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Blame Series Bonus: Why We Want That Dish For Free, an Uncut Interview with Bertram Malle

By Andrew Aghapour

…ble about collective or institutional behavior. When we see a policeman, a particular person, shoot a particular other person, then you want to understand that particular situation. It doesn’t really help if people then get some kind of collective explanation, saying something like, “Well, but in general our police enforcement is very fair and non-biased and not racist”, and so on. It doesn’t help. There would need to be much more detailed informa…

Paranormal Vodka, Exorcists and a Demonic Doll: Welcome to Paracon, Based on the Work of the Demon-Hunters Who Inspired the ‘Conjuring’ Series

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…w England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) Seekers of the Supernatural Paracon as part of our research for our book The Exorcist Effect (named for a phenomenon we discussed in these pages after the release of Conjuring 3). I certainly didn’t expect the crowd. The Paracon, held the weekend before Halloween, is based around the work of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the famous demon-hunting couple whose case files are the basis of the billion-dollar Co…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…itics have become routinely miss the real point, which is how a racialized Republican Party maintains minority rule—and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, regardless of who wins the presidency—without a significant restructuring of the entire broken system. White power is green Then there’s the other face of persistent white power: its economic face. Raising this subject tends to raise hackles among economically secure white libera…

Spiritual Unplugging, Or What to Do When There is Wifi at the Ashram

By Matt Hamilton

…way,” I’d remind myself as I sat in morning meditation, relishing the slow pace, the lack of phone, and the birds, chirping in the canyon surrounding the ashram. After about an hour of silence, the spiritual director Surrendra read a passage aloud from the legendary 20th century yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda. “Yours is a glorious destiny. You are a child of the Infinite!” Surrendra said. “Why delay? Why waste time on countless detours? Go straight t…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…y from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at reduced price; cheap wares for cheap faith. It would be an error, however, to fully dismiss pop culture angels. Despite the fact that representations of angels in film and television, comics and music, paperback novels and posters, are filtered through market concerns, such pop culture can still speak to human meaning—and because of that they merit our attention. Besides, the bulk of art…

As Pat Robertson Retires, Here Are 10 of His Most Cringeworthy Moments

By Chrissy Stroop

…quite plausible story. In 1998, however, Robertson did have this to say to participants in Orlando’s Pride Festival, referring to rainbow flags: “I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you.” In 2005, he also made some vague remarks on The 700 Club to the effect that legal abortion just might have something to with the prevalence of terrorist…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e years. What prompted the openness was a request from a Spanish gay woman participating in a Zen meditation session who asked to use the temple for a wedding with her partner. Zenryu Kawakami, the deputy temple master who talked with the Spanish woman, said he accepted her request because Mahayana Buddhism, the prevailing form in Japan, has nothing against homosexuality. A David McNeill story in the Irish Times about the increasing acceptance of…

Racism and Anti-Semitism Are Not Intrusions of a Dark Past Into Our Present

By Joyce Dalsheim and Gregory Starrett

…the present—we ignore the possibility of its reappearance. In other words, parts of the past that seem to intrude into the present are indications that there can be no permanent consignment of our previous collective selves to the grave. The past lingers with us in the now as an inheritance that’s central to our present selves, and therefore represents a capacity for return. Eric K. Ward writing for Political Research Associates reminds us of one…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…relationships and the difference between fully-realized relationships that participate in the sacred vs. liaisons that fall short of that mark. Religious progressives, after all, are the ones who have tried to enrich, not degrade, the marriage sacrament by arguing that God blesses all deeply committed marriage bonds, not just marriages made by heterosexuals. What progressive Christians won’t do, however, is renounce all sexuality or follow people…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…it. Not everyone there, as you say Sarah, was a dominionist. Everyone who participated in the fasting and prayer, however, did think it was important to pray for America and the particular moral issues they felt were relevant to their beliefs. The big story is that the religious right isn’t dead. Its alive and kicking. Ralph Reed got that right in his article: The media, which has been publishing the obituary of religious conservatives prematurel…