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Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…he’s attended, he’s deeply involved with the QAnon conspiracy theory. His car is covered with slogans including “Q is real,” “save the children,” and “children’s lives matter,” referencing the child sex trafficking ring rumors of QAnon. He claims that he can see higher frequencies using his third eye, therefore he knows what these elite pedophiles are doing. Identifying himself as a “digital soldier” in a spiritual war, he sees himself as fightin…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…g a friend what band sang that song about Uncle John on the mixtape in her car stereo. When she filled me in, I thought, “Huh. So that’s the Grateful Dead. Maybe I have heard them before and didn’t realize it.” A year or so later, half-way through my freshman year of college in 1989, I went to my first Dead show near Chicago. I didn’t have a ticket (and didn’t care so much about the music, really) but wanted to see what all the fuss was about from…

The Religious Duty to Come Out

By Jay Michaelson

…a decade of self-hatred, and finally, as I described earlier, a near-fatal car accident and the ending of a long-term relationship, before I at last gave up on trying to be someone I was not. Finally, all of us can learn from these narratives—the “coming out” narrative may be familiar not just to many other gay people, of course, but also to anyone who has been “born again” or experienced religious conversion. The patterns are similar: the struggl…

Well, It Would Have Been a Good Religion Question…

By Sarah Posner

…ll without a bed, with three other prisoners, including a prostitute and a car thief. They threw the food through a little window in the door. I laid on the floor covered with my tallit.” * * * * When, at the police station, she was told to move from one chair to another, “I thought I should show him what noncooperation looks like,” and refused to move, she said. “When I refused to move, he dropped me to the floor and dragged me with the handcuffs…

Radicalization Not Linked to Religion

By Julie Ingersoll

…fficer purportedly would be able to identify a Muslim “extremist” during a car check, a pedestrian check, or a business or residence check. Despite near-unanimity about the difficulty of identifying signs of radicalization, it seems a Kansas City cop would be able to do so in the course of a writing a ticket. According to the Brennan Center study, 40% of the terror plots that have been thwarted by law enforcement have been discovered, at least in…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…smoke, he said the two were comparable with respect to particulate matter, carbon monoxide, and polycyclic hydrocarbons. Temples and the people visiting them have several alternatives that can help reduce the risk from incense smoke. In their paper, Ho and his coauthors write that “visitors may decrease the number of incense sticks burned and period of stay at temples.” In my travels, I did visit temples that tried to suggest limits on how many in…

The Bible, Brought To You By Wal-Mart

By Paul Harvey

…rist painting being reproduced to allow post-World War II Americans to be “card-carrying Christians,” to countless evangelical products that pervade the world of popular culture. 3. Aside from the inevitable projections for success and commercial tie-ins designed to spin off attention to and profits for the series, the series producers share one other characteristic very common to the genre of producing films of biblical stories: a cultural point….

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…alley of the shadow of death. We’re one, but we’re not the same; we get to carry each other … But since its inception in 1976, the band formed by four teenage boys from Dublin’s hardscrabble north side has opened a vein, sharing their most vulnerable moments and struggles with anyone who would listen. And sorrow has visited the U2 family far too often this season. Bono narrowly escaped a bicycling accident in New York’s Central Park last November…

Satanist Religious Freedom Rally Successful Despite Neo-Nazis and Christian Heckler

By Joseph Laycock

…flatbed truck and circled into position. I watched a leather-clad Satanist carry a trash bag over to a group of Christian demonstrators to ask if they had any garbage. An elderly man joked, “That statue is garbage!” The Satanist smiled and answered, “Well I can only take garbage that fits in this bag.” Ivy Forrester of TST Arkansas took the podium and began introducing the rally’s five speakers, which included TST spokespersons Sadie Satanas and L…

Of Personhood and the Pill: What’s at Stake?

By Atlee Parks Breland

…ho undergoes IVF is viscerally aware that those embryos might, one day, be carefully wrapped in a blanket and tucked into a car seat for the first ride home. Many save pictures of their embryos, in the hope of making them the first entry in a baby book. The process of embryo cryopreservation is a necessary part of IVF. Doctors aim to retrieve approximately 10 eggs from a woman undergoing IVF, knowing that only 25% will fertilize and develop into e…