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Turn Off, Slow Down, Drop In: The Digital Generation Reinvents the Sabbath

By Elizabeth Drescher

…abbath Manifesto project, includes “Ten Principles” to guide participation: 1) Avoid technology; 2) Connect with loved ones; 3) Nurture your health; 4) Get outside; 5) Avoid commerce; 6) Light candles; 7) Drink wine; 8) Eat bread; 9) Find silence; 10) Give back. But, according the group’s website, the key principle of focus for the day is the avoidance of technology. Tanya Schevitz, National Communications Coordinator for Reboot, however, makes c…

Arcade Fire and the Suburban Soul

By Paul Harvey

…t (yet) be a household name, but where the technological revolutions of the 1990s and early 2000s had their aural counterpart in Radiohead (especially OK Computer), today belongs to Arcade Fire, the Montreal-based band whose symphonic rock addresses big questions in narrative song form. Like all award shows, the Grammys serve as an advertisement for an industry—and the music industry certainly needs it, given the collapse of the market for overpri…

Hajj Journal:
This Cultural Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…is that we ended up on what I called the barakat bus: the bus of blessing. No one ever spoke about our being left behind the first two buses. Ours was the bus where the disabled and mothers with small children boarded first. Our spirit was one of renewal and grace. The other barakat for me was finally getting the company I needed to get through the remainder of the hajj, including, coincidently my own roommate. But first, I had to get through my…

Toward a Zombie Theology

By John W. Morehead

…g on the soul. The title of this episode, “TS-19″ referred to “Test Subject 19,” an unfortunate victim of the zombie infliction who allows scientists to monitor his brain as he goes from human to zombie. The scientist doing the computer recording, Dr. Jenner, narrates the changes he sees as the infection progresses. He makes a distinction between “the first event,” or infection leading to death, and a “second event” or “resurrection event” that ma…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

Full disclosure: The Spirit of Fes Foundation, organizer of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music, paid for my airfare and lodging to attend the festival. They also provided full access to all concerts at no cost. I recently returned from Fes, Morocco, where I attended the 16th Annual Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Almost a decade ago, I fell in love with a recording of some of the concerts from an earlier festival. The CD, B’ismillah, had…

Mormons React to Prop. 8 Ruling

By Joanna Brooks

…in this country, and we urge people on all sides of this issue to act in a spirit of mutual respect and civility toward those with a different opinion.” As we’ve reported here at RD, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, responding to a letter from the Church’s First Presidency read over the pulpits during Sunday meeting in June 2008 and other organizing efforts headed by high-ranking and local Church leaders, contributed the…

Dying in Dirty Places: How to Honor the Dead in the Era of Ecocide

By Ryann Croken

…also a charter boat captain, had had his ashes deposited after his death in 1997. But now, in the post-Deepwater disaster era, there was a problem with this plan: the burial-at-sea site was infested with oil. Kruse’s surviving brother, Frank, explained this complication to reporters at al.com, “We’d like to [scatter his ashes] sooner rather than later, but we really don’t know when we’ll be able to do it because you can’t predict what the oil’s go…

Religious Leaders On Anti-Muslim Frenzy: “Silence Is Not An Option”

By Sarah Posner

…tional Religious Campaign Against Torture called it “a blight on America’s spirit and soul.” Several, including Cizik and Dr. Roy Medley, General Secretary of the American Baptist Churches, noted how their own traditions thrived from the religious freedom guaranteed by the Constitution, a freedom they said people in their own faith traditions now seek to trample for Muslims. David Saperstein, executive director of the Religious Action Center for R…

God is Love: A Desert Prophet’s Message

By Lauri Lebo

…hardy bunch, live here year round, braving temperatures that will climb to 130 degrees. It was 112 when I was there Saturday and Sunday. At the entrance to Slab City is Salvation Mountain, an adobe mountain covered in bright paint and topped with a white cross. Its creator is Leonard Knight, a desert prophet, an Elijah, who says God sent him here 30 years ago and commanded his Chevy dump truck to break down. While Knight was waiting to get his tr…

Ted Haggard on ‘Loveless’ Evangelical Church

By Lauri Lebo

…mility since the scandal which led to his ouster from his pastorship of the 14,000-member Free Life Church and his resignation as head of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals. Or perhaps his ego is still stinging from some of the comments church leadership made about him, a man who was once one of the most powerful evangelical leaders in America. After he had pronounced himself healed of homosexual “urges,” he received much c…