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Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…inking can be clearly a point of commonality between our religious and our non-religious apocalypticists. Both are talking about very grand and hair-raising events that are spinning out of control. Some other commonalities: • Each version has its insiders, its lead prophets, who reveal or unveil End Time scenarios. This perfectly fits the apocalyptic genre, as the Greek root refers specifically to such uncovering. • Each focuses on cumulative hu…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gths, and the great expense of a high-power law firm, to try to score some cheap political points on the backs of same-sex couples.” I suppose Boehner can pander to the religious right and continue to defend “traditional” marriage, but I think it’s fair to ask why—when jobless rates continue to hover near 10 percent—which issue may be most important to God: how people arrange their intimate relationships, or how we feed and care for those families…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…in, nestles into, and suckles on the unconscious work of our emotions. The non-rational unconscious, he says, is “the soul of the species,” or our “soulscape.” It is “a place where spiritual states arise and dance from soul to soul.” In the place where our brains produce emotional reactions, Brooks charges, there might be what he calls a “divine creativity” where “love rewires the neurons.” And so Brooks underscores what he calls the emotionally h…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…ny analyst and former official with a view on Tibet and China could fire a cheap shot. The Indian government’s assertiveness vis-à-vis China is refreshing (though achieving it at the expense of refugees and Buddhist monks who fled China at 14 to get an education smacks of bad taste.) The affair has also unsettled the sentiments of those living in India’s predominantly Buddhist Himalayan region, which separates China from India. There were large pr…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t decade); and the uninspiring forms of industrial warfare still alive and none-too-well in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are also some new trends worth tracking, and Religion Dispatches was formed in large measure to enable better reflection upon them. The first has to do with the continued advances in contemporary communications technologies. RD serves a population that will continue to receive more and more of its news and information online (t…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…that his wife’s texts to Mark Meadows, in which she voices her support for Stop the Steal, were intended to demonstrate her commitment to stop the scourge of pickpockets besieging Mom & Pop stores. But who knows? Some people phone a friend to unload about their annoying neighbor, so maybe Mrs. Alito’s way of coping with neighborhood strife is to hoist a flag flown by insurrectionists. Could it be true? Yes. But it is incredibly unlikely—just as un…

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…e a caucus proposed a stop fracking resolution. We spent hours on national phone calls debating when fracking should be stopped. We finally proposed 2030 as the last fracking date. It was a compromise after many “brackets,” what COP21 calls the matters that are kept in that famous parking lot where we put the things we don’t know how to decide. The Synod amended our so-called radical proposal and unanimously passed 2017 as the final date. We were…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…ausible: New York’s the greatest city in the world, and Chicagoans need to stop trying. (As consolation prize, you can have the world’s number 2 pizza.) Of course, we don’t know if Cooper can do it. Cooper doesn’t think she can. But her boss believes the deskbound analyst has the potential to become a kickass field agent. Women empowering women. (Also, apparently, no other U.S. operative has the necessary skills to pull this off. Literally, there…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…untability, even when they commit egregiously bad legislation. In order to stop something like the AHCA, Longman suggests, liberals have to make conservatives fear a general election more than a primary. To do that, Democrats will have to contest Republicans in suburban and rural districts. Running up the numbers in the cities just won’t cut it. So there’s problem one: the AHCA is very much a “Republican versus Democrat issue.” It wouldn’t exist w…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…The Federation of Fire Chaplains explains on their web site that they are “non-denominational, non-sectarian,” and do not compromise people’s “belief or convictions.” When it became clear that many people in the Oakland warehouse known as Ghost Ship were young artists, Landeza and other chaplains at the site understood that even if they were religious themselves, they needed to “appreciate the diversity” of Oakland, which is ethnic and cultural, b…