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The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure

By The Editors

…once burning with possibility and joy, began to cool, as cell phone calls dwindled and numbers eventually changed or were disconnected. As our shared realities drifted apart in their likeness, like Pigpen, I also turned to technologies that promised connection to try to tamp down the yearning and temper that sense of loss. #5 : Three Ways to American Beauty by Aaron K. Kerr At the height of secular modernity, when Catholics were opening the window…

Dear Lindsay Lohan, I’m Sorry

By Haroon Moghul

…at, and I apologize for being part of such a mean gesture. In fact I had a phone conversation with a prominent American imam last night—in Islam, we say subhanallah at such coincidences—and he mentioned in passing how offended many white American Muslims were by this very kind of gesture. On reflection, I can see why. I don’t find racial insensitivity humorous directed at me. The least I can do is not support it. And the least I can do is the leas…

Can You Make a Comedy About UFO Cult Mass Suicide?

By Joseph Laycock

…es have caused them to feel they have no other option. Jones says his film will portray how obstacles like a leader with failing health and harassment from concerned family members could lead a hypothetical movement to consider mass suicide as a viable option. Despite his good intentions, Jones has faced some backlash from critics who claim his project is in bad taste. He understands the reaction, but defends the right of comedians to make light o…

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

By Jesse James DeConto

…tural reaction to the things that they were not. So as somebody who was growing up with a slowly growing awareness of his sexual identity and sexual orientation—which did not fit into most Christian contexts as a permissible, acceptable thing, something to be nurtured and cared for, and supported—I recognized really quickly that those who sought to identify non-Christians, those who were trying to figure out who shouldn’t be allowed in the crowd,…

Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…or undo. That Mr. Perkins and others are asking for a theocracy is nothing new—and once again our commitment to religious liberty will withstand his attacks on it….

“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…d towards Iraq and Kurdistan. The pharmacist showed me a video he had made with his cell phone, which did indeed look like a cattle surge of vehicles illumined by a few eerie lights. Now the news from his town is “very bad”—there is no water or electricity or food in stores. Christians are forced to make payments to be allowed to survive and have to pretend to be Muslims and go to the mosque, and ISIS militants roam around the streets and do whate…

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

…, to a large extent, unmapped: the terra incognita in our skulls. Over the phone, Eagleman spoke with The Cubit about traumatic brain injuries, the idea of possibilianism, and the language we use to describe our brains. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. In The Brain, you do a good job of depicting the fragility of our experience of reality. Am I right to be a little scared by this instability? [Laughs] Well, you know, it’s one…

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…

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

By Andrew Aghapour

…g to make choices that are better than anything else that we could come up with. I agree with you, too—I’m not a big fan of people saying technology is good or evil one way. I just think technology is what it is. I do think the universe has been imbued with a sense of evolution or a sense of progress. It seems to me, I’m not 100% sure, but the universe is evolving into something. And I like that evolutionary process. I’m a fan of the evolutionary…

Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…, meaning that (although it’s complicated and somewhat contested) a person with a single Jewish grandparent is Jewish, as long as that grandparent is the maternal grandmother. Schmitz is clearly trying to evoke this tradition in order to claim that there’s no way he’s an anti-Semite. And maybe he’s not! But there are reasons to find this appeal to ancestry more than a little off-putting. First of all, it ignores an enormous, ongoing internecine th…