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Meditation is the Multi-Tasker’s Answer

By Andrew Aghapour

…educe stress, and aid in multi-tasking (full text here). This study is the latest in a series linking various meditation techniques to health benefits, such as improved cognitive fluidity, increased density in the part of the brain associated with self-regulation (including dieting), decreased risk for cardiovascular disease in at-risk teens, and increased creativity. During the UW study, three groups of 12-15 human resource managers were monitore…

What Should the Vatican Say to the (Last Generation of) Nuns?

By Peter Manseau

…arley, the theologian and former Yale Divinity School professor who is the latest target of the Vatican’s crackdown against members of the religious communities that once built, staffed, and embodied the spirit of the Church in America. Coming as it does in the wake of the rebuke delivered last month to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the censure of Sister Farley’s book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, is enough to…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…contend with traditional monarchy and modern statehood. But as I watch the latest news from Egypt, that the country’s parliament has been dissolved by a Mubarak-era court, I wonder: Has the revolution ended before it began? (Revolutions are, by definition, simply movements around the wheel: The end is the beginning is the end.) The Islamists made a big mistake in contesting so many seats in this first parliament, for now they have now (among other…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ys and lesbians by the religious right has always been a spurious one, based on religious bias, bad science and outright lies. This latest study is just more of the same….

Homophobic Viral Video of Four-Year-Old From Same Town as Teen Suicide

By Peter Montgomery

The latest YouTube phenom is a young boy who looks to be about 4 years old, singing in front of a church. The congregation stands and cheers when he delivers the line, “Ain’t no homo gonna make it to heaven.” Amid the whooping applause a voice can be heard hollering proudly, “That’s my boy!” Several bloggers have identified the church as the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Greensburg, Indiana. That’s the town of less than 12,000 where Billy Lucas l…

Does Analytic Thinking Erode Religious Belief?

By Andrew Aghapour

…types circulate widely. A Trio of Wacky Experiments Take, for example, the latest Neuroscience-of-Religion news item to make the rounds, this one claiming that critical thinking undermines religious belief. Based on two studies from The Journal of Experimental Psychologies and Science, it has been picked up by The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, and (unsurprisingly) RichardDawkins.net. In the Scientific American article that activated the echo cham…

Bishops Are Out of Touch with the Poor

By Sarah Posner

…On my latest Bloggingheads program, Anthea joined me to discuss sex and religion. In this clip, Anthea critiques the Bishops for living “like princes” while “they don’t give a damn about anybody impoverished:” We also discussed Mona Eltahawy’s “Why Do They Hate Us?” piece, and why Robert Spencer liked it, whether “war on women” is good marketing, and Ross Douthat’s new book. Watch the whole thing here….

The “Religious Freedom” Long Game and the Santorum Surge

By Sarah Posner

On the latest episode of my show on Bloggingheads, World magazine political reporter Emily Belz and I discuss the ongoing battle over contraception coverage and the Rick Santorum surge. Was Darrell Issa’s hearing last week a political winner or loser? For religious conservatives, this battle is not about 2012, but a long game, as mapped out in the Manhattan Declaration. In this clip, Belz and I discuss the religious language Santorum uses, and wh…

We Are All Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…e bishops, was just more than the delicate souls in Rome could stand. This latest mandate to reform the LCWR—indeed to put it out of business—has been in the works for years. In a process that began in 2008, the “doctrinal assessment,” as it is known, was aimed at investigating the “serious doctrinal problems which affect many in Consecrated Life.” In the face of wars in several parts of the world, ecological crises throughout the planet, and seve…

Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ul himself converted to be a follower of Jesus within a year or two at the latest of Jesus’ death—which means that people were telling enough stories about Jesus for Paul to convert a year or two later. All of that shows that the mythicists who claim that Jesus was made up 30 years later in Egypt, or some other claim—that simply can’t be right. We have evidence of people telling stories about Jesus in Palestine within a year or two of the traditi…