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Papal Profanity: The Vatican’s Pagan Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rly culture and it continues to value freedom of enquiry, the discovery of new materials, and the promotion of novel points of view. What you sense most clearly at the Vatican Library is that popes come and go, as professors do, but books and the society of learning remain. We are all links in a chain, not just the men who claim an apostolic succession going back to Peter. The fact that this book is on display in that Library now is something for…

Eddie Long Takes Break from New Birth Pulpit

By Anthea Butler

…rding to the blog PimpPreachers.com, a group of protesters were “Occupying New Birth” and demanding that Long leave the church he has pastored since 1997. At its peak, New Birth boasted 25,000 members, a figure that sank as Long was accused of sexual abuse and assault by young male congregants last year, claims Long settled in secret in May. The Occupy group passed out flyers which read, “The People must rise up and occupy the pulpits, the tithe…

New York State Senator Declares War on NY Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ld be put to the voters, not the legislature. But polls show nearly 60% of New Yorkers support the new law. “We should have an open and deliberative process,” the Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, told The Associated Press. “If truly the legislation can stand on its own merits then it should be able to withstand being deliberated publicly.” (Liberty Counsel represents McGuire’s group in the lawsuit…

“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…n the language so that it had—not playfulness, but just, “this is the best new evidence. This is the best new story we got going now.” Here’s the critique: that, “the universe is expanding” is a very loose way of talking about love or personal development. It’s a superficial connection between things that are substantially different. If the metaphor breaks down, [at least] I took a valiant effort at connecting a few things. Malcolm Gladwell, who e…

The High Church of Art

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t influential positions were as Director of the Simon Guggenheim Museum in New York (1952-1960); he was there when the new building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opened, though he was ambivalent about it, worrying that the space was designed to promote the architect, not a spiritual experience of inner space. And then he served as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (1961-1967). The shows Sweeney curated, the work he collected, and the…

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

…e new mass of it surfacing in California. From its earliest days, many of New Thought’s leading teachers and practitioners and promoters were women, which is not to say that women are more credulous but which is to say that women may well experience more suffering in an androcentric America. What was first called New Thought in William James’s time came to be known as New Age thinking toward the end of the 20th century (Mark Oppenheimer’s profi…

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…graphical is the feeling of alienation; of being Jewish when you’re not in New York. Because some of the things I experienced in different countries, like these characters did, where, when you leave your enclaves, like New York and L.A., and you go to places like London or Warsaw, it’s still kind of weird to be Jewish. It’s just not that big of a deal in a lot of cities in America. But when you go abroad, you realize it’s a different thing to be….

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…sis in countries as diverse as Brazil, Central African Republic, Pakistan, India, and Myanmar, where vigilantes from dominant religious communities routinely attack the homes, businesses, and houses of worship of religious minorities with impunity. As I show in my recent book The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation, similar dynamics appear to be unfolding in the United States today, where a combination of forces—…

Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory

By Ann Gleig

…ormer Theravada monk, and Mark Vetanen, a Zen practitioner, have started a new podcast called “The Spiritual Right,” which reproduces much of Christian conservative anti-woke rhetoric: “The West has become a spiritual wasteland of ‘progressive’ and materialistic forces. Wokeness masquerades as authentic spiritual tradition, gutting and commodifying ancient teachings to fit its values.” Writing under the signifier “politically incorrect Dharma,” Re…

From Elon to Elizabeth: The 7 Seals of the 2022 Apocalypse

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…l wars, folks. 3. Famine: Political Famine vs. Lettuce Famines are nothing new from a historical perspective, but some places in the world continue to experience political famines in terms of being able to elect, or to keep, a decent national leader. We have every reason to believe the list of candidates will soon begin to bleed into the D-List world; then, it’ll only be a matter of time before Pete Davidson is dating the next or current Prime Min…