Think the White Evangelical Church is Dead”: Dr. Russell Jeung on ‘Guilt’ vs. ‘Shame’ and Decolonizing Asian-American Christianity

…ian understands righteousness. It’s also very biblical. That’s how Hebrews talk about righteousness. That’s what it meant for Adam and Eve to be ashamed that their relationship is broken, not necessarily that they were guilty. How do you apply that theological framework to social justice? That’s my main point in talks about doing justice. The American sense of doing justice is that things are unfair and so, you’d have to make things more fair. It’…

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