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“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…native (and surer), basis for ethics. Sokrates certainly thought so in his day, and many modern philosophers of science believe so today. These issues are as old as ancient Greece, where scientific rationalism first flourished, but revived and became even more pressing with the advent of Darwinism 150 years ago this fall. “I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically” In November, 1859, within a week of receiving a pre-publication copy of his former…

Political Consequences of a Judging God: A Yom Kippur Reflection

By Jay Michaelson

…dely known, among Jews and non-Jews alike, it is one of the few Jewish holidays also widely observed among the non-observant—probably out of guilt, but possibly out of a vague sense that this is an important day, and fasting is an important thing to do. Yet every Yom Kippur, for at least the last decade, I’ve struggled with the theology of the day, the liturgy of repentance, and the challenge of tshuvah, return (usually translated “repentance,” bu…

Revealing Joseph Smith’s (Well-Known) Polygamy Doesn’t Address the LDS Church’s Bigger Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…eology and policies pertaining to LDS temple marriages, as it does to this day? To this day, divorced or widowed men can marry a subsequent spouse “for eternity” in an LDS temple while divorced or widowed women cannot, a policy that suggests that in the eyes of the contemporary LDS Church polygamy is God’s intended order for the eternities. From the time I was a nine-year-old girl, I worried anxiously that I might be one of multiple wives in the e…

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…and shouted, as the crowd prayed and spoke in tongues, “this is a Passover Day for America. Today, we plead the blood of Jesus on the doorpost!” Purity covenants, requiring abstention from even thinking about sex outside of marriage, were distributed. Participants were urged to consecrate themselves, to be ready for the moment when Jesus “is going to rule over Washington DC and the world.” Engle’s colleagues from the International House of Prayer…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ive’? Why Trump’s push for more presidential power alarms his foes,” USA Today, October 26, 2023, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/26/donald-trump-presidential-power/71255801007/. [9] Lisa Mascaro, “Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump’s vision,” Associated Press, August 29, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b5898…

High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death

By Shaul Magid

…pur (and maybe Passover). I mean, seriously, if your Judaism is only three days, why make one of them a fast day? Why not celebrate Purim (which most Jews don’t do) since we at least get drunk while the other guys are dying. But of course, it’s common knowledge that death fills the pews; not only among Jews, but in religions more generally. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, there’s no way to overestimate the way death ev…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…tle bit more spontaneous.” A New Revolution The March 10 National Uprising Day protest in Delhi was bigger than ever this year. Tempa Tsering, the official representative of the Dalai Lama, says more than 1,000 gathered in front of the United Nations’ office to mark the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion in Tibet against China’s People’s Liberation Army. “The emotions are much stronger—the sense of concern, the sense of anxiety, the urgency,” Tseri…

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

…e as thoroughly de-naturalized as many of the products shilled on Black Friday, a day energized by the false promises of goods fueled by petroleum consumption. Some have declared Black Friday “Buy Nothing Day,” or added a Green Saturday. Just focusing again on the fruits of the earth, and giving thanks for the water that sustains us all and its endangered state is a huge improvement. In Oceti Sakowin camp on Standing Rock reservation, we learned t…

The Ordinary Jesus: An Excerpt from Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

By James Carroll

…on can imitate, the most ordinary person bringing Christ once more to life—day by day, word by word, bread by bread, cup by cup. In all of that we see divinity, which, paradoxically, is what makes Jesus one of us. Whatever sort of God Jesus is understood to be, it must be the God who is like humans, not different. If that seems impossible, then what we think of God—and of humans— must change. This is essential to the New Testament and “the very lo…

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…inal whose mind captivates national attention. But for those in the Latter-day Saint community, the Hofmann forgeries and bombings had longer legacies that transcend what they’ll see on the screen. The crisis also raises questions concerning spiritual belief, religious scholarship, and faithful belonging in a modern era. Bolder and bolder forgeries The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrated its sesquicentennial in 1980, the year of…