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‘When I Spoke in Tongues’ Points the Way Out of Fundamentalist Christianity

By Andreea Nica

…relations, as it commonly does, but how she ultimately made sense of her exiting experience. Leaving a fundamentalist religious meaning system is considered a significant life event and often intersects with other social domains, like the family, in critical ways. This is generally because fundamentalist religions tend to cultivate strong social ties, support, a sense of identity, and a specific meaning system at the intimate intersection of fami…

New Age Tragedy in Sedona: Non-Indians in the Sweat Lodge

By Johnny P. Flynn

…and grandpas,” and so they must be chosen carefully. The wrong stones can explode in the fire, or worse, in the lodge. They can give off toxic fumes or not heat properly. As one sweat leader many years ago taught me, “the stones choose you, not the other way around.” Even the act of bringing the stones into the lodge is dangerous; super-heated rocks carried from an even hotter fire can roll off the shovel or pitchfork and land in someone’s lap—and…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…previously weren’t aware of. The punch line is delivered and there’s this new perspective we’d never thought of before. I think that space in between is a very therapeutic dose of confusion, which evokes the emotional response, laughter being the emotional response, a form of weeping. Bonus: An Interview with Ultra Spiritual JP Sears Ultra Spiritual JP, is there an inherent conflict between religion and science? There’s no scientific basis to bac…

The Broken Promise of Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘The Goop Lab’

By Daniel Albert Joslyn

…iberation. A first step TGL on its own, sadly, is unlikely to inspire. The new ‘New Age’ The roots of Goop lie in utopian dreams of other ways of being; the same set of impulses that drove the idea of universal human rights, jobs for all, communes, racially-integrated worlds, and both spiritual and this-worldly democracy. During the 60s and 70s, the intertwined movements for Black power, gay liberation and women’s liberation rose to prominence, ga…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…e Family), February 4. “Obama Justice Nominee Used to Represent Playboy”—Fox News, February 4. “Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Pro-Abortion Obama Justice Pick David Ogden—LifeNews.com, February 5. “Justice Dept. Nominees Raise Eyebrows”—Christian Broadcasting Network, February 5. “Deputy US Attorney General nominee linked to porn industry”—Catholic News Agency, February 5. “Obama’s Choice for Deputy AG is ‘Pro-Obscenity,’ ‘Pro-Abortion’ and ‘…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…by the country of their birth. So precisely because it is a kind of “born-again” form of Islam, very pure and global, it’s not tied to any particular tradition. So yes, it is a new form. Pure and religion don’t really go together, in practice, do they? Except new religions—they can be very purist. You see that in Christianity too. If you compare most evangelicals in the U.S. today with traditional priests in the Catholic church the evangelicals w…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…gelicals into a political movement when the IRS threatened to revoke the tax exempt status of racially discriminatory Christian schools. Today, evangelicals of color staying to “combat racism from within” are working against a deeply entrenched culture. Demographers frequently say that the balance is tipping: white evangelicals are a shrinking population and people of color will soon make up the faith’s majority. But even if a demographic shift se…

Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…nt, discussed and promoted by a jury selected to represent (some parts of) New York City. The excitement turns to tension, then to panic. The selected design has been produced by a Muslim, an American Muslim architect of some renown named Mohammed Khan, and the committee is flabbergasted. How can they present a design proposed by a Muslim to officially remember 9/11? But on what basis can’t they? Beginning with this disastrous victory we are dragg…

“Godly Or Bad?”: The Return of Ted Haggard

By J. Terry Todd

…ion to men. Their advice? Head west, to Colorado Springs, evangelicalism’s New Jerusalem, and to New Life Church, no less, where Haas found himself at the feet of the great Ted Haggard—“the ultimate man of God,” in Haas’ words. As he tells the story, Haggard’s face brightened when the pastor discovered the young man was struggling with his sexual identity. The courtship began, furtively of course, and over the next year or so, their relationship d…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…ials instructing the public to report anyone they suspect of being a homosexual or “promoting homosexuality.” As in Uganda, reports AI, Zambian publications have been “outing” individuals. Zimbabwe: Mugabe Denounces Homosexuality (Again) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 90th birthday by denouncing homosexuality, something he has done many times before. Russia: More on the World Congress of Families, Fears of Loss of Olympic Spot…