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The New Christianity: What the Mainstream Media Has Missed

By Bill Berkowitz

…ngly promoted our work, accurately dubbing Palin a ‘Manchurian candidate.’ New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein interviewed us at considerable length and quoted me in her NYT story on Palin. She was one of the few journalists assigned to the beat (Garance Burke, writing for the Associated Press, also stood out) who got it. Her story, without actually naming the New Apostolic Reformation, covered much of what was important for her read…

What Get Religion Doesn’t Get About “Monk” Class

By Anthea Butler

…olleague Justin McDaniel, I am going to make an exception. Mattingly’s February 14th post “How to live like a monk? Not!” (later changed to “How to live like faith-free monks”), lamented the fact that the AP neglected to talk about a spiritual tradition or any disciplines. Let me quote Mattingly’s opening: On one level, nothing in the following story is surprising. Stop and think about it: What kind of class could a mainstream university professo…

The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

By Jason Bruner

…nd when it came and to whom it came would be to spurn a people for whom a “new earth” has a distinct meaning and is inherently good news. I think I can safely assume that for most Americans, Camping and his miscalculated (and then recalculated) doomsday predictions are of more curiosity than true salvific concern. Camping has been buried by subsequent news cycles and is the latest member of a cadre of religious leaders whom the Apocalypse passed b…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…omfortable with how yoga was being practiced. Now the class is back with a new instructor—a South Asian instructor—who worries she was hired only because she’s Indian. The incident was the latest in a string of cultural flashpoints surrounding the centuries-old Indian practice, and has made many a yogi rethink the lines between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation. In the following conversation, journalist Michelle Goldberg and professor A…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…et too depressed. Award-winning filmmaker Musa Syeed, a recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School, has made two absolutely brilliant documentary films, equal parts touching, hilarious, and surprising. The short film A Son’s Sacrifice tells the charming process by which the American child of immigrants decides to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a halal butcher. Syeed’s more recent film is Bronx Princess, centered around a vi…

Marriage Equality: No More (Word) Games

By William Myatt

…or my Christian faith? Instead of having the discussion in a vacuum, where words and ideas can be analyzed outside of experience, I make sure that my analysis runs directly through experience, and most importantly, through the experience of the suffering. Relative to this discussion, there is no more appropriate voice to include than that of the LGBT community, those whose experience has been objectified in “our” discussions of “their” rights. If…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

…sexual and are therefore indifferent to the theistic arena), God is just a word, not The Word, that can refer to just about any experience that is hard to describe with other words. While many equate religious belief with belief in one God, it is time to recognize that religious diversity in America is a messy, complicated, and confusing social reality not limited to one theological vision of a Father in Heaven, or a Creator of the Universe, or a…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…h. Eventually, compassion becomes the sturdy stalk that gives life to the fruit of kindness. Rule #3: Practice Hospitality Hospitality is the gracious honoring of one’s neighbors, especially strangers. A compelling gesture of hospitality is contained in the Sanskrit greeting: “Namaste,” or “the sacred in me greets the sacred in you.” Even as people stand firm on their differences of opinion, their spirits can bow with reverent hospitality. When we…

RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…tian Century review of Hitchens’ contribution. Stanley Fish’s blogs in the New York Times on atheism are interesting.) Today’s Atheists: Yesterday’s Angst Among the many things associated with the progress of public atheism, “newness” still stands out: new books, new marketing imagination (paid banners on London buses, “There’s probably no God”), new recognition in inaugural addresses, and a hint of new intellectual fashion. But if we step out fro…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…, the ideologue who’s been one of the central figures in the conservative crusade against critical race theory. Hochman cites Rufo in order to demonstrate the secular novelty of the latter’s approach to politics: “The goal is to protect these people, Middle Americans of all racial backgrounds—working class and middle class—to protect them against what I think is a hostile and nihilistic elite that is seeking to impose its values onto the working a…