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Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

…life that she had cured her own cervical cancer, which she attributed to excess anger on account of childhood sexual abuse, by forgiving herself. Based on this whopper, Hay went on to compile her famous list of ailments and their probable sources in wrong attitudes so that others could likewise triumph over their mortal foes. If you have Alzheimer’s, that’s probably because you refuse to “accept life as it is.” If you have leprosy, it’s because o…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…sses in the Hamptons (which includes early class signups) runs for $4,000. New York magazine interviewed one New York City rider who, by the magazine’s estimate, was spending more than $21,000 on SoulCycle each year. A single class, sans early sign-up perks, costs nearly as much as a month-long membership at my local YMCA. Meanwhile, back on SoulCycle’s website, instructors describe their work in frankly spiritual language. Here’s the lightly cond…

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

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…-show Q&A with VIP ticket holders, Bell shared a story of walking into an expensive new megachurch and feeling “constriction at a deep energetic level.” “Institutions arc towards self-preservation,” he said, while “innovations happen in garages.” During the VIP event, Bell praised the startup mentality and told self-deprecating stories. He somehow managed to come across as the consummate outsider while relating a Deepak Chopra anecdote to a room o…

What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…rant, anti-diversity comments came in the form of a letter he wrote to the New York Mail & Express, 19 April, 1890, and reprinted in the American Sentinel in July of that year. The Sentinel was an Adventist publication, and while they too wanted to see the coming Day of the Lord, they were against the political work of constitutional amendments, calling out Blair’s “spirit of religious despotism and intolerance” and saying he and his cohorts worke…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…ercent of Irish Catholics disagreed with the church’s teaching that “any sexual expression of love between a gay couple is immoral” – only 18 percent agreed. Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin broke the silence Feb. 27 during a meeting at Holy Cross College, the major seminary in Dublin. Catholic teaching on birth control, cohabitation, same-sex relationships and divorce is “disconnected from real-life experience of families — and not by just young…

Carter, Gore, and the New Baptist Covenant

By Bruce Prescott

…litical arena. As he explains it, the IRS revoked Bob Jones University’s tax-exempt status on grounds of racial discrimination—the Carter administration supported the IRS ruling. This inspired fundamentalist televangelists and megachurch preachers to organize in 1979. While Jerry Falwell organized the Moral Majority, others like Adrian Rogers and Charles Stanley organized the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC, with intentions of using the machine…

Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience

By Mary E. Hunt

…” Then the new thing emerges as “the way it is” and life goes on. I fully expect the next pope to be cut out of the same cloth as this man, but there is no stopping the feeling that the pressure to change customs is simply overwhelming. News reports of the papal announcement include the fact that many of the cardinals in the Consistory where Benedict XVI quietly dropped the news did not immediately understand his words because they were in Latin….

Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’

By Cait West

…, as if the institution itself doesn’t create the conditions for abuse to exist. One example of a patriarchal church community that’s been entangled with allegations of abuse for decades is Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, led by patriarchal theologian and pastor Doug Wilson. Vice has reported instances of inappropriate handling of abuse in the Christ Church community, including the case of Natalie Greenfield, a fourteen-year-old girl sexually abus…

Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

…ave suffered a string of defeats in recent years, potentially reigniting culture wars that many liberals had hoped were all but over. It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it is more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan….

Kagan, “Jewish Bolshevism,” and the Legacy of a Nomination

By Gordon D. Newby

…she is an American socialist. She comes from that background. I grew up in New York, she grew up in New York. I’m very familiar with the sort of Jewish socialist culture in New York, which has an enormous pedigree, has done wonderful things in promoting a way of life and developing American society, but at the end of the day is still socialist. This is a slightly disguised echo of the charge that has circulated among anti-Semites at least as early…