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Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

…that come out of scientific research? We should be careful. We should do a lot of reading before we jump to conclusions. But I think that’s true for any form of responsible thinking. There’s a lot of great, accessible material out there today, however. So I don’t think there’s any real reason to be afraid. To cite Cusa: the problem is not our ignorance. That’s unavoidable. But if we realize the shape of our ignorance, then we can learn a lot more….

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Are We Living Through World War III?

…es from, have been shaping the decisions too many of us have been making. Because the scary thing is, there are people out there who want this World War to become a lot bloodier, a lot uglier, and a lot scarier. We saw what one of them could do last weekend in Florida….

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Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

…h his gender. And so we can see early episodes in which he is ironing his clothes, cleaning his house, trying on wigs, and playing with dolls. In addition, Francois Clemmons recalls that Rogers encouraged him to get in touch with the feminine dimension of his personality. According to Clemmons, Rogers even wondered aloud whether wearing women’s clothes might help Clemmons explore his feminine side. So it seems that Rogers was quite progressive on…

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The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

…is there any through line at all to older traditions? Obviously there’s a lot of silliness that goes under the name “tantra,” but you also suggest that there’s some sort of real continuity between Indian tantra and contemporary New Age spirituality. If there is, what is it? Indra Devi’s first book was called Forever Young, Forever Healthy. In my understanding, most Eastern religious traditions would teach us to let go of such an impossible fixate…

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Hillary’s Faith, Trump’s Conversion: Two Questions Journalists Need to Ask

…rheard a Catholic say). His gaffes at places like Liberty University got a lot of play back when there were real evangelicals in the race against him. Now, though, a lot of evangelicals feel, amazingly, that they must make peace with Trump. And to do so, they are falling back on some time-honored methods. If someone fails to meet your moral standards? You can point out that we are “all sinners” (as Hollis Phelps points out here on RD). Someone who…

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The Biblical Money Code!

…ld we bother trying to make a lot of it? And why is Hyman trying to make a lot of it by peddling his investment advice? Another dubious trick of biblical financial experts is to stress that Jesus talked a lot about money—not because money makes a nice metaphor for spiritual rewards, but because, according to Hyman, “the carpenter from Nazareth was a shrewd businessman.” Throughout the hour-long video I kept wondering what the angle was; it finally…

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“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

…know that protesters showed up, critics showed up—that didn’t sway you. A lot of your work was in social media; I’m sure there was a constant stream of stories and appeals that you were exposed to… What broke through to you from all of that?  Well, I did encounter a lot of the personal stories through the social media networks that I built. But that was, like I mentioned earlier, that was through a computer screen; it didn’t really have a persona…

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New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color

…go to the conferences, I’m always looking around, and there just aren’t a lot of people of color there. Out of the 200 that were probably there, I could have counted the number of reporters of color on one or two hands. That says something to me. I don’t think it’s anything intentional, but there’s something missing there. Of course, we always come back to the question, “Well, are there people of color pursuing journalism as a profession? Are the…

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The Secret Life of Mormons: As Told by Prodigal Daughter, Novelist Judith Freeman

…is a book about refusing death, and the price of that is shame. There’s a lot of shame to work out from under. And you have to be willing to do that hard excavation to get out from underneath culturally and within the family and within the religion a lot of resistance and judgment. But doing so allows you to bring back a more complex self to witness the girl you were, the young woman you were, the struggle and hunger and humanness that entailed….

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Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

…omen who admire me?” I told him, “I always give them five or six names and numbers, and the press says, ‘we’ve gone to them, and they won’t talk.’” I said to reporters, “I can only tell you my experience, and my experience is that he’s not accepting of people who are different, particularly women who are single who he has to deal with one-on-one.” Lots of women told me, “Don’t give the press my name anymore,” some because they had negative things…

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